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Mistrial by iPhone: Juries’ Web Research Upends Trials (NYT) Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest [...] This is very old, but: U.S. Denies Patent for a Too-Human Hybrid Patents on humans could also conflict with the 13th Amendment’s prohibition against slavery. That is because a patent permits the owner to exclude others from “using” the invention. Because “use” can mean “employ,” officials wrote, a patent holder could prevent a person [...] |
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