You may have missed this — as we did. But last month, the New York private equity firm Siris Capital Group quietly purchased Bellevue-based Applied Discovery from LexisNexis. At the time of the deal, Applied Discovery’s Jon Resnick wrote in a blog post that business would operate as usual through the transition, which was described as… Read More…
A sign of a bubble? Startup-related legal questions surge in Silicon Valley, Seattle

There are all multiple ways to measure if the startup tech market is booming: IPOs, venture capital, inflated valuations in M&A deals. But Avvo, the Seattle online directory of lawyers, has been tracking another interesting metric: startup-related questions in its legal Q&A forum. Pageviews at Avvo for startup-related terms — such as “non-compete agreement” and… Read More…
BlueCat enters patent deal with Intellectual Ventures

Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, has inked a deal with BlueCat Networks of Toronto. As part of the agreement, BlueCat has acquired patents from Intellectual Ventures and become a members of its “IP Defense” program. “This agreement with IV provides us with the intellectual property… Read More…
Why the Supreme Court shot down California’s ban on violent video games

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a California law that attempted to ban the sale of violent video games to minors. In a 7-2 decision led by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court decided that video games should be protected under the right to free speech. “Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them,… Read More…
New Stanford Law building is amazing, and it comes courtesy of an ex-Microsoftie

Stanford University has minted plenty of Silicon Valley high-tech millionaires and billionaires over the years. But Microsoft money helped pay for Stanford Law School’s newest building. The university this week dedicated the William H. Neukom Building, a 65,000-square-foot structure that’s designed to support the school’s mission to “transform legal education.” Neukom, of course, is the former… Read More…































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