Legal Pads?

January 17, 2007 on 11:28 am | In History, TGIF, The-Practice-of-Law | Comments Off

Via Evan, the History of the Yellow Legal Pad.

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Need a Law Review Topic? Have one to Suggest?

November 8, 2006 on 1:30 pm | In Articles, Caselaw, History, Lawsuits, Legislation/Regulation, USPTO | Comments Off

Ohio patent blogger Matt Buchanan has an interesting post up…providing a list of the “Top Ten patent law topics begging for law review attention.”  Fee diversion, eBay & Congress, continuation abuse…a worthy list if you’re looking for a law review topic.

OR, if you have a topic to suggest…leave a comment to that post.  Maybe then his top “ten” post will have more than “eight.”  ;-)

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Explain Patents v. Copyrights

August 7, 2006 on 3:11 pm | In Copyrights, History, Legislation/Regulation | 5 Comments

A client asked me a question earlier that I didn’t know the answer to.  Perhaps one of my readers does:

Why are there criminal infringement penalties for copyright law, but not for patent law? When were they added to copyright law? Why? Why didn’t patent law get the same treatment?

Inquiring minds want to know…

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Intellectual Property Trivia and Tidbits

March 18, 2006 on 5:43 pm | In Articles, History | 1 Comment

“Intellectual Property Run Amok“–an interesting article containing list of “facts” about intellectual property including facts like:

NINETY-ONE pending trademarks bear Donald Trump’s name, including “Donald J. Trump the Fragrance” and “Trump’s Golden Lager.” He failed to trademark the phrase “You’re fired.”

and

THE CLASSIC civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize can’t be aired or sold because much of its archival footage is copyrighted.

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GrepLaw : History of Intellectual Property in the U.S.

February 19, 2004 on 2:03 pm | In History | 1 Comment

“The Berkman Center is hosting an online reading group on the History of Intellectual Property in the U.S…” via this GrepLaw post which has more information.

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