Assorted Links.

Privacy - coverage of Lavabit case oral arguments (the case ended Groklaw), is here. PC World commentary here:

The judges did not seem to want to dwell on any possible Fourth Amendment issues. The ACLU has pointed out that the U.S. government possessing a set of private SSL keys that could unlock hundreds of thousands of users’ emails is clearly a breach of privacy rights.
Peterson stated that the court order for the SSL keys specifically confined the law enforcement agency to only use the keys to examine the information of the one person under investigation.

Patents - Alice's merits brief (Carter Phillips, appealing Alice v. CLS Bank) is here. 

The claim thus recites a computer and other hardware, as well as the structural configuration of that hardware, specifically programmed to solve, in a particular way, the complex problem of settlement risk to which the invention is directed.

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...the plurality simply overlooked the actual limitations in Alice’s claims and corresponding specification. As Chief Judge Rader explained, the system claims recite specific hardware, configured to perform the specific computerized functions of creating shadow accounts, adjusting them in a particular way, and then issuing instructions. And the specification lays out how to program a computer system to perform these functions.

DMCA - Claims of over-aggressive DMCA use, or, how to use DMCA to censor. Section 512(f) may be insufficient here.

...using phony copyright claims to force American companies such as YouTube and Google to remove videos and documents that criticize his government.

Last month, more than 140 videos posted by Chevron abruptly vanished from YouTube, replaced by notices that said they were yanked due to copyright-infringement claims by a Spanish video-distribution company called Filmin.

Trade secrets - note:  "...if you see someone openly disclosing your trade secret on television, you should probably do something about it."  Here.