He didn’t REALLY talk smack, but he did (in an email sent to blawgers everywhere) taunt the fact that there has been “poor support for blawgs thus far” in the 2005 TechnoLawyer @ Awards. The voting is half over and Dennis Kennedy’s blog is in the lead (of one of the categories) with a whopping [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2005
WIPO SMEs Newsletter
One great resource, if you aren’t already subscribed, is the “WIPO SMEs Newsletter.” (SME stands for “Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises”)
WIPO SMEs Newsletter is a monthly e-publication providing reader with useful intellectual property information contained in original/latest/new articles, links to articles already in the internet, case studies, best practices, forthcoming IP/SMEs relevant events, published presentations on [...]
Dual monitors!
On my list of geeky things to do has been “dual monitors.” My youngest brother figured out how to do it, so I forced him to show me yesterday.
After about 15 minutes of my time this morning¦
Cost: FREE!!! (I only had to find an old video card and a spare monitor).
Now I can [...]
Patent Reform: Do Small Entities Support the Status Quo?
It’s not often that I disagree with patent blogger extraordinaire Dennis Crouch…but today I do. Earlier, he posted on "Patent Reform: Congress Choosing Sides" and made the statement that "Start-ups and individual inventors [have] the goal of keeping the status quo."
In a world where the public views our patent system as a wreck…maintaining the [...]
Tool for determining patent terms
As Gollum might say, "Hobbits are sneaky tricksters." Guess what else is a sneaky trickster…the MPEP when it comes to patent terms. Did you know that, depending on when a patent issued (particularly those that issued around the time the patent term went from 17 to 20), sometimes a parent application can have a term [...]
Apple patents or Microsoft patents….which are more interesting?
Have you checked out patentmojo.com yet?
It allows you to set up RSS feeds of patent searches (i.e., every time company A receives a patent…send me an email). Pretty slick concept. They have a number of "sample" RSS feeds set up…a great way to try out their services.
Surprisingly, there are (as of this second) 93 [...]
Have you been rethinking with me?
Another of my side projects is the rethink(ip) blog. It is a collaborative effort between fellow bloggers Buchanan and Sorocco where we talk about what we like and don’t like about the practice of ip law.
Recent posts included:
The one thing you should do for every person who sends you a referral.
The battle of the [...]
IP Memes
One of the various side projects I work on is a bi-weekly newsletter for TechnoLawyer called "IP Memes." If you don’t receive it (it is free), here’s a subscription link.
Here’s a teaser for the next issue (Monday):
IP Memes: Copyright Office Feeds Your Firm — and Other Hot IP IssuesBy Stephen M. NipperIn the [...]
German spam
Been seeing lots of spam in your inbox in German? It is the Sober.q virus (on someone else’s computer) sending you (believe it or not) right wing German propaganda. See PCWorld for the scoop.
Constitutional argument against changing injunctive relief
Dennis Crouch at the Patently-O blog raises an interesting point…is there a Constitutional argument regarding whether or not injunctive relief can be only available if the patentee is using the patent and/or injunctive relief could eliminated outright (as proposed in the current patent reform bill drafts/conversations). I anxiously await the comments to be posted to [...]
