Author Archives: Jordan Hatcher

Drafting: Typographical and clerical errors

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 2 August 2011

Another example of a seemingly meaningless contract clause: All typographical and clerical errors are subject to correction. Is this type of clause really necessary? I say no. If it truly is a “typographical or clerical error”, won’t both parties pretty much agree to its interpretation anyway? If they’ll agree anyway, why would you need to [...]

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Rackspace Cloud – you agree to agree with us

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 24 June 2011

Another post in the series, Adventures in IT Contracting. Rackspace’s Cloud Terms of Service has this term: “The event of a dispute between us regarding the interpretation of applicable law or the AUP, Rackspace’s reasonable determination shall control” Nice! So you can’t argue about the interpretation of the law or the AUP, though of course [...]

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International harmonisation for patent exceptions and exclusions

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 16 June 2011

Last month I had the pleasure of attending Prof. Lionel Bently‘s talk on patent exclusions and exceptions as part of UCL’s Current Legal Problems Lecture Series. Some interesting point about the history of patent exclusions and exceptions: Naturally there was some large variation internationally prior to TRIPS. A 1988 WIPO survey of the then 97 [...]

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Tasty links: up to 12 Jun

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 12 June 2011

Stuff you might like to check out on teh internets for 11 Apr through 12 Jun: Artists Don’t Think Piracy Hurts Them Financially, Study Shows | TorrentFreak – "Yesterday, the Dutch Government announced plans to outlaw downloading of all copyrighted material and measures to make it easier to block websites that facilitate copyright infringement. An [...]

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The Open Wireless Movement – the last 100 feet problem

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 13 May 2011

Peter Eckersley at the EFF recently issued a call to action on building an open wireless movement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement My summary — We should encourage sharing of open wireless networks in order to increase the availability of cost-free and ubiquitous internet access. In order to get there we need: Devices that allow easy sharing of your [...]

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Gikii goes Swedish – 6th Gikii in Gothenberg

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 4 May 2011

The 6th GikII conference, a gathering of geeks and law, is to be held at the IT University, Gothenberg, Sweden on June 26-28 2011. Abstracts can be submitted until May 15th 2011. The organisers, Lilian Edwards and Mathias Klang have apparently “already received submissions on, inter alia, the Twitter accounts of Abba, the legal personality [...]

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Tasty links: up to 8 Apr

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 8 April 2011

Stuff you might like to check out on teh internets for 2 Mar through 5 Apr: Google reaches deal with European patent office to translate 50 million patents – The Washington Post – The technical solution to patent language problems is more and more being implemented. IBIL Debate: Do Patents Incentivise or Inhibit Innovation?… – [...]

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Norwegian Open Data License – draft now out

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 1 April 2011

(Via Jonathan and Ton at EPSI), Norway has announced a draft open data license for public sector information, the Norsk lisens for offentlige data (NLOD). This is a big step for open government data in Europe. It’s naturally in Norwegian, however Google Translate to the rescue — full English translation at end of this post. [...]

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Hargreaves review: Submissions by Friday 4 March

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 2 March 2011

The Hargreaves review, more officially known as the “Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth” has published a call for evidence, which calls for a response by 4 March. For more details of the kinds of evidence the review is looking for, please see the call for submissions at: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview/ipreview-c4e/ipreview-c4e-paper.htm

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Tasty links: up to 1 Mar

By Jordan Hatcher | Published: 1 March 2011

Stuff you might like to check out on teh internets for 24 Feb through 1 Mar: Facebook Disconnect – Google Chrome extension gallery – Remove those Facebook Social blocks from websites via Chrome. Digital Signature Law Survey – Useful resource collecting digital signatures related material. Crypto Law Survey – Very useful starting place to get [...]

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