Monthly Archives: March 2008

QuickLinks for 31-Mar-2008

A couple great resources on the use of /S/ Signatures:

USPTO PDF Explaining Good, Bad and Ugly /S/ Signature Examples

Patent Attorney Joy L. Bryant on "The S-Signature"

TSheets.com Online Timesheet Software — A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that turns any computer or mobile device in to a timeclock. Integrates with QuickBooks.  Perfect way for a small law [...]

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QuickLinks for 27-Mar-2008

A Whole Lotta Nothing – ReCAPTCHA’s quality is going down?

Matt Haughey (MetaFilter, PVRBlog) questioning MetaFilter’s use of reCAPTCHA due to impossible to read challenge words.

See also:  InventBlog – Public Pair/reCaptcha’s unintended consequences.

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Calculating When A Patent Expires…

Hat tip Doug, Michael Neustel has a new site…PatentCalculator.com that allows you to input a patent’s filing date/issue date and determine the expiration date and maintenance fee dates.
See also “How to determine when a patent expires.”

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Google Image Labeler … Community Intellectual Property Cops?

Google has a new “product” in beta. Called the “Google Image Labeler,” it is “a feature of Google Search that allows you to label images and help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.” You are partnered with another person and are shown a series of images over a two-minute period. [...]

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QuickLinks — Rethinking the Practice of Law

The Monster Blog: Workdays Should Be Based on Results — Not Input

Makes me think…is "Results-Only Work Environment" something a law firm could use? To me, ROWE would be telling an associate, I don’t care what hours you are in the office, how many days a week, whether you work from home, etc…as long as [...]

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Upcoming CLE: Las Vegas!

I’ll be speaking in Las Vegas next month (April 11th) for Dunes, speaking at their Patent Drafting & Prosecution CLE on “Tips and Tricks for Expediting Examination of Your Clients’ Cases.”
Summary of my presentation:
Let’s face it, clients can be driven crazy by how long it takes these days to get a patent. While they [...]

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What is up with all of these “QuickLink” posts?

Some of you have probably been wondering about the “QuickLink” posts I’ve made recently…
This blog has really been a way for me to share with my readers (peers) links to stories and information I found interesting and useful in my practice/life. I suppose it works…people are still reading it. If you are only [...]

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QuickLinks for 6-Mar-2008

LifeHacker: Create Your Own Cross-Platform Backup Server

Walks you through how to take an old computer you don’t need and using open source software create a “box” that automatically backs up computers on your network for you.

Steve’s Tech Guide — The Ultimate Windows XP Optimization Tweak Guide

Twenty different tweaks and optimizations to make your XP [...]

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