Leftovers

• Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan Dowland: Quake (soundtrack)

  I haven't done that much crate digging recently, but I did stick this on last week: Trent Reznor's soundtrack for Quake, originally released (within the game) in 1996, and finally issued for the first time independently in 2020.

• James G ☛ Building an interactive tool to generate image maps

  Image maps let you make images where you can click on different regions to open web pages. For example, you could have an image map of a whiteboard with sticky notes where every sticky note linked to a document about that note. I use image maps across my site, such as on my explore page where I let you explore my blog by clicking items on my desk (there is even a musical easter egg on that page!).

• James G ☛ Plurality of community

  Within the indie web community, the terms "indie web", "IndieWeb", "small web", "fediverse", among others are used almost interchangeably to express yearning for a people-focused web: a web where you have the freedom to create without large platforms having undue control over how you create and share online.

  While people who may consider themselves as part of the "indie web", "IndieWeb", "small web", or "fediverse" have different views on particular topics, there is a shared vision. Within each of them, there are communities that exist to help people get started with taking control of their digital identity, from websites dedicated to helping you get set up on the fediverse to guides on how to set up your own personal websites.

• Hackaday ☛ VFD Tube Calculator Shows Off Wide Array Of Skills

  With all the tools and services available to us these days, it’s hard to narrow down a set of skills that the modern hacker or maker should have. Sure, soldering is a pretty safe bet, and most projects now require at least a little bit of code. But the ability to design 3D printable parts has also become increasingly important, and you could argue that knowledge of PCB design and production is getting up there as well. With home laser cutters on the rise, a little 2D CAD wouldn’t hurt either. So on, and so on.

• Hackaday ☛ Ham Busts The Myth Of Ground

  Everyone who deals with electronics knows that grounding is important. Your house has a copper rod in the ground. But [Kristen K6WX] has news: the idea of ground is kind of a myth. She explained at a talk at the recent ARRL National Convention, and if you didn’t make it, you can watch it in the video below.

• Education

  • Pro Publica ☛ Illinois School District’s Use of Police Tickets Discriminated Against Black Students, Complaint Says

    Two national civil rights groups accused Illinois’ third-largest school district on Tuesday of relying on police to handle school discipline, unlawfully targeting Black students with tickets, arrests and other discipline.

    In a 25-page complaint against Rockford Public Schools, filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the National Center for Youth Law and the MacArthur Justice Center said that Rockford police officers have been “addressing minor behaviors that should be handled as an educational matter by parents, teachers, and school leaders — and not as a law enforcement matter by police officers.”

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Computex 2024 Day One Wrap-Up: defective chip maker Intel Lunar Lake gets official, handheld gaming consoles rule, and Arm seeks PC domination

    Computex 2024 coverage continues with a big focus on Hey Hi (AI) and handheld gaming

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Cooler Master shows off programmable, mini arcade machine that sits on your desk

    The Retro Display has a tiny, full HD display, along with a joystick and buttons.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel CEO says China must make its own chips if sanctions are too restrictive, points to EUV as key cutoff point

    Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told Tom's Hardware during a question and answer session at Computex 2024 that China must make its own processors if US sanctions on the latest chips become too restrictive.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ 2800W Super Flower PSU boasts four 12V-2x6 power connectors — good for quad GPU setups used for Hey Hi (AI) training, not gaming

    Super Flower showed off a 2800W PSU with four 12V-2x6 connectors at its Computex 2024 booth. That's enough for running four RTX 4080 cards at the same time, though it would be for compute and Hey Hi (AI) purposes rather than for gaming.

  • Hackaday ☛ The Amiga We All Wanted In 1993

    To be an Amiga fan during the dying days of the hardware platform back in the mid 1990s was to have a bleak existence indeed. Commodore had squandered what was to us the best computer ever with dismal marketing and a series of machines that were essentially just repackaged versions of the original. Where was a PCI Amiga with fast processors, we cried!

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia tops list of countries with highest microplastics consumption: Study

    More than 50 per cent of Malaysia’s microplastic consumption was from fish consumption.

  • Reason ☛ Anthony Fauci Gives Misleading, Evasive Answers About NIH-Funded Research at Wuhan Lab

    At yesterday's congressional hearing, the former NIAID director played word games and shifted blame in an effort to dismiss credible claims that his agency funded work that caused the pandemic.

  • Reason ☛ COVID Accountability Never

    Plus: Cryogenic freezing, masking for robberies, Trump surrenders his guns, and more...

  • Off Guardian ☛ Sars-Cov2 Origins – “Gain of Function” or “Claim of Function”?

    “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” Richard P. Feynman

    A thorough review of the available evidence suggests that the emergence of a novel engineered virus is the least likely explanation for the event known as the ‘covid pandemic’.

  • Hackaday ☛ Pasteurisation: Probably Why You Survived Childhood

    There’s an oft-quoted maxim that youngsters growing up on farms have a much stronger immune system than those growing up in cities. The idea is that they are exposed to far more dirt and eat food much closer to the field than their urban cousins. Without the help of a handy microbiologist or epidemiologist it’s difficult to judge its veracity, but personal experience suggests that the bit about dirt may be true at least.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Press Gazette ☛ ITN signs deal to protect video archive from Hey Hi (AI) and license content

    Partnership with Open Origins sees ITN as a launch partner for a new Hey Hi (AI) licensing marketplace.

  • Tedium ☛ Quadruple-Booked

    As weird as this sounds, it is clearly cut from the same cloth as a similar idea just added to Windows called Recall. The tool is designed to give you a photographic memory by tracking literally everything you’ve done on your PC, which sounds like a feature that someone who is quadruple-booked in lots of meetings would love to have access to, as it would allow them to remember a lot of information. The problem is, most people who use Windows are not, in fact, CEOs, and they do not need this level of memory in their machines, and the result has been called out as something of a “privacy nightmare.”

  • Security Week ☛ Former Proprietary Chaffbot Company Employees Lead Push to Protect Whistleblowers Flagging Artificial Intelligence Risks

    A group of OpenAI’s current and former workers is calling for Hey Hi (AI) firms to protect whistleblowing employees who flag safety risks about Hey Hi (AI) technology.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ In public letter, former Proprietary Chaffbot Company researchers urge increased transparency on Hey Hi (AI) risks

    A group of machine learning researchers today released a public letter urging the tech industry to develop advanced artificial intelligence models in a more transparent manner. The letter, titled “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence,” has 13 signatories.

  • New York Times ☛ OpenAI Whistle-Blowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture

    A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.

  • The Strategist ☛ The high cost of GPT-4o

    With the launch of GPT-4o, Proprietary Chaffbot Company has once again shown itself to be the world’s most innovative artificial-intelligence company.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • New York Times ☛ Senator Menendez Enjoyed a Steakhouse Dinner, as the F.B.I. Watched

      At Senator Robert Menendez’s bribery trial, an investigator described surveilling diners at a Washington restaurant. Among them were Mr. Menendez and an Egyptian official.

    • EFF ☛ Car Makers Shouldn’t Be Selling Our Driving History to Data Brokers and Insurance Companies

      And now we know: your car insurance carrier might know it, too.

      In a recent New York Times article, Kashmir Hill reported how everyday moments in your car like these create a data footprint of your driving habits and routine that is, in some cases, being sold to insurance companies. Collection often happens through so-called “safe driving” programs pre-installed in your vehicle through an internet-connected service on your car or a connected car app. Real-time location tracking often starts when you download an app on your phone or tap “agree” on the dash screen before you drive your car away from the dealership lot.

      Technological advancements in cars have come a long way since General Motors launched OnStar in 1996. From the influx of mobile data facilitating in-car navigation, to the rise of telematics in the 2010s, cars today are more internet-connected than ever. This enables, for example, delivery of emergency warnings, notice of when you need an oil change, and software updates. Recent research predicts that by 2030, more than 95% of new passenger cars will contain some form of internet-connected service and surveillance.

• Defence/Aggression

  • RFERL ☛ Iranian Officer Killed in Suspected Israeli Air Strikes In Syria

    An Iranian officer described as a military adviser has been killed in suspected Israeli air strikes near the Syrian city of Aleppo, nearly two months after the Islamic republic warned it would retaliate against attacks on its interests.

  • Latvia ☛ Nordic Investment Bank can now back defense projects

    The Nordic Investment Bank – of which Latvia is one of the shareholders – said June 4 it had changed its rules so that it can now invest in military and defense projects, though not weapons and munitions.

  • teleSUR ☛ Donald Trump Looks to Tiktok to Woo Voters

    His emergence on Fentanylware (TikTok) comes as his own social control media platform, Truth Social, faces pressure.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ TikTok moves to block exploit after high-profile account takeovers

    TikTok has reportedly made moves to block a zero-day or previously undiscovered exploit that resulted in several high-profile accounts belonging to companies and celebrities getting hijacked over the last week. The first reported account takeover was a CNN account last week.

  • RFA ☛ US defense secretary visits Cambodia amid concern about China

    Lloyd Austin will try to mend ties but little is expected from the defense chief’s visit, analysts say.

  • RFA ☛ Philippines denies its troops pointed guns at Chinese coast guard personnel

    Manila accuses China of trying to interfere with an air-drop of supplies intended for Filipino marines.

  • ADF ☛ Analysts: Ghana Faces Security Vulnerability at Northern Border

    With extremists sowing chaos all around it, Ghana remains an island of calm. However, observers say conditions in the country’s northern regions may put that stability at risk.

  • JURIST ☛ Canada intelligence agency says parliamentarians engaged in foreign interference activities

    Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) published a report on Monday stating that some parliamentarians collaborated with foreign governments to engage in “foreign interference activities.” Evidence the NSICOP gathered suggests that these unnamed parliamentarians engaged in interference activities as “semi-witting or witting participants.”

  • The Straits Times ☛ US says response from Hamas on ceasefire proposal still awaited

    WASHINGTON - A response from Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel's ceasefire proposal that U.S. President Joe Biden revealed on Friday is still being awaited, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday.

  • ADF ☛ Iranian Arms Fuel Destruction on Both Sides of Sudan’s Conflict

    Images recently published online reveal that both sides in Sudan’s yearlong conflict have armed their fighters with Iranian anti-tank missiles. The exact source of the Saeghe anti-tank guided missile system (ATGMS) remains unclear.

  • ADF ☛ As SAMIM Winds Down, Tanzania Remains in Mozambique to Guard Against Terrorism

    As members of the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) begin to withdraw from the Cabo Delgado region, Tanzania is developing a strategy to protect itself from resurgent terrorism just over its southern border.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • RFERL ☛ Navalny's Birthday Marked In Russia Despite Official Warnings

      Supporters and relatives of Aleksei Navalny on June 4 are marking what would have been the late Russian opposition leader's 48th birthday at events organized abroad, while in Russia people are paying their respects at his grave in Moscow.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Vladimir Putin just tacitly admitted Crimea is not really part of Russia

      Russia claims to have annexed five Ukrainian provinces but refuses to extend security red lines to these regions. This highlights the pragmatic political realities behind Putin's talk of historic conquests, writes Peter Dickinson.

    • Meduza ☛ Meet Clicker Pulse New leaked documents show how the Kremlin tracks Russians’ reactions to Putin’s speeches — and what it does with its findings — Meduza

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong to launch high-speed sleeper train services to Beijing, Shanghai on June 15

      High-speed sleeper train services will begin operating between Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai from June 15, with Chief Executive John Lee urging all sectors of society to “seize the opportunities” that stemmed from enhanced connectivity with mainland China.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Brazil is buying lots of Chinese EVs. Will that continue?

      Brazilian imports of Chinese battery electric vehicles (BEVs) surged in 2023 as Chinese automakers sought—and continue to seek— global markets for their BEV surpluses. However, increasing protectionism in Brazil may force China to find new welcoming markets in other Latin American and Asian countries.

    • Hackaday ☛ The Dyke Delta: A DIY Flying Wing Fits Four

      The world of experimental self-built aircraft is full of oddities, but perhaps the most eye-catching of all is the JD-2 “Dyke Delta” designed and built by [John Dyke] in the 1960s. Built to copy some of the 1950’s era innovations in delta-style jet aircraft, the plane is essentially a flying wing that seats four.

    • DeSmog ☛ Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

    • DeSmog ☛ Climate Denier Nigel Farage Standing in Seat at Risk of Sea Level Rises and Flooding

    • DeSmog ☛ A Research Duel Heats up Amid High-Stakes Decision on LNG Exports

    • DeSmog ☛ Far-Right Presence Divides Farmers’ Protest Ahead of EU Elections

• Finance

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Katherine Tai on how US and EU trade approaches must ‘evolve’ to deal with China and other global challenges

    The US trade representative said that the United States and EU should establish a community of democracies to adapt their trade approaches to a changed world.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Pro Publica ☛ What Idaho’s Republican Primary Says About America’s Culture Wars

    For years, Idaho has been at the vanguard of the culture wars that are playing out in conservative states across the country.

    It was the first state to attempt to restrict transgender girls and women from competing on women’s athletic teams, passing legislation that became a model for states across the country. It was among the first to explicitly ban “critical race theory” from public schools and target diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in public institutions. And the Idaho Freedom Foundation, a far-right Idaho political group, took an early lead in a nationwide campaign to remove books from libraries based on their content.

  • LRT ☛ Lithuanian parliament backs findings in ‘whistleblower case’, deems president vulnerable

    Lithuanian lawmakers on Tuesday endorsed the conclusions of the temporary Seimas commission that looked into the State Security Department’s (VSD) whistleblower case.

  • BIA Net ☛ Tensions mount as pro-Kurdish mayor in Hakkari replaced

    Mehmet Sıddık Akış, the co-mayor of the Hakkari province and member of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, was arrested by security forces and replaced by a government-appointed trustee.

  • JURIST ☛ Biden signs executive order barring US asylum claims for illegal border crossers

    JURIST Editorial Director Ingrid Burke Friedman contributed to this report. US President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday barring asylum claims from anyone who crosses the US-Mexico border illegally.

  • Democracy Now ☛ “More Than a Symbolic Victory”: Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President

    In a historic election, Claudia Sheinbaum has become the first woman elected president of Mexico. Sheinbaum is a climate scientist, former mayor of Mexico City and close ally of sitting president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “She owes a lot to women’s movements in Mexico,” says Laura Carlsen, director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies. “This is more than a symbolic victory. What it means is that there’s an example for younger women that women can be leaders.” Carlsen says feminist movements are hopeful Sheinbaum’s administration will take on Mexico’s high rates of gender-based violence and femicide. Meanwhile, to the north, President Biden is signing an executive order today that would temporarily shut down the U.S.-Mexico border after asylum requests made by migrants surpass 2,500 a day, and Mexico’s cooperation will be key in enforcing the measure.

  • RFERL ☛ Georgia's Ruling Party Initiates Bill Cracking Down On LGBT Rights

    The speaker of Georgia's parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, said on June 4 that the South Caucasus nation's ruling Georgian Dream party has initiated a bill "on family values and the protection of minors," as well as amendments to 18 laws that would limit LGBT rights.

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ Judge Noreika Joins Derek Hines in Selective Adherence to the Laws of Physics

    After agreeing with prosecutors that nothing the gun shop employees did after Hunter filled out the gun form was material to this case, Judge Maryellen Noreika then permitted prosecutors to submit evidence from months after his possession of the gun: sort of a heads the government wins, tails the defendants loses rule of time-space continuum.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Hunter Biden is now on trial in Delaware. What’s next?

    Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is accused of and on trial for violating federal gun laws in 2018 by making false statements regarding his substance use when he purchased a firearm.

  • Democracy Now ☛ El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump

    Self-described as the “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele was sworn in Saturday for a second term as president of El Salvador in a move widely denounced as illegitimate. El Salvador’s constitution limits presidents to one term and prohibits consecutive reelections. However, a 2021 Constitutional Court ruling approved Bukele’s reelection bid after his allies in the Salvadoran National Assembly illegally removed all five magistrates from the court and replaced them with Bukele supporters. Democracy Now! speaks with Roman Gressier, a reporter in San Salvador covering Central American politics for El Faro English, about Bukele’s popularity during his dramatic crackdown on gangs, the surveillance of journalists and human rights organizations, and the “parallel U.S. delegations” to Bukele’s inauguration from both the Biden administration and a cast of right-wing, Trump-aligned characters despite growing condemnation of Bukele’s authoritarian rule.

  • Democracy Now ☛ A Setback for the “Cult of Modi”? Indian Opposition Faring Surprisingly Well in Early Election Count

    Preliminary results from the world’s largest election suggest Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP party will have a reduced majority in Parliament, with the opposition alliance known by the acronym INDIA doing better than expected. During India’s six-week election, voters and poll workers endured deadly heat waves, and vocal critic Arvind Kejriwal was sent to prison on corruption charges. This comes as Modi’s opponents have accused the prime minister of using hate speech after he described Muslims in India as “infiltrators.” Meanwhile, journalists who are critical of Modi have been expelled, investigated and raided by his government. The “massive reduction” in power, despite holding “one of the most undemocratic elections,” demonstrates “the anti-Muslim rhetoric has not quite worked for Modi,” says Indian journalist Rana Ayyub in New Dehli. “This election result, it might still give Modi a third term, but it has punctured the hubris around Modi.”

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Latvia ☛ KNAB reminds public to be on guard for election deepfakes

      In the last days before the European Parliament elections, the emergence of deepfakes for or against a candidate cannot be ruled out, law enforcement officials say. If you spot artificial campaign material, you should report it to the State Police or the State Security Service, Latvian Radio reports.

    • Press Gazette ☛ How Hey Hi (AI) could save investigative journalists time and test their hunches [Ed: Nope, it can only add a lot of misinformation and cause it to spread via human authors]

      AI expert claims agentic Hey Hi (AI) could rejuvenate small scale investigative reporting.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ In Pictures: Patriotic carnival takes place at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary

    A patriotic carnival organised by pro-Beijing groups in Hong Kong continued to attract visitors to Victoria Park on Tuesday, the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, with police guarding the venue that was once the site of the city’s annual vigils to mourn the incident.

  • France24 ☛ China cracks down on attempts to mark 35 years since Tiananmen massacre

    Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing's Tiananmen Square as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

  • JURIST ☛ Hong Kong police arrest eighth sedition suspect days before Tiananmen Square anniversary

    The National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force arrested a 62-year-old man on Monday for alleged sedition. Together with the seven suspects arrested on May 31, a total of eight arrested suspects were allegedly involved in committing sedition, days before the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.

  • RFA ☛ Tiananmen Square massacre protest torch passes to the next generation

    Veterans of the 1989 movement want it to lead to a ‘peaceful, democratic’ revolution in China.

  • RFA ☛ Mothers of Tiananmen Square massacre vow victims 'will not be forgotten'

    Police out in force in Beijing and Hong Kong, gatherings banned at Chinese universities.

  • RFA ☛ US lawmakers remember Tiananmen Square massacre

    Congress has long stood with Chinese dissidents, the lawmakers said, even if some past US presidents have not.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong 47: Ex-law scholar Benny Tai among 4 due in court for mitigation on June 25

    Four pre-democracy figures in the landmark national security case involving 47 Hong Kong democrats will appear in court later this month for mitigation, according to the judiciary’s website. The court date was scheduled days after the High Court last Thursday convicted 14 former activists and lawmakers of conspiring to commit subversion.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Media manifestos 2024: Labour pledges to ban oligarch SLAPPs

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Facebook deleting local news posts and labelling them as spam

    Independent local publishers are reliant on Facebook (Farcebook) for distribution.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • RFA ☛ Protesters aim to stop work at Chinese copper mine in Myanmar

    The project supports Myanmar’s military and has displaced residents from three villages, strike leaders said.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Hackaday ☛ Tunneling TCP By File Server

    You want to pass TCP traffic from one computer to another, but there’s a doggone firewall in the way. Can they both see a shared file? Turns out, that’s all you need. Well, that and some software from [fiddyschmitt].

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Public Knowledge ☛ U.S. v. Google: What’s Next? The Need for Effective Remedies [Ed: There is a critical lack of disclosure of a conflict of interest here; Microsoft staff is inside the Board]

  The government argues that the courts must rule Google’s control over defaults as anticompetitive, and that this control must be dismantled to achieve healthy competition in the search and search advertising space. The question remains: How do we get there?

• Bryan Lunduke ☛ The Tech Industry Hates You

  White? Male? Straight? Religious? Conservative? Centrist? Big Tech, Tech Foundations, and Open Source Projects hate your guts.

• Reason ☛ The Best of Reason: The Mirage of China's I.P. Theft

  As allegations of intellectual property theft swirl, a deeper look reveals a tale of phony numbers and twisted data.

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Patently-O Bits and Bytes [Ed: "Patent number 12 million issued on Tuesday, June 4, 2024" because they stopped caring about legitimacy or quality of patents, they just prioritise money]

    Patent number 12 million issued on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to Pacific Biosciences of California.  The patent monopoly covers particular labeled nucleotide analogs that include an avidin protein for use in analyzing enzymatic reactions and molecular recognition events, such as single-molecule real-time nucleic acid sequencing.

  • JUVE ☛ Bardehle secures use of VAR technology for Uefa at the European Championships [Ed: Conflates patent monopoly with something else]

    The local division Hamburg sees no reason to prohibit Uefa and Kinexon from using its technology in video-assistant referee (VAR).

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ 1 minute design patent monopoly survey [Ed: Asking only "the choir" or patent profiteers, not the public at large (the real stakeholders)]

    Join us today online for a discussion of design patents after the Federal Circuit’s upheaval in LKQ v. GM. Meanwhile – please answer my 1-minute survey about the electronic door lock design obviousness rejection: [...]

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ The UPC strategies of the top 5 most active claimant firms [Ed: Pure spam for an illegal and unconstitutional UPC, which this site was paid to promote, lie for, and not legitimise post hoc]

      Sometimes, investments secure a firm’s pole position. Bardehle Pagenberg is among those firms that invested heavily in their lawyer teams before the UPC opened its doors.

    • EPO Touts Successful First Year for Unitary Patent Program Despite UPC Technical Issues [Ed: Unitary Patent is illegal and EPO is corruption. Watchtroll is happy to promote both.]

      On June 1, one year after the date when patents with unitary effect became effective in the European Union (EU), the European Patent Office (EPO) announced that it had registered more than 27,500 unitary patents, representing about 25% of all European patents granted over the past year. The EPO also reported that the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has received a total of 373 case filings since that court first became operational one year ago, although news reports indicate that technical issues have caused problems for some parties appearing before the EU’s newest patent monopoly court.

    • Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Patent case: AIM Sport Development AG vs. Supponor, UPC [Ed: This 'court' is still illegal and unconstitutional; its very existence jeopardises the EU]

      Proceedings on the merits and proceedings on provisional measures may be lodged separately before the UPC, but it may also be the case that as part of the infringement case provisional measures are requested.

  • Software Patents

    • Unified Patents ☛ Acacia entity, Monarch, networking patent monopoly found invalid

      On May 23, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,451,845, owned and asserted by Monarch Networking Solutions, LLC, an Acacia Research Corp. entity.  The ‘845 patent monopoly relates to converting data packets between the IPv4 and IPv6 domains.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential No. 9: TTAB Denies HOLLYWOOD HOTEL Summary Judgment Motion, Finding No Claim Preclusion

    The Board denied Applicant Zarco Hotels' FRCP 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss this opposition to registration of the mark HOLLYWOOD HOTEL for hotel and restaurant services, ruling that claim preclusion, based on an earlier opposition, did not apply. The Board first construed the motion as one for summary judgment and then concluded that Opposers' claims of likelihood of confusion and geographical descriptiveness were not decided in the prior opposition (which was sustained on the ground of nonownership) [TTABlogged here], and therefore those claims could be brought in this proceeding. Hollywood Casinos, LLC and Penn Entertainment, Inc. v. Zarco Hotels Inc., 2024 USPQ2d 985 (TTAB 2024) [precedential].