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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Board of Appeals and Interference has reversed an earlier decision from the Patent Office's re-examination division…
May 3, 2010The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled Wednesday in favor of the two consumer groups that challenged one of the patents held…
May 3, 2010Local Researchers Applaud Decision The decision is good news for medical researchers, especially in California, said Jeanne Loring, a prominent stem cell…
May 3, 2010Political grandstanding comes with the territory in Sacramento. But the line between government service and career advancement is ever blurrier as legislators…
May 2, 2010In yet another indication of the seriousness of the mounting antitrust concerns about Goolge, the Ohio Attorney General, Richard A. Cordray, has…
May 1, 2010Government data protection authorities in Germany and the UK are questioning the collection of information on individual WiFI networks by Google’s Street…
Apr 30, 2010Consumer Watchdog has also put out a release urging Congressional investigators to look into “whether Anthem Blue Cross executives made misrepresentations to…
Apr 30, 2010Their retirement dreams gone, a growing number of local baby boomers are simply trying to survive as jobs, money and health insurance…
Apr 30, 2010Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog said that the California Department of Insurance’s disclosure today that independent actuaries found Anthem Blue Cross…
Apr 29, 2010Consumer Watchdog’s Harvey Rosenfield, a leading opponent of Proposition 17 (not surprisingly, given that he wrote Proposition 103), said the only logical…
Apr 29, 2010Initial Study Shows Health Overhaul Won't Have the Profit Impact They Feared Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group, is pushing to keep "medical…
Apr 28, 2010Canada's Privacy Commissioner has taken on the Internet heavyweights - and transformed her office in the process ...
Apr 27, 2010UPDATE: The Wall Street filibuster of financial reform was broken Wednesday night. Now the Senate moves to a full and open floor…
Apr 27, 2010Lawyer Harvey Rosenfield, who wrote Proposition 103 and founded the Consumer Watchdog advocacy group, has videotaped a test case where he filled…
Apr 27, 2010The GOP has put more energy into filibustering reform than it has spent legislating all year. Friends of Wall Street are gearing…
Apr 26, 2010Mercury Insurance sells Proposition 17 as benefiting consumers, but it’s easy to see through the claim. Look at who’s opposing the proposition…
Apr 24, 2010Hold onto your health plan. In an effort to get ahead of the new restrictions and regulations of health care reform, insurers…
Apr 23, 2010