With the rethink(ip) project…I’ve been falling behind on my Tech Tip Thursday/Inventor Roundup Friday posts. Suffice it to say that I haven’t seen any articles lately worth rounding up for inventors (so that is why the roundup posts have been awol).
On the Tech Tip Thursday (pretend it is Thursday, not Friday)…here’s my latest, the Google [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Tech Tip Thursday
rethink(ip) podcast feed
rethink(ip) finally has an RSS/XML feed for our "rethink(ip) aloud" podcast. See:
Wonder what you do with a podcast RSS/XML feed? You download a free program called iPodder and subscribe to the feed. The next time rethink(ip) releases a podcast…iPodder will download the podcast for you automatically.
rethink(ip)’s first podcast!
Well…It’s up. Our initial podcast [21+MB]. We learned a lot from the process and promise to (1) keep it shorter next time (maybe) and (2) I’ll use a better phone (so my audio quality and volume is better). Also, we still have to figure out hosting…so no RSS feed for the podcast yet.
Comments, suggestions, [...]
Idaho…hotbed of entrepreneurialism
Great article in the March 21, 2005 U.S.News & World Report on "Idaho: Growing your own way" talking about Idaho entrepreneurs/inventors/businesses. While I’m biased (what patent attorney wouldn’t be), Idaho really is a great place for businesses and inventors. It is the #1 state for patents per capita, #2 metro area (per capita) for patents, [...]
Better rename the rethink(ip) “podcast”
Marty Schwimmer points out that someone has filed a trademark application seeking registration of the trademark PODCAST on "online prerecorded radio program over the internet." No, I am not making this up. Hey, if Al Gore can invent the Internet, why can’t an Intent-To-Use trademark application be filed on PODCAST?
Annoyed? Here’s what you can do. [...]
Podcasting lesson #1 — don’t do work someone else has already done for you
The rethink(ip) boys have their first podcast "in the can." It is finished and after Mix-Master B (Buchanan) gets a chance to work his magic, we’ll get a link up.
I thought I’d take some time to discuss the process for all of you considering your own podcast.
What was the first thing the law librarians at [...]
eBay, usernames and trademark infringement
Do you have a client annoyed with a seller using your client’s trademark(s) in said reseller’s eBay username? It’s a pretty easy thing to fix. Here’s how you do it.
Go to eBay’s “User IDs†FAQ page. Therein is a reminder to eBay users that “User IDs:…Can’t incorporate, or be confusingly similar to, a third-party’s trademark [...]
Secrets secrets…
First Sorocco posts about ""FYI – stay tuned for a wicked cool announcement next week! I promise, you don’t want to miss it."
Then Buchanan posts on a "major announcement from me and two other IP bloggers… Sorocco (aka Mr. PHOSITA) and another IP blogger to be named later (hint: he’s got the coolest name in [...]
Today’s Dilbert
Today’s Dilbert (3/10/5) mentions patents…fyi.
http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/index.html
Patent Associate starting position
We (Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP) have actually decided to take on a new associate later this spring. If you know of anyone (preferably with ties to Boise/Idaho) who (1) can CURRENTLY sit for the patent bar (or is already registered), (2) who is going to graduate this spring (or recently graduated), and (3) is interested [...]
