Most larger cities have a “children’s museum” where kids (and grown ups) can experience “hands on” science. Anything that teaches kids that science is cool is worth supporting!
Our local children’s museum is called the “Discovery Center of Idaho.” For about ten years now, I have provided free patent searches to the winners of the Discovery [...]
One of the “old school” patent blogs is Daniel Wright’s Patently Silly blog where he covers the lighter side of patents. I’ve known Daniel for quite a few years (through blogging), and have been glad to have someone who would appreciate the weird patents I stumble on from time to time. Daniel is a stand [...]
Seth Godin’s piece today on “Bear Shaving” is, yet again, an excellent illustration of his brilliance.
Sadly, every time I hear someone with a new “patent reform” argument/plan/policy…it is almost always yet another way of shaving the bear. Heaven forbid the Courts, Administration, Congress and stake-holders should sit down and do a little differential diagnosis [...]
A few years ago I had a post discussing the “mechanically separated chicken” ingredient found on a package of hot dogs.
Thanks to Wikipedia, now we have a picture:
A reader (who is writing a book on patents (historical/humor)) has asked me to post this:
I am looking into purchasing liability insurance and one of the things I need to submit with my application is a written opinion of an attorney regarding the book’s content and legal exposure. Do you or any of your associates [...]
Matt Buchanan’s new blog on “Friday fun – Edison’s mark” (referring to terms and conditions Edison used on a marking plate for his Amberola Phonograph).
Above the Law has a post up on “Where the Lawyers Eat Out” which contains a list of “recommendations for restaurants in various Biglaw cities.”
Something tells me that ‘if’ Boise was a “Biglaw city” that this local restaurant would probably not make the list: The Crescent “NO LAWYERS” Bar & Grill. [...]
For a few years we have irregularly updated one of our side projects…the patent humor site “IP Funny.” Thanks to those of you who have put up with our childish senses of humor (and provided your own funny patents for us to post) over the past couple years.
Recently, we decided it was time to [...]
One of the shout-outs I’ve been meaning to give has been to the very funny Lisa Solomon at The Billable Hour Company. I met her at ABA TechShow a few months ago (on the Matt Homann Pub Crawl). After chatting about legal humor, particularly our IP Funny blog (which will soon be moving [...]
Apparently, the CAFC recently found that if the reason you didn’t pay your maintenance fee was that your wife refused to permit you to, that isn’t enough…
As Norm McDonald would say on SNL, “note to self…“
