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This month is CLE-city for me.  I am teaching a CLE on “Ten Things Your Clients Expect You to Know about Trademark Law” on Sept. 2nd (I’ll get a copy of my notes up thereafter) and helping Kevin O’Keefe teach a CLE here in Boise on marketing (details below) on the 24th. 

The “Ten Things” CLE series has been a lot of fun.  As Idaho State Bar Intellectual Property Law Section Chair, set up the series a year ago.  Every other month we (the IP Section) offer a CLE directed at the non-IP attorneys in the Idaho Bar of the “Ten Things…” they need to know about patents, copyrights, IP licensing, etc.

The marketing CLE with Kevin should be fun…here are the details:

The ISB Intellectual Property Section presents…

Growing your legal practice on-line

September 24 2004
Crystal Ballroom, Hoff Building
802 W. Bannock, Boise, Idaho

Registration:  8:30  – 9:00 a.m.
Program Schedule: 9:00 a.m  – 12:15 p.m. (includes a 15 minute break)
Approved for 3 CLE Credit

    Web site doesn’t work?      Got no idea how to make Google work for you?   
    Bewildered by blogs?      Perplexed by paid search?   

Come to this 3-hour interactive seminar and get caught up on the latest tools and tactics to publish and manage on-line educational and promotional content for marketing purposes.  Web wizards Kevin O’Keefe (founder of lexBlog, and former practicing lawyer of 17 years & a former VP of Martindale-Hubbell) and Stephen Nipper (Boise patent lawyer & successful blog publisher) will discuss a variety of budget-conscious strategies for focusing content, making it visible, and enhancing your reputation.  Included will be an overview of search engines, directories, paid search programs and syndication/news feeds. There will also be a live demo on how to publish your own blog.

271patent.blogspot.com. Started April 2004.  Of course “271″ (I presume) refers to 35 U.S.C. § 271 (patent infringement).

ipbiz.blogspot.com (Lawrence B. Ebert). Started June 2004.

[note:  anytime I refer to someone as a "new kid" I mean "new to me"...it is not intended to imply that they just started (although often it is just the case)]

Hal Wegner (Foley & Lardner) has a new 102 page long white paper available on-line called: 

Claim Construction: Toward a Simplified and Predictable Body of Patent Law (PDF).

Intelprop.ca Blog

“The Intelprop.ca blog is designed to provide news updates for those interested in the state of Canadian intellectual property law.  Some of the news items that will be covered include:  Canadian intellectual property court decisions Canadian Intellectual Property Office news USPTO news Patent Co-operation Treaty news.  This blog is maintained by Peter Eliopoulos of Eliopoulos Intellectual Property Law in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.  Peter is an Ontario lawyer and registered patent and trade-mark agent, eligible to practice before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.”

From the ABA eJournal Report: ABA LEADER CALLS FOR NEW TORTURE PROBE. I think that torture probes were part of the problem…

[Yes, that is the real title of the article.]

Robert Ambrogi, the author of the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web has been posting regarding some of the sites mentioned in his book lately.  75135151408“>Today’s post gave five stars to the website of U.K. patent attorney John Mayall (Mayall’s IP Links).  Ambrogi notes:

There are two very good reasons to visit Mayall’s IP Links, from U.K. patent attorney John Mayall. The first is for its collection of IP links. It may well be the best, most thorough collection of IP links, all thoroughly annotated….The second reason to visit is to download and learn to use PatSee Patent Downloader.

Read his post for more details.

We’re still looking for 10 more Blawgers…email me for an invite.

Law Dawg Blawg on “New Blog on Law & Entrepreneurship from Univ. of Wisconsin”

According to its welcome message, this is a “collaborative project involving Professor Gordon Smith and students at the University of Wisconsin Law School. . . . [It] will track judicial, legislative, regulatory, transactional, and scholarly developments relating to the following topics: alliances, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor relationships, copyright and trademark, corporations, employees, family businesses, franchising, international trade, patents and technology, securities, small businesses, taxation, unincorporated entities, and venture capital.”

There are quite a few “entrepreneurship” blogs popping up…great resources for inventors!! Here’s a link to the blog: Law & Entrepreneurship News

It’s not really TGIF time…but I had to stick this post in a category.

Kevin @ TechLawAdvisor.com mentioned “fantasy football” in a post this morning…which led the two of us into a “wouldn’t it be fun to gather together some of our fellow law bloggers together for a fantasy football league” conversation.  Kevin went ahead and set up a free Yahoo league.  If you want an invite…send me (or Kevin) an email.  It could be fun to see which Blawg comes out on top come January.