Links 12/2/2013: Comcast testing new ad tech; Luukko resigns from Comcast-Spectacor

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Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet (Ars Technica)

Comcast tests new ad tech to help networks capture binge viewers (Reuters via Chicago Tribune)

Luukko out as president of Comcast-Spectacor (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Luukko resigns from Flyers, Comcast-Spectacor (CSN Philly)


QVC chief bullish about Cyber Monday (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Digital wallets: Paypal, Amazon, and credit cards are top contenders (not Apple, Google) (VentureBeat)

QlikView.Next rollout is around the corner (Ovum)
New release critical to Radnor company's future.

Bentley Systems embraces the cloud (AEC Magazine)


Cognizant to Hire 10,000 U.S. Workers (Bloomberg)

Fund Helps Student Start-Up Test 'Blue Books' of the Future (Chronicle of Higher Education)
A First Round Capital Dorm Room Fund venture at Penn.

E La Carte Scores Deal With Applebee’s, Bringing 100,000 Tableside Tablets To All U.S. Locations By Year-End 2014 (TechCrunch)




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Local firm's lawsuit vs Apple causes big headaches for Morgan Lewis

Tom Paine

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A little over a year ago, I posted about a lawsuit filed by FlatWorld Interactives LLC, a Villanova-based firm founded by U of Arts Professor Dr. Slavko Milekic against Apple, claiming it violated at least one patent he was awarded related to touch screen technology. The lawsuit was dismissed by many observers at the time of being typical "patent troll" behavior. The FlatWorld lawsuit claimed that virtually every Apple device incorporating touch screen technology violated its patent(s).

Although FlatWorld made some small efforts at commercialization, they didn't seem to get very far.

Ars Technica revealed in an article by Joe Mullin published last week that John McAleese, an attorney (as of know, formerly) with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which does considerable IP work for Apple, controlled 35% of FlatWorld and played a key role in initiating the legal action. My report from last year had identified his wife, Jennifer Wilson McAleese, as a partner in FlatWorld, but did not make the connection to her husband. John McAlesse was an environmental law litigator at Morgan Lewis, not typically involved in technology patent issues.

John McAleese claims that he did not dip into proprietary, confidential data that Morgan Lewis maintained for Apple, but Apple disputes that, and is arguing that the Seattle law firm the McAleeses used to file the suit, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, be removed from the case since it is now tainted by alleged access to privileged information obtained through Mr. McAleese at Morgan Lewis.

Beyond the scope of the case itself and its potential impact on Morgan Lewis' important relationship with Apple in the future, the situation may also raise broader issues about controls at Morgan Lewis regarding client confidentiality and potential conflicts of interest.

Ars Technica provides much more detail on the story.




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Timothy B. Lee joins Washington Post

Tom Paine


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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica

Timothy B. Lee, the Philadelphia resident and libertarian-oriented economic thinker who has written about technology issues for Ars Technica and Forbes and has been an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, has apparently joined the Washington Post in a full-time role, according to his twitter feed.

He will be moving to Washington, and his new position will require that he end his 10 year relationship with the Cato Institute, he tweets.

Lee has a masters degree in Computer Science from Princeton. He is an often provocative thinker who goes against the grain of orthodoxy, and it will be interesting to see what he contributes at the Post.

Why couldn't the Inquirer have made an effort to keep him in Philly, I wonder? (Needn't ask.)




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