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Reclaim Your Personal Information
Part 1: Establishing a legal right to personal information -- Introduction
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A: Establishing the value of personal information to consumers
B. Establishing consumers' right to control dissemination of personal information
C. Legal implications of personal-information collection
D. Identifiable and non-identifiable personal information: the myth of anonymity
Part 2: Opt out, transparency, shared responsibility
Part 3: Establishing the personal-information contract -- Introduction
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A. Action under trespass to chattels
B. Damages for unjust enrichment
C. Contract formation -- Introduction
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1. Implied contract
2. Damages for contract breach
3. Offer, acceptance, bargained-for consideration
4. Transaction costs
Conclusion: Transparency in formation of the personal-information contract
Software Patentability
I. Introduction
II. Software Patentability -- a. Intent of USCS Const. Art. I § 8, cl. 8
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b. 35 USCS § 101
c. 35 USCS § 102: Novelty, prior art
d. 35 USCS § 103: Non-obvious subject matter
e. 35 USCS § 112: Specification
III. Consistency and Predictability of Software-Patent Court Decisions
IV. Software-Patent Notice and Discoverability -- a. 35 USCS § 112’s “clear, concise, exact” requirement
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b. 35 USCS § 112’s “full disclosure” requirement
c. USPTO: Manual of Patent Examining Procedure -- i. 2104 Patentable Subject Matter [R-9]
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ii. 2161.01 Computer Programming and 35 U.S.C. 112, First Paragraph [R-9]
iii. 2163 Guidelines for the Examination of Patent Applications Under the 35 U.S.C. 112, para. 1, “Written Description” Requirement [R-5]
iv. 2164 The Enablement Requirement [R-2]
v. 2165 The Best Mode Requirement
vi. 2182 Scope of the Search and Identification of the Prior Art [R-2]
V. Federal Statutes & Regulations
VI. Secondary Sources
VII. Brief Summation
VIII. Appendix A: Design Innovation Proposal for Software-patent Reform
IX. Appendix B: Links
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