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Upgraded to WP 3.0

It went smoothly….hum, maybe I should post here more often….

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IP Management Tools

Some changes are being made to the site. This morning an “IP Management Tools” page was added. This is a page where the various tools that I’ve made or acquired over the years can be found. Most relate to the … Continue reading

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Lots of headlines

Lots of interesting headlines lately: The Pope doesn’t believe in the vigorous protection of intellectual property rights: Obviously he is unaware of how bad it would be for the world (rich and poor alike), if companies kept their inventions secret … Continue reading

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Audio IP learning

For those of you with long commutes, here are some additional free audio sources for IP.  Try not to fall asleep while listening CAFC oral arguments for selected cases: http://oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov/searchscript.asp . IP ThinkTank has podcasts of international IP issues:  http://duncanbucknell.com/ IHA

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Location, location, location

Real estate agents tell me that the value of property is driven by location.  I guess the same could be said of IP. According to the Washington Post, Activision and Linden Labs the makers of virtual worlds World of Warcraft … Continue reading

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New Years resolution

One of my resolutions for this year was to blog more and focus the writing on patent and IP related news and commentary.  The goal is to blog five times per week with a stretch goal of writing every day.  … Continue reading

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Free IP CLE

If you are looking for some high quality continuing legal education credits (CLE) in CA or NY or just want to learn more about intellectual property, check out the Intellectual Property Colloquium.  Episodes 2 and 3 were fantastic (Episode 1 … Continue reading

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XLUS – a new data analysis tool

Here’s a little secret we can keep between us…I’m a patent data junkie.  Ok, I’ve admitted it, now maybe there is a ten step program that I can join. In the mean time, Japan Today reported a new analysis tool … Continue reading

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Apple files swipe patent application

There is some rumblings in the blogosphere about Apple filing a patent application on the technology behind making swipe gestures on devices, such as the iPhone. The application published as US20080316183 on Christmas day. A quick search shows that Apple … Continue reading

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Upgrade

If you can see this, then the upgrade was successful. We upgraded from MySQL4 to MySQL5 and also upgraded WordPress from v2.6 to v2.7.

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