This cracked me up. Scott Adams (Dilbert fame) has a blog. Today’s entry discusses a recent Dilbert comic showing a lawyer killed by a porpoise.
Monthly Archives: October 2005
TGIF, Cooking for Engineers
It’s been a while since I’ve done a TGIF post…this installment brings us one of the blogs that made it out of Probation in my aggregator, namely Cooking for Engineers. Check out his patent pending recipe format (Tabular Recipe Notation)…very cool. If you enjoy Alton Brown’s work…you’ll like Cooking for Engineers.
Bias in Invention Disclosures
We have a guest post up today at Rethink(IP)…Bill Meade of BasicIP on Proactive Invention Management. In the post he talks about invisibias and how he learned “to reduce it by making 3 broad positive assumptions to try to cut out the compounding of many little negative assumptions that were costing invention disclosures.” [...]
New IP Kid on the Blawgk: Australian Patent Information Centre blog
I received a nice message from Rodney Cruise at IP Menu today:
Just thought I’d let you know about a new blog that IP Menu/IP Organisers has recently started. It is called “Australian Patent Information Centre”, and as the name implies it is all about Patents and Australia. It is primarily directed at professionals [...]
Idaho, Law Practice Management and Blawgs
Posting has been a bit light here for the past few months. Between work, Rethink(IP) projects (big announcement coming in the next (hopefully) couple of months), and other projects…I don’t have the time I used to to blog. Alas…Probably the biggest non-Rethink(IP)/work project on my lap is the newly formed Idaho State Bar Law Practice [...]
Tech Tip: Viewing TIFF files in Windows
The default viewer for TIFF files in Windows XP is Microsoft’s built in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (if memory serves me right). Microsoft’s viewer is nice, but if I’m on the USPTO web page viewing patent images (in .tiff format) I’d like to do it from within my browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, FireFox) and not in [...]
Apple gets IP
The RIAA doesn’t get it. The MPAA doesn’t get it. But Apple does. What is it? IP.
A number of years ago Apple started selling music online for 99 cents a track via its iTunes Music Store (iTMS). Pundits at the time called them idiots. Who would pay for music [...]
Got Blawg? Want Blawg?
No, this one is not for sale, but the guys at LexThink (Matt, Dennis) have put together a conference on Blawging 101. Entitled “BlawgThink 2005,” if you are interested in blogging, you really should (1) send Matt/Dennis a request for an invite and (2) put November 11-12 on your calendar. Here is what they [...]
Sick? Stay home.
One of our office policies is “if you are sick…stay home.” There is nothing worse than having the flu or a cold rampage through the office (and everyone’s households).
Lifehack.org points to this WebMD article on “Call in Sick or Go to Work?…how to tell if you’re contagious.” The article points out that “lost [...]
Patent Drafting in Law School…
Albany Law School has a class on “Patent Prosecution and Patent Drafting.” How cool is that?
I went to law school in the late mid-1990’s and I actually took the first IP class offered at the school, a solitary class that covered patents, copyrights and trademarks (yes, I know that some other schools have always [...]
