Lawyer Themed Gifts

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 to version 2.0), she gave me one of her business cards, pulling it out of the cutest miniature briefcase/business card holder. It cracked me up.

A month ago I ordered some of their greeting cards…which I frequently send out as my “Thank You” notes to clients/friends.

Whether it is clocks/watches with six-minute increments or any other lawyer gift, their store is worth checking out.

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My wife said no

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…“

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“I’ve got the best lawyer soft tacos can buy…”

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A Patent Attorney Joke from a Reader

Three lawyer’s are riding to court together one day and, unfortunately, are killed in a horrible traffic accident.

When they reach the pearly gates, St. Peter welcomes them in turn, and says to the first “welcome to heaven. Can you tell me what you did while you were on earth?”, to which he replied “I was a divorce lawyer, and tried to help couples who had difficulties in their relationship”. Well, St. Peter thought about this and said “I see, you were taking advantage of people who were willing to pay anything to get back at their partner”, and he swiftly pulled the lever dropping the hapless lawyer into everlasting hell.

Along comes the second lawyer, and of course St. Peter asks the same thing, the reply being “I was a personal injury attorney, trying to assist those who had been unfairly injured”. St. Peter just said “Ah yes, that’s what we call an ambulance chaser up here”, and sent him to the same fiery fate as the first attorney.

Alas, finally the third attorney approaches and tells St. Peter he was a patent attorney. St. Peter says “come on in!” and shows him to heaven’s finest suite, just to the right of God, the most lovely angels in attendance, you get the picture. After a few minutes of this, the patent lawyer finally asks “but St. Peter, you’ve sent my friends to a fiery eternity, but you welcome me?” “Ah” says St. Peter, “but you’re a patent attorney, you don’t know enough law to hurt anybody!”

The comments are open if you have other patent attorney jokes to share…

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Five things you didn’t know about me

Barista Stephen tagged me with “Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me,” so here you go..
1. I can clap with one hand.
2. I had fourteen fish tanks in my college bedroom when my wife met me…and she still married me. Number of fish tanks currently in the Nipper household? Zero.
3. I am hyper organized at work, but the exact opposite at home. Secretaries love me, my wife wishes I was more like I am at work.
4. I was a radio station DJ once…
5. In High School I turned down a chance to be one of those “photo opp” kids standing behind a politician (namely President George Bush, Sr.) because I didn’t want to miss football practice. Looking back I wish I would have chosen otherwise (I don’t remember a thing about that day of practice, but probably would have forever remembered meeting a President).

I pass this “Five Things” onto the Internet Lawyer Brad Frazer (friend of mine, attorney, blogger), Kempton, Ed at BlawgReview, Bob Shaver at the Patent Pending Blog, and Mitch at the MyTroops.com blog.

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Greatest thing since sliced toast?

TGIF. 

Interesting new product…a ceramic toaster that automatically feeds the bread through the toaster.  Very cool.

It would have been fun to see the “guess what it is” guesses with a picture sans bread slice.

[Via Ed. via J-Walk]

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Via Evan, the History of the Yellow Legal Pad.

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Sudoku 101

OK…so it isn’t Friday (ergo the TGIF post).  Its been a long time since I’ve done one…

My wife has been addicted to Sudoku for quite some time now.  When I found out that a friend of mine was working on a new Sukoku game called Zen of Sudoku, I suggested she try it.  She (as an Sudoku master) loves it. 

She finally convinced me to try it out (I’m not the puzzle type)…and I have to say that I’m really impressed.  I don’t have the patience to solve the printed Sudoku puzzles…but the way Zen of Sudoku is laid out, it makes it really easy to do them on your computer screen.

If you are a Sudoku master OR even a Sudoku rookie…I highly recommend it.

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Dilbert roasts patent litigators

Scott Adams on patent litigators in today’s Dilbert:

http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2006052442720.gif

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Coffee + Beer = Coffee Beer

Like the title says, Coffee + Beer = Coffee Beer. And it is patent pending. Not really sure if I’m interested in drinking a fermented coffee beverage that is non-alcoholic and has a head, but you never know…

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