Leftovers

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ NanoPi R76S dual 2.5GbE SBC and router supports up to 16GB LPDDR5, M.2 WiFi module, HDMI 2.0 video output

    We just wrote about the NanoPi R3S LTS dual gigabit Ethernet SBC and router with HDMI output and a speaker connector last week, but FriendlyELEC is back again with the similar NanoPi R76S equipped with two 2.5GbE ports, HDMI video output, an M.2 socket for a WiFi/Bluetooth SDIO module, and a more powerful Rockchip RK3576 octa-core SoC coupled with up to 16GB LPDDR5. Like its predecessors, the NanoPi R76S is offered as a bare board or with a metal enclosure. >

  • Bisco ☛ Birger Schacht: Debian on Framework 12

    For some time now I was looking for a device to replace my Thinkpad. Its a 14" device, but thats to big for my taste. I am a big fan of small notebooks, so when frame.work announced their 12" laptop, I took the chance and ordered one right away.

    I was in one of the very early batches and got my package a couple of days ago. When ordering, I chose the DIY edition, but in the end there was not that much of DIY to do: I had to plug in the storage and the memory, put the keyboard in and tighten some screws. There are very detailed instructions with a lot of photos that tell you which part to put where, which is nice.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ LG Innotek to slim down smartphones by replacing solder balls with copper posts

    LG Innotek introduced Copper Post packaging technology, which replaces traditional solder balls in semiconductor substrates, enabling slimmer, denser, and cooler smartphone designs.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Federal News Network ☛ VA briefly approved crisis line employees for deferred resignation, before walking back decision

    A VA spokesperson says “only VA employees whose departure will not negatively impact VA health care or benefits will be approved for the DRP.”

  • European Commission ☛ Commission registers European Citizens' Initiative on the right to food

    European Commission Press release Brussels, 08 Jul 2025 Today, the European Commission registered the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Food is a Human Right for All!

  • JURIST ☛ Medical groups sue US health department over new COVID-19 vaccine policy

    Several medical organizations filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as other government officials on Monday, alleging that a new department directive is unlawful and harms the physician-patient relationship, among other claims.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ So far, so close: Acclaimed Hong Kong play puts diaspora and belonging back on centre stage in West Kowloon re-run

    Having left Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ah Yuen is suddenly back in her home city because of her father’s unexpected death.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China probes former Wuhan mayor who presided over Covid response

    Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into the former mayor of the central city of Wuhan, Beijing’s top anti-graft bodies said Tuesday. Zhou Xianwang served as the top Communist Party official in the Chinese metropolis from 2018 until early 2021, playing a major role in the handling of the first known outbreak of Covid-19.

• Proprietary

  • Windows Central ☛ Report: Halo Studios was hit by Microsoft and Xbox layoffs, too — dev says nobody "is really happy about the quality" of the next game

    Last week saw brutal layoffs at the Windows and Xbox publisher Microsoft, with the company letting over 9,000 people go. Its Xbox division was impacted significantly by the cuts, with Rare's Everwild game cancelled, Perfect Dark scrapped as well, and its developer The Initiative shuttered. Since then, it's come out that multiple other studios were affected as well — and according to a new report, Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) was one of them.

  • Microsoft applied to hire 6,000 foreign workers just before mass layoffs

    As Microsoft announced a fourth round of mass layoffs this year, data reveals the tech giant had applied for thousands of skilled foreign worker visas, raising questions about corporate hiring practices, workforce displacement, and the future of domestic tech employment.

  • Washington Examiner ☛ Microsoft applied to fill thousands of foreign worker positions in months before mass layoffs

    Microsoft is laying off about 9,000 employees after applying to fill thousands of foreign worker positions in the months leading up to the mass layoffs, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data.

    DOL quarterly statistics show that Microsoft submitted 4,776 labor condition applications, a prerequisite for filing H-1B visa petitions, between September and March, indicating to the U.S. government that it intends to fill 14,181 positions with foreign workers this fiscal year. The filings, however, include extensions to existing employment (3,680), petition amendments (285), and transfers (487), not just new H-1B hires, although the number of new foreign worker hires (9,738) was still high.

• Pseudo-Open Source

  • Openwashing

    • Open Source Initiative ☛ Building digital public goods: Reflections from UN Open Source Week 2025 [Ed: Microsoft lobbying front group spreads the mindless, ruinous hype of "hey hi"]

      The UN’s Open Source Week in NYC brought people together from around the world to discuss the promise of Open Source and how it can be leveraged to build sustainable digital public goods and infrastructure. The week included side events focused on openness and Hey Hi (AI) and two full days at the UN dedicated to Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and Digital Public Infrastructure.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Cellphones confiscated in Correctional Centre raid

      Following intelligence indicating that a group of inmates at Baviaanspoort Correctional Centre were in possession of mobile phones and actively scamming members of the public, the National Commissioner of Correctional Services, Makgothi Samuel Thobakgale, led a specialised team in a targeted operation.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man says South Korea should be paying for its own defence

    A day earlier, Mr Convicted Felon said he planned to impose a 25 per cent tariff on South Korean imports.

  • France24 ☛ From Aleppo in ruins to the Deir ez-Zor's last bridge: Syria seven months after Assad’s fall

    It has been seven months since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in Syria, thrusting the country into a new era after 54 years of rule by the Assad family. France 24’s Wassim Nasr was able to travel across Syria over a ten-day period to see how the country has changed and the challenges that still remain. He not only visited major cities such as Homs, Damascus and Aleppo, of course, but also very difficult-to-access areas including Manbij and even Deir ez-Zor, off limits to most reporters since Assad’s fall.

  • New York Times ☛ How the Assad Regime Built a Mass Grave in Syria

    Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to understand how the Assad regime hid the bodies of the people it had made disappear.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Europe has ideas for how to provide for its own security. The US should take notice.

    Washington should recognize and embrace Europe's fresh ideas for how to provide for its own security, such as the European Defence Mechanism.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ Treasury slaps sanctions on people, companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes

    A North Korean man was the focus of Tuesday’s announcement, which also included a Russian man, his companies and North Korean firms.

  • France24 ☛ French nuclear waste secretly sent to Armenia? No.

    An artificial intelligence-powered website impersonating France 24 and its journalists published a hoax claiming that France was exporting nuclear waste to Armenia. This hoax was picked up by pro-Russian and Azerbaijani accounts, as well as the scientific journal Science & Vie, which acknowledged the "mistake" to our editorial staff. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Armenia charges two top opposition politicians, readies indictment against another

    Authorities in Armenia indicted two senior politicians from a pro-Russian opposition coalition for corruption-related crimes on Tuesday, as prosecutors prepared to file charges against another MP.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ Independent Russian election-monitoring group Golos shuts down after co-chair is sentenced to prison — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian FSB raids Syktyvkar cultural center in treason case amid wave of searches targeting journalists and activists — Meduza

    • LRT ☛ A journalist in jail: freed former RFE/RL reporter recalls Belarus prison ordeal

      Journalist Ihar Karnei was in a good mood when he set out for the store one Monday morning two years ago after a “happy” summer weekend in the country visiting friends along with his wife, Ina.

    • Meduza ☛ NATO’s last chance: Director Ilya Naishuller sends U.S. and U.K. leaders on a wild road trip through Belarus and Poland in ‘Heads of State’ — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Moscow police detain hundreds of migrants and deport more than 30 after raiding hostels and prayer houses — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian lawmakers overhaul benefits for student mothers, tying payments to subsistence minimums — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian lawmakers vote to restore Federal Security Service’s right to operate its own jails — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘The Rotenbergs invested heavily in him’ Anti-corruption expert Ilya Shumanov unpacks the political rise and sudden demise of Russia’s ex-Transportation Minister Roman Starovoit — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘We were shocked’: Kremlin declines to comment on minister’s apparent suicide — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russia bans Yale University as ‘undesirable organization,’ citing Navalny’s attendance — Meduza

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Putin is winning the drone war as Russia overwhelms Ukraine’s defenses

      Russia is now winning the drone war against Ukraine thanks to a massive increase in domestic drone production and a series of technological upgrades, writes Maksym Beznosiuk. This is enabling Putin to dramatically escalate the bombardment of Ukrainian cities.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ ‘Death is our business’

      In Season 2, Episode 12 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by the journalist John Lechner to discuss his new book, Death is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare.

    • RFERL ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Ups Criticism Of Putin As He Releases Weapons, Considers Sanctions

      US President The Insurrectionist has expressed growing frustration with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as the war in Ukraine drags on, saying he is considering imposing new sanctions on Moscow.

    • RFERL ☛ Russian Lawmakers Confirm New Transport Minister Amid Questions Over Starovoit Death

      Russian lawmakers approved a new transport minister, one day after the body of his predecessor was found with a gunshot wound hours after being sacked by President Vladimir Putin.

    • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Frustration With Putin Preceded Resumption of U.S. Weapons to Ukraine

      Hell Toupée lashed out at the Russian leader on Tuesday, signaling a change in his posture toward the conflict.

    • New York Times ☛ The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for Mass Federal Firings

      Also, Convicted Felon accused Putin of duplicity. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

    • New York Times ☛ The Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner

      Court proceedings revealed how a criminal gang in Britain was directed to target Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a dissident Russian who owns Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair.

    • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Uses Cabinet Meeting to Vent About Epstein, Putin and Powell

      The president held forth in public for 104 minutes, using a cabinet meeting to express much that is on his mind.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Cautious optimism in Ukraine as Convicted Felon vows to send more weapons

      Ukrainians have welcomed US President The Insurrectionist’s July 7 announcement that he intends to provide Ukraine with more weapons, but many remain deeply cynical over the longer term prospects for continued US support, writes Peter Dickinson.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ New findings: Russian aerial attacks amount to extermination and persecution

      On June 25, 2025, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and Strategic Litigation Project, together with the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School (IHRC), hosted a hybrid panel discussion on new findings and policy implications surrounding Russian aerial attacks against Ukraine over the last three years.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ For the US and the free world, security demands a resilience-first approach

      This report is the foundational document of the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative and outlines a bold vision to embed resilience as a core pillar of US and allied security. As crises compound, this report calls for investing across individual, institutional, and international levels of resilience to withstand, adapt, and thrive amid disruption. 

    • France24 ☛ John Bolton deems Convicted Felon's lack of 'philosophy', and coherent policy, 'disconcerting to US allies'

      Dihydroxyacetone Man’s volatile foreign policy fuses trade wars with multiple quests for transactional peace deals. While levying tariffs on allies and rivals alike, he’s actively pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize, citing efforts in the Middle East, Ukraine-Russia, Congo-Rwanda, and India-Pakistan. Israeli PM Netanyahu is the latest to back him, submitting a nomination letter to the Nobel Committee. For in-depth insight and a deeper perspective on Convicted Felon’s second-term and overall foreign policy strategy, FRANCE 24’s François Picard is pleased to welcome John Bolton, attorney, diplomat, political consultant, and former National Security Advisor and US Ambassador to the UN.

    • France24 ☛ French President Macron says Europe will never abandon Ukraine

      Europe will never abandon Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the British parliament on Tuesday, adding that Britain and France will work with the 'coalition of the willing' until the last minute to secure a ceasefire. FRANCE 24's Benedicte Paviot reports from London.

    • RFERL ☛ US To 'Send Some More Weapons' To Ukraine, Convicted Felon Says In Apparent Reversal Of Pentagon Policy

      US President The Insurrectionist on July 7 said the United States will send more weapons to Ukraine to help the war-torn country defend itself against Russian attacks.

    • New York Times ☛ Macron’s U.K. State Visit: Migrants and the War in Ukraine Are on the Agenda

      President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Britain, which began Tuesday, is heavy on pageantry. But both he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer hope for practical results.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukrainians Are Cautiously Optimistic After Convicted Felon Says U.S. Will Send More Military Aid

      After Hell Toupée’s announcement that the United States would send more military aid, some were grateful, others were skeptical, mindful of his seesawing policy.

    • France24 ☛ Replay: France's Macron addresses British parliament on state visit

      French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the British parliament on Tuesday as he embarks on a state visit of the UK - the first by a French president since 2008. His speech touched on Ukraine, the Middle East and migration. Rewatch it in full above.

    • New York Times ☛ Land Mines, a Cold War Horror, Could Return to Fortify Europe’s Borders

      Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to strengthen their defenses against any Russian attack.

    • New York Times ☛ Wednesday Briefing: Rare Earths, Made in Europe?

      Plus, Sweden’s secret to well-being.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Confirms Death of Minister Hours After Kremlin Dismissed Him

      Roman V. Starovoyt, the transport minister, had governed the Kursk region before Ukrainian forces occupied part of it in 2024.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine Turns to Fishing Nets to Catch Russian Drones

      With their dense mesh, the nets can tangle drone propellers. It’s a simple but effective countermeasure that reflects how low-tech means can blunt high-tech weapons in the war.

    • ADF ☛ African Women Lured to Produce Russian War Drones

      A Ukrainian drone in late April hit the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan region, where kamikaze drones are made by factory workers, many of them women from Africa.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukrainian Troops Struggle to Hold the Line on the Eastern Front

      Kyiv is defending Kostiantynivka from Russian drone attacks. The embattled city is a gateway to Ukraine’s last major defense in the Donetsk region.

    • Meduza ☛ Trump says Washington will send more weapons to Ukraine — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Three dead after Ukrainian drones strike Kursk city beach — Meduza

    • Atlantic Council ☛ What really came out of this year’s BRICS summit?

      Russia’s and China’s presidents were absent. But there were nonetheless several notable outcomes from the recent BRICS summit in Brazil.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Braw in Foreign Policy on gray-zone aggression from Moscow in Estonia

      On April 16, Transatlantic Security Initiative senior fellow Elisabeth Braw was published by Foreign Policy in an article detailing Russia’s removal of buoys that had been placed to mark the border between Russia and Estonia in the Narva River.

• Environment

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong public does not want waste charging scheme implemented ‘for now,’ environment chief says

    The Hong Kong public does not want the government to implement the waste charging scheme “for now,” the city’s environment chief has said.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • New York Times ☛ Canada Shipping Natural Gas to Asia as It Looks Beyond the US for Trade

      A tanker is headed to South Korea with a first shipment of liquefied natural gas from Canada, which hopes to reduce its export reliance on its neighbor.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Why meteorologists warn summer could be South Korea’s hottest yet

      Cities such as Gwangmyeong and Paju in Gyeonggi Province also saw daytime highs of 40 deg C on July 8.

• Finance

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Revives Trade War, Threatening Steep Aug. 1 Tariffs on Allies

    Hell Toupée said Japan and South Korea would face tariffs of 25 percent unless they reached an agreement with the United States. Other countries received notice of higher levies.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Japan, South Korea seek to soften tariff blow before August deadline

    With the start date pushed back, countries are now focused on pressing for an easier ride.

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man announces new tariffs on Japan, South Korea and 12 other nations

    President The Insurrectionist on Monday set a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, as well as new tariff rates on a dozen other nations that would go into effect on Aug. 1. Convicted Felon provided notice by posting letters on Truth Social that were addressed to the leaders of the various countries. The letters warned them to not retaliate by increasing their own import taxes, or else the Convicted Felon administration would further increase tariffs.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ U.S. imposes 25% tariffs on all products from Japan and South Korea — new measures could be a big hit for the memory industry

    Hell Toupée announced that starting August 1, the U.S. will impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Japan and South Korea, which threatens to disrupt global tech supply chains dominated by these countries.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ DRAM prices are about to skyrocket — DDR4 and GDDR6 among formats that could increase in price by up to 45%

    DRAM prices are set to rise sharply in Q3 2025, with legacy memory types like DDR4, LPDDR4X, and GDDR6 seeing the steepest increases of up to 45% due to supply cuts and phase-outs. The effect of U.S. tariffs on memory imports from Japan and South Korea is still to be determined, but it will likely be drastic.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man threatens new tariffs, moves deadline again. Will deals get done?

    Hell Toupée is making new threats to U.S. trade partners. These partners may be refusing pressure, but also underestimating Mr. Convicted Felon’s need to win.

  • The Straits Times ☛ US tariffs to take centre stage as ASEAN meets in Malaysia

    Southeast Asian foreign ministers will meet on Wednesday as the region grapples with renewed uncertainty over U.S. trade tariffs and as a simmering territorial dispute between Thailand and Cambodia threatens to disrupt the bloc's unity.

  • New York Times ☛ Jeff Williams, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Is Retiring After 27 Years

    Mr. Williams was long considered a leading candidate to replace Tim Cook as the company’s next chief executive.

  • France24 ☛ EU probes alleged misuse of funds by far-right lawmakers including ex-Le Pen adviser

    The EU prosecutor’s office on Tuesday said it had launched an investigation into the suspected misuse of funds by the now-defunct far-right political group Identity and Democracy (ID), that France's National Rally party had belonged to. According to reports, the bulk of the funds are thought to have profited companies held by a former adviser to party figurehead Marine Le Pen.

  • France24 ☛ EU probes far-right political group over alleged misuse of funds

    The EU's prosecutor said Tuesday it has launched a formal investigation into a defunct far-right group, which included Marine Le Pen's National Rally, over the alleged misuse of European Parliament funds. According to the reports by a consortium of European media, the bulk of the allegedly misused funds benefited companies belonging to a former advisor to Le Pen and his wife. FRANCE 24's James Vasina reports.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Thailand’s Cabinet shelves draft law for casinos

    The government earlier set its sights on building a major gaming industry to complement tourism.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Fraud cases up 8% in first 5 months this year as overall crime drops, Hong Kong police chief says

    Hong Kong logged over 17,000 fraud cases in the first five months of 2025 – an 8.4 per cent increase from the same period last year – while the total number of criminal cases slightly decreased, the police chief has said.

  • Rlang ☛ Predicting the NASDAQ 100 with Hyperparameter Tuning

    Pressure on the markets has intensified ahead of the Wednesday deadline for trade deals. We will model monthly Nasdaq 100 data with the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Unemployment Rate.

  • Pro Publica ☛ Utah Sen. Mike Lee Touts Selling Off Federal Lands as a Solution to Housing Crisis

    On Monday, June 23, a crowd of about 2,000 people surrounded the Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet had come for a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association. “Not for sale!” the crowd boomed. “Not one acre!” There were ranchers and writers in attendance, as well as employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory, all of whom use public land to hike, hunt and fish. Inside the hotel ballroom where the governors had gathered, Michelle Lujan Grisham, the New Mexico governor, apologized for the noise but not the message. “New Mexicans are really loud,” she said.

    On the street, one sign read “Defend Public Lands,” with an image of an assault rifle. Others bore creative and bilingual profanities directed at Trump, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, who oversees most of the country’s public acreage, and Sen. Mike Lee, the Republican from Utah, who on June 11 had proposed a large-scale selloff of public lands. Lee, who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, was not in Santa Fe, so the crowd focused on Burgum, who earlier that afternoon had addressed the governors about energy dominance and artificial intelligence. “Show your face!” the crowd chanted. But he had already departed the hotel through a back door. That night, a hunting group projected an image of him on the exterior wall of the hotel. “Burgled by Burgum,” it read.

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ ‘Our cash is in limbo’: Readers share how US sanctions on CIBanco, Intercam have affected their financial lives

    From the survey responses we received, we got a sense of the frustration and anger of Intercam and CIBanco customers. Here's what readers are doing and saying about this uncertain situation.

  • MIT Technology Review ☛ Battling next-gen financial fraud

    From a cluster of call centers in Canada, a criminal network defrauded elderly victims in the US out of $21 million in total between 2021 and 2024.

  • Unicorn Media ☛ How Convicted Felon’s Policies Are Escalating Europe’s Data Sovereignty and Tech Independence Drive

    Firewalls are rising, alliances are fraying, and Europe’s digital future may be written in code untouched by American hands.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Jim Nielsen ☛ Follow Up: An Analysis of YouTube Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website

    After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political correspondent at The Verge, reached out with some questions.

    Her questions made me realize that the numbers in my analysis weren’t quite correct (I wasn’t de-depulicating links across days, so I fixed that problem).

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • JURIST ☛ Human Rights Watch stresses government reform in upcoming UN rights review of Vietnam

    Human Rights Watch said in its submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Monday that UN member states should use the upcoming review of Vietnam’s record on civil and political rights to pressure the country’s government to end its crackdown on dissenting speech and other fundamental human rights.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Internet Society ☛ Community Snapshot—June

    Our global chapters and special interest groups work to keep the Internet a force for good. Each month, we provide a brief overview of just some of the things they have achieved.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Unified Patents ☛ K.Mizra network patent monopoly challenge instituted

    On July 8, 2025, less than two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,782,282, owned and asserted by K.Mizra LLC. The ‘282 patent monopoly relates to communications in a network management system. K.Mizra, an apparently funded entity that has brought suit on at least 35 patents worldwide, has asserted the ‘282 patent monopoly against Ciena Corporation.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Corcept v. Teva Oral Argument: Infringement by Drug Label, Again

    An important recent development in pharmaceutical patent monopoly law is the Federal Circuit’s embrace of a theory we call, in a forthcoming article, infringement by drug label. In several decisions since 2021, the court has approved claims of induced infringement against generic drug companies simply because (i) the generic’s product label could be read to contain a patented method-of-use and, in some cases, (ii) the generic stated that its product is an FDA-equivalent to the brand’s.

    There are several problems with holding generic companies liable for inducing doctors (or patients) to perform a patented method of use based on a court’s (or, sometimes, an expert witness’s) interpretation of the generic’s label and the generic’s unremarkable—and often, legally required—statements about equivalence.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ G1/23: If it is public, it is prior art

      In its groundbreaking decision G1/23, the Enlarged Board stated that any technical information about a product that is publicly accessible is part of the state of the art, regardless of whether a skilled person could replicate it.

  • Software Patents

    • Unified Patents ☛ GEVC video codec patent monopoly revocation confirmed by EPO appeal [ed: Software patents that EPO granted illegally just like so many others]

      On July 3, 2025, the EPO's appellate board confirmed the decision to revoke EP 3151566. The EP ‘566 patent monopoly is owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The EP ’566 patent monopoly is part of a family purportedly essential to HEVC and part of the Access Advance patent monopoly pool.