The first few weeks of the SLART trademark lawsuit between artist/”SLART” trademark registrant Richard Minsky and Linden Lab, et. al. have been busy, and culminated in a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by Consent (.pdf) governing Linden Lab’s short-term response to complaints about the use of “SLART” in Second Life. Minsky had originally sought (and was [...]
Stephen Wu (California attorney, Second Life’s ‘Legal Writer’, President-Elect of the SL Bar Association, current Vice-Chair of the Section of Science & Technology Law of the American Bar Association, and the guy who put me in touch with the ABA’s publishing people about writing Virtual Law) has set up a dedicated website for his 3D [...]
I was only able to spend one day at the Virtual Worlds Expo in LA last week, but the big virtual law story was unmistakable: large U.S. law firms are starting to get more involved in 3D internet legal issues. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (sporting a spiffy new logo and single-name branding) drew the most [...]
A lucky search at the USPTO turned up Patent No. 7,117,136 (.pdf) describing a whole-body input device with built-in force feedback. The patent issued to Second Life founder and former Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale in 2006, and has been assigned to Linden Lab. How does it work? “An input and feedback system for use [...]
