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• ▼2010 (2)
  • ▶March (1)
    • Toilet Paper Trade Dress Suit Rolls On:
  • ▶February (1)
    • Number of International Patent Filings are Down
• ▶2009 (19)
  • ▶December (1)
    • Federal Circuit Upholds Patent Infringement Ruling Against Microsoft
  • ▶November (6)
    • Disputin Bout Rasputin: Beer Trademark Woes
    • Summary judgment granted to Apple in case against maker of Mac clones
    • How to guard Terms and Conditions agreements from being found unenforceable after Harris v. Blockbuster, Inc?
    • No Doubt Sues Activision Under Right of Publiciy Claim
    • Do Ringtones Played in Public Spaces Violate the Copyright Act?
    • Germany's Proposal to Protect Publishers
  • ▶October (6)
    • Is peer review the future of patent examination?
    • Google Tried to Settle Copyright Infringement Cases with $60 in China
    • Vermont Brewery Challenged by Monster Energy Drink Over Trademark
    • Controversial USPTO Rules Rescinded
    • Modest Recent Changes in UPTO Patent Examination Practices.
    • Trademarks get quacky.....
  • ▶April (2)
    • Looking to make a difference out of law school?
    • Conviction in The Pirate Bay Case
  • ▶March (1)
    • Wyeth v. Levine - Are we in for a world of ubiquitous black box warnings?
  • ▶January (3)
    • Pfizer Buys Wyeth, Industry Consolidates, IP Lawyers Rejoice
    • A win for end users: Apple (finally) goes DRM-free
    • A Shoveler's Manifesto: Can I Lay Claim To That Parking Space?
• ▶2008 (3)
  • ▶April (2)
    • The Game of E-Discovery
    • Privacy in Web-Based E-mail
  • ▶March (1)
    • How the Government Attributes Internet Traffic to a User
• ▶2007 (74)
  • ▶December (1)
    • Cool Queuing Theory Model Suggests Continuations Not the Problem at the PTO
  • ▶November (5)
    • Another Criticism on the Demise of OiNK (and the Problems of Class and Indie Rock)
    • Another Court Recognizes an Expectation of Privacy Over E-mail
    • Choosing Strong Passwords
    • Law Hacks
    • District Court Blocks PTO New Continuation & Claim Rules
  • ▶October (6)
    • Waffles! Hydra! Pink!
    • Extralegal Methods for Protecting Our Perceived File-Sharing Rights
    • Are US-Based OiNK Users at Risk for Legal Liability? And Why This Was a Smart Move by Big Music
    • OiNK File-Sharing Community Shut-Down
    • Using Facebook Status and Twitter for Work
    • Complaint filed to enjoin USPTO from implementing new rules
  • ▶September (11)
    • Make Your Own Noise-Reducing Headphones
    • Implementing Digital Signatures in Electronic Contracts
    • The Pirate Bay Files Criminal Complaint Against MediaDefender Clients for Hacking
    • Use a Single Space Between Two Sentences
    • Creative Control at Mass MoCA
    • The MediaDefender Debacle
    • Lifehack: Advice for Students on Taking Notes
    • Do process steps in a product-by-process claim serve as claim limitations?
    • first to invent vs. first to file
    • Proofreader in iWork Pages '08
    • Patent Local Rules
  • ▶August (2)
    • Why Do So Many Recycling Ideas End Up as Coasters?
    • What's Your .plan?
  • ▶July (7)
    • Bougainville - Intersection of Papua New Guinea and Iron & Wine
    • Judge Awards $102 M in Civil Damages Against FBI
    • Google Enjoined in Small Claims Suit
    • 101 Law Hacks
    • It Takes 714 Pounds of Coal to Run a Light Bulb for a Year
    • Obtaining a Tregor Tax Stamp
    • Tools for Legal Research
  • ▶June (3)
    • Bookmark Managing and Legal Research
    • Trade Secrets: Not Just IP Questions
    • I Can't Make You Buy that Horror Comic Book
  • ▶May (8)
    • WTS Epic Mount
    • Be Careful What You Say: You Might Just Get It
    • Federal Income Tax and Corporate Practice
    • Privacy of Electronic Communications in Massachusetts
    • Joost - A Beta Review
    • Woot: 5:31 8:00 8:07 7:34
    • Wishing Well
    • Supreme Court Opinion Links to Online Video
  • ▶April (6)
    • The Much Anticipated KSR Decision Is Finally Here
    • Fighting Speeding Tickets - The Cop's a No-Show?
    • MiT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age
    • Threadless and David and Goliath
    • S to the P to the A to the M
    • Plain Language in Court Documents
  • ▶March (12)
    • Podcasting and Second Life
    • Openness and Sudoku
    • Proper Legalese - Shall and Will
    • More Clipse Globalization
    • Boston Crime Map
    • A Wordpress Annoyance - Em- and En-Dashes
    • Reconsidering IPTF's Copyright Restrictions
    • Law Review Articles Citing Legal Blogs
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Wikipedia to Seek Proof of Credentials - But Why?
    • Professor Yen Goes Blogging
    • Even Clipse Goes Global
  • ▶February (11)
    • Practical Difficulties with Creative Commons Licensing
    • The Right to Protest--Second Life and World of Warcraft
    • Virtual Terrorism - the Second Life Liberation Army
    • Helpful Links for MPRE Preparation
    • Marijuana and Globalization
    • Citizendium - A Wikipedia Rival
    • Inter Alia's Blawg of the Day
    • MMORPG Power-Leveling and Rules in Virtual Worlds
    • Mercury Pollution from Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs)
    • Proper US Postal Addressing
    • The Cost of Drinking Bottled Water
  • ▶January (2)
    • Techdirt: Should Judges Cite Wikipedia?
    • File Naming Conventions
• ▶2006 (60)
  • ▶November (7)
    • BBC: "Musical copyright terms 'to stay'"
    • Wikipedia Explodes in China
    • Working with Law at the Ground Level
    • Virtual Worlds as Examples of Developing Economies
    • Flickr/Yahoo! Files Patent for "Interestingness"
    • NTP goes after Palm
    • One Court Decision Upholding An Expectation of Privacy in E-mails
  • ▶October (11)
    • Wolfram Mathematica Posters
    • A bitter fight brewing: Ethiopia and Starbucks clash over coffee
    • Congress Changes Daylight Savings - More Code to be Written
    • FirePay E-mails US Customers Regarding UIGEA
    • Virtual Economies Attract Real-World Tax Attention
    • Warner Re-Routing Copyright Violation Claims to Google
    • Google Re-Routing of Tor Requests
    • Intel One Step Closer to European Anti-Trust Charges
    • The Day Against DRM: DreamHost Releases Files Forever
    • SCOTUS dismisses LabCorp v. Metabolite
    • Slashdot | Google Denies Data In Brazil Orkut Case
  • ▶September (12)
    • Congress Investigating the Impact of University P2P Networks
    • Peer-to-Peer Developer Sues Record Companies - Yahoo! News
    • Protecting Interoperability under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
    • Aborigines win Australian land claim
    • "US Software Patents Hit Record High"
    • Americans Don't Want Net Neutrality
    • Warner Opens Video Library to YouTube
    • Professor Giving Up on Battling Internet-Facilitated Cheating
    • Hindsight Bias in Juries
    • One (or Five) Watt LED Light Bulbs
    • Construction of a Straw Bale Home
    • Let the Market Society Protect BitTorrent
  • ▶August (9)
    • Roadside Toilets: Gifts of "Valued Fertilizer"
    • Bluebook Citation to Wikipedia
    • Judges decide meaning of "Therapeutically Effective"
    • Wikimania 2006 - Kahle v. Gonzalez
    • URL Shortening for Legal Citations
    • Traditional Art and Patents
    • Weird Al's "You're Pitiful" Blocked by Atlantic Records; Plus How Little He Gets from iTunes
    • Copyright, schmoppyright. (and Robert Ryang's trailer of The Shining.)
    • Current Copyright Readings
  • ▶July (19)
    • YouTube: Looming Acquisitions
    • Al-Qaeda Swarms; Don't Knock the Value of LCD Technologies
    • Billy Bragg Applauds MySpace Update of Terms of Usage
    • If you love Designer Imposters fragrances.......
    • FSF Releases GPLv3 Discussion Draft
    • Coffee and Kittens
    • Kazaa Settles with the RIAA/MPAA; A New Opportunity for MySpace?
    • Idea Theft In Hollywood.
    • LA Times Article: Just Whose Idea Is It Anyway?
    • A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs
    • eBay Will Kill Google Checkout
    • Unpacking the EAR: Walkthrough for Determining Regulations per Country
    • Unpacking the EAR: Inheriting Export Licenses
    • The Berry Amendment and Integrated Circuits
    • Increase Generativity by Streamlining the Appliance
    • Using Joomla for an Online Law Journal
    • Porting the OSS Model to Developing Contexts
    • Microsoft Will Now Allow Rival Document Formats
    • Timeline of Major EFF Cases
  • ▶June (2)
    • Bruce Perens on Software Patent Lawsuits Against OSS
    • Obligatory First Post