Patently-O Bits and Bytes by Dennis Crouch

• Apple v. Samsung
• There are many interesting discussions regarding Apple's $1b patent verdict against Samsung. 
• My former professor Randy Picker (UChicago) writes that this is exactly what patents are good for — “vindicating the market power that the patent system makes available to successful inventions.”
• Joff Wild (editor of IAM) writes that the decision may again boost patent prices and help Kodak, RIM and Nokia.
• Longtime patent critic Josh Lerner (Harvard) identifies the buying and selling of patents as a “distortion of the role of patents.”
• Today's NYTimes notes that the verdict punishing copying may spur innovation by “give[ing Apple's] rivals a kick in the pants to create more original products.”
• India: SpicyIP writes that Thompson/Westlaw has been ordered by an Indian to stop distributing copies of Indian Supreme Court Cases that it allegedly copied from the Eastern Book Company reporter.
• Internet Safe Harbor: The EFF (with Craig Newmark) have created an interesting infographic of the importance of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.  That provision offers a broad safe harbor to internet service providers (including website distributors) against liability created by third-party activity (such as blog comments).  Facebook would not exist without this provision (or something similar).