Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Time For Mandatory Patent Assignment Recording Is Now

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Something strange occurs when the U.S. Patent Office issues a patent monopoly; it does not necessarily know the identity of the monopoly rec...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

JFK: 11-22-11

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy May 29, 1917 - Nov. 22, 1963 (12:30 p.m. CST, Dallas, Texas) "So let us begin anew—remembering on both...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Another Veterans Day: "Sweet and Fitting"

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST by WILFRED OWEN [Written 1917, published posthumously 1920] Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Kno...

The Silence of Veterans Day

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely sin...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Nike - Joe Paterno - Child Abuse - Common Sense

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The Joe Paterno Center on Nike's campus outside of Portland houses Nike's child day care facility for its staff. The Oregonian repor...

The Non-Fixed, Illusional Copyright

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CTV published a report today about magic troubles involving the Dutch illusionist, Hans Klok The article explains that Klok was found liabl...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Where, Or Where, Did The Copyright Litigation Go?

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The federal litigation statistics published by the Office of U.S. Courts reveals striking information about the litigation climate for copy...

Odds and Ends: Oklahoma City Thunder; Blown Insurance Coverage; Marybeth Peters

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Some odds and ends for Friday: No Copyright Infringement By The Oklahoma City Thunder Basketball Team For "Go Thunder."  The NBA...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Eliminate Software Patents: The White House Responds

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My post of September 27 explained how the White House's We The People website elicited an interesting petition, presently supported by ...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Ghouls, Goblins and Beer

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On this frightful day of ghouls and goblins of all shapes and sizes, let us pause to toast a singularly important individual. Joseph Bramah ...

More on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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My post of May 5, 2011 discussed the recent Ninth Circuit criminal case of US v. Nosal  applying the Criminal Fraud and Abuse Act to action...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

To Obtain A Trademark Registration, There Must First Be A Trademark

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It sounds axiomatic that the registration of a trademark requires the existence of a trademark. Similar to giving birth, a trademark can reg...

PTO To Critique China's Patent Enforcement

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Encouraging public insight to pour forth, the PTO has requested comments from inventors regarding personal experiences in enforcing patent r...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Creation and Protection of an Actor's Audiovisual Performance Right

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As discussed in my August 4 blog post, WIPO has shown a recent and enlivened interest in developing international copyright-based protection...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Is 100,000 Year Old Art Copyrightable?

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The October 11th edition of Science magazine features an article concerning the discovery of an early-human "art factory" in the ...

Wyden to Obama: Declare ACTA Invalid

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In his October 12th letter to President Obama , Sen. Ron Wyden (Dem., Oregon) asked President Obama to declare that the United States is not...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Rosh Hashanah

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Happy Rosh Hashanah, the Hebrew New Year. The new year begins for people, animals and legal contracts.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Xenophobic Customer Support

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New York Senator Charles Schumer may be experiencing a bit of xenophobic tendencies in his newly submitted bill, S. 1536 . This proposed leg...

Is it scandalous? Look in the dictionary!

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Is the design of a bottle, shaped to resemble a hand flipping the bird (a hand with the middle finger extended), scandalous and therefore no...

Petition to Eliminate Software Patents

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The White House's website contains a We The People section, allowing common folks to petition the government via the web. The White Hou...