Another great and free patent downloading tool: www.pat2pdf.com (thanks to Martin Meder). And courtesy the Nipper, you can pull down FREE pdf copies of EPO/PCT filings here.
Others available here.
I’ll be on the panel “Ethics Issues in Licensing” at the upcoming PLI seminar, Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2003, Hotel Intercontinental, Houston, Sep. 18 – 19, 2003.
From an email from Gary O’Connor:
The most recent issue of the Journal of Appellate Practice & Process has an article on legal weblogs: “Legal And Appellate Weblogs: What They Are, Why You Should Read Them, And Why You Should Consider Starting Your Own” (link2).
Stephanie Tai (blueblanketblog) and I (Statutory Construction Zone) wrote the article. As far as I know, this is the first law review article that primarily focuses on legal weblogs (a few others have brief mentions–no more than a few sentences). It is available online through LEXIS now, and should be on Westlaw by July 31st.
The article mentions your weblog as an example of a blog focusing on intellectual property and technology issues.
Reminds me of Steve Martin in the movie The Jerk–“The new phonebook’s out! I’m somebody now!”
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On a related note–this article, published in Corporate Counsel magazine, also discusses legal blogs.
Cool program: CaptureWiz 1.1: “Capture anything on your screen and print, save, e-mail, or sticky-note it quickly with this virtual camera” (free to try).
Honda put together this extremely cool ad to highlight the inner workings of one of its new cars. You will think it’s got to be computer generated or special effects, but it’s actually real.
Advice for the LawLorn is an interesting lawyer-advice column by Ann Israel. For example–“I’m a fifth-year IP associate. Is in-house truly nirvana like recruiters have been telling me?”; “Should I take the free ride at University of Michigan Law School or pay full fare to go to Harvard Law?”; and my favorite, the law student in the “top 95%“: “I graduated bottom of my class from a fourth tier law school, and I have failed the bar exam four times. Should I just kill myself and get it over with?”
Cool article on buzzword proliferation–If Using Buzzwords is How You Roll, Don’t Be Surprised by the Hatin’, by Nathan Johnson. Writes Johnson: “What is it about certain words that makes them so popular? Do you know what “krunk,” “off the chizain” and “fo shizzle” mean? Possibly. Would you use them in polite conversation – say, in a business meeting, during a parent/teacher conference, at church, during a job performance review? If you don’t know, let me tell you: No, not unless you were joking. Yet, I’ll bet you think you know what equally nebulous terms like “robust,” “end-to-end,” “turnkey” and “scalable” mean. A seemingly infinite number of corporations use them every day to describe products and services.”
Interesting article about “whether patents are an impediment to the industry, a necessary evil or just a high-visibility nuisance”. As a patent-lawyer friend said about this article, “It’s good that this is becoming a more mainstream public policy debate, but scary how ill informed and even illogical the debate is.”
What can I say–that’s the title I came up with for the latest patent to issue for my company, Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. Hey, I haven’t had any published articles to blog lately, this was the best I could do. More patents here.
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