Judge Richard Posner

Judge Posner orders estate to pay up over Sherlock Holmes copyright “extortion”

on August 5, 2014

The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle tried to squeeze an editor into paying for Sherlock Holmes works in the public domain. Now the estate will pay instead after Judge Richard Posner blasted “their extortionate game.”

In Apple-Google case, court blows off famous judge’s plea for patent sanity

on April 25, 2014

Judge Richard Posner tried to put a stop to silly patent lawsuits over smartphones. Unfortunately, the country’s patent court — which has helped to create many patent problems in the first place — is having none of it.