Poking around on the Google Patents site earlier I noticed they now have a “download PDF” button. FYI…
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Free Law Practice Management Tips
The ABA’s Law Practice Management Section has a monthly online publication called “Law Practice Today.” The fact that it is a monthly publication called “Today” just made me laugh…but I digress.
This month’s issue includes articles on:
-Whom Do You Trust? Beware of Gray Areas Regarding Trust Accounts
-Awaken the Marketer in You
-Enhancing Expert Witness Trial Testimony: [...]
E-mail Bankruptcy and other Productivity Tips
Speaking of “e-mail bankruptcy” (mentioned in my last post), that term (attributed to Lawrence Lessig) surfaced in Wired blog piece full of tips on “How To: Be More Productive.” Sound like something you need? Read the article.
Post Deluge Coming…
My inbox is running over with things I need to post here. It reminds me of a relative of mine who would, rather than balancing his checking account, open a new one, wait a few months for everything to clear and then close the original account.
Rather than open a new email account, declaring e-mail [...]
Advent Product Development’s Success Rate – 0%?
According to an Exhibit that Advent itself filed in a recent lawsuit, between October 1, 1998 and December 6, 2004, out of 2452 inventors that “signed Phase II representation agreements” with Advent, ZERO made more money than they spent on Advent’s services.
I know that Kurt Leyendecker previously noted that InventHelp’s success rate was 0.23% and [...]
Most Viewed Posts
My Twenty Most Popular Posts (based on views since June 2007):
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Other favorite posts:
Guide to Downloading Patent Copies (PDF, TIFF)
My Switch (Partial) to Mac…update
Anything in the Tech Tips category.
Independent Inventors and Invention Promotion Companies
Patenting Legal Methods
Interesting…
Attached for your consideration is The Patent Office Meets The Poison Pill: Why Legal Methods Cannot Be Patented, an article I recently published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, available on the web at jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v20/20HarvJLTech333.pdf.
The Patent Office began in 2003 to award patents for legal methods, such as tax strategies, and commentators have [...]
Tech’s Next Boomtown…is Boise?
According to this MSNBC Video, it is. [via]
Of course, they’re not the first ones to say it. Someone else called it the “hotbed of entrepreneurship.” Plus we can also brag about (if memory serves me rightbeing #2 (patents per capita (city)) and #1 patents per capita (state)). Gotta love being a [...]
Law Firm Innovation, by Mr. Law Firm Innovation
There are few people in this world I respect the opinion and advice more than Matt Homann. The guy is a genius when it comes to thinking outside the box. When Matt speaks, the world listens (or at least it should).
I’ve been working on getting Matt to come speak (CLE) here in Boise [...]
Patent Lawyers, Engineers, CAD Files and Adobe Acrobat????
I previously called Adobe Acrobat A Must Have Tool for IP Attorneys. Guess what? Add another reason to that list: viewing CAD files. I completely missed that feature!
Rick over at the Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog has the scoop in his post: “Converting CAD Drawings in Discovery,” including information on:
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