Monthly Archives: October 2006

Accelerated Examination of Patents. Good idea? Bad?

I haven’t reviewed this topic enough to form an opinion one way or another (as to how it would benefit/harm MY clients)…yet.  However, if you’d like to learn more:

The United States Patent & Trademark Office [USPTO] invites you to participate in a special web announcement on Thursday, November 2nd at 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 [...]

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This Week in Law — hot off the presses, er RSSes

The Queen of the Blawgers Denise Howell has a new gig…working with Leo Laporte & his This Week in Tech netcast to produce a weekly netcast (podcast) called This Week in Law where Denise and a panel discusses hot topics in technology law. 
This is hoooooge!  Listen to it!  Subscribe!

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Acrobat 8 for Lawyers

This last year I bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner (which comes with Acrobat for free).  Probably the best investment I made last year…can’t imagine practicing law without a desktop scanner/Acrobat. 

 
Looks like the forthcoming version of Adobe Acrobat has a number of features that lawyers will find VERY useful.  The main ones being integral Bates [...]

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The IP News Car Pool Lane

Forget about traffic jams…there is a new blog worthy of subscribing to.  Called IP Law Daily, it monitors approximately 100 intellectual property related legal weblogs and aggregates all the interesting tidbits of information from these sources, all in one place.
If you don’t have time to read 100 IP blogs…IP Law Daily’s summary may be just what [...]

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Important reminder…EFS-Web & Saturday

My paralegal sat through EFS-Web training yesterday (or was it Wednesday?).  One thing she took away was a warning:
PLANNED OUTAGE: EFS-Web
will be unavailable between 6:00 a.m. EST on Saturday, October 14 and
12:01 a.m. EST on Sunday, October 15 while we transition from EFS-Web
1.0 to EFS-Web 1.1.
Please
note that Saved Submissions left on the server at the [...]

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Advent Product Development sued for fraud, improper and deceptive invention promotion

Via Patent Lawsuit Updates — RSSMojo, I noticed two patent infringement lawsuits filed recently by former customers of Advent Product Development:
PAPPALARDO v. ADVENT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, INC.  [Complaint—File Attachment: pappalardo.pdf (18 KB)]njdce1:2006cv046972006-09-29
PRIOLEAU v. ADVENT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, INC.  [Complaint—File Attachment: PRIOLEAU.pdf (18 KB)]njdce1:2006cv04698 2006-09-29
The complaints, filed by same attorney, include causes of action for:

Improper and Deceptive Invention [...]

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IP Bookmarks ==> Wiki

Stephan Kinsella has, for some time, maintained an extensive list of IP bookmarks.  Via email earlier, he indicated that he has decided to take his list and make it a wiki…letting the community help him add additional resources for patent practitioners.

The Intellectual Property, Patent, and Law Resources previously shown below has been moved to a [...]

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Setting Up Blogads In TypePad TypeLists

Earlier, I set up a new Blogads strip (with an ad for our legal jobs board (www.legalmojo.com)) over in the right hand margin of this blog.  I’ve really enjoyed using Blogads…revenue from it has been used to fund my share of the development costs of various Rethink(IP) projects (like LegalMojo, LawsuitMojo, PatentFizz, etc.).  Let me know if [...]

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Speed dating: Inventors and Investors

“Speed dating” is a concept where “men and women are rotated to meet each other for only eight minutes. At the end of each eight minutes, they are forced to the next round no matter how much they are enjoying the interaction (or dread the next one). At the end of the event participants submit [...]

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Current New Jobs on LegalMojo

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