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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Banned Books Week
A happy Banned Books Week to you. Please support the American Library Association in drawing attention to the attempts of close minded individuals that continue to try and keep us and our children from reading books. To those vigilante censors … Continue reading
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Man bites dog (or something to that effect)
Lime wire, the file sharing system that became popular with teens looking for free music is counter suing the record labels. (see the full story on Findlaw). The record labels sued Lime Wire for $150k per illegally transferred song. Some … Continue reading
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Test of youtube
Sorry for the station break, but we can't seem to get Youtube and wordpress to play nicely. Maybe it's because wordpress is in love with Lucas and it didn't like my earlier comments. As a result, WP banished the sidebar … Continue reading
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Supernova Settles
A while back, we talked about the show Rock Star: Supernova. This years version of Rock Star: INXS. In R/S Supernova, Tommy Lee and crew were looking for a new lead singer to front their new band. Well Supernova ran … Continue reading
AIPLA Writing Competition
The AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association) is sponsoring a writing competition on: “Issues relative to fair use and the research exemption in intellectual property.” The winning prize is $2000. The article has to be written between July 2006 and … Continue reading
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New England IP Conferences
IHA is a bit persnickety tonight, not sure what it is (though it could be the three final exams that took place this week….six hours of essays – oy vey!). Rather than let this turn into a rant, lets keep … Continue reading
Multi-Jurisdictional Mock Patent Trial
IHA was lucky enough last week to attend a Mock Patent Trial held at Harvard Law School. The event was sponsored by the law firm Wilmer Hale. This event was somewhat unique in that it was a multi-jurisdictional seminar. Four … Continue reading
Lions and Tigers and Bears…oh my!
Last night IHA took Agent J out to her guitar lesson. On the way out, I took a bag of garbage that someone had considerately left at the back door out to the trash. Around 7:45-ish we return home and as we pull … Continue reading
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On copyrights and RSS
Many thanks to Denise Howell for her thought provoking comments on a post a couple of days ago on copyright holder rights in the age of RSS feeds. It definitely provided some more food for thought. As there is quite … Continue reading
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Competitive patent wiki
Back in the old days, the way we would track competitive patents was painfully tedious. It involved reviewing the weekly edition of the USPTO Official Gazette, skimming the art classes that you were interested in, and ordering copies of the … Continue reading
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