"An entirely new set of assumptions about ethics and originality"

Susan Blum, author of “My Word! Plagiarism and the College Culture,” is giving a talk on plagiarism at Western Michigan University on March 15.

While her book talks about a new set of assumptions about originality, poor patent attorneys are left to deal with the same old 102 and 103 (with the latter a bit modified by KSR v. Teleflex). But Mike Masnick is likely more attuned to the new way of doing things.