All the suntan lotion in the world…
[Note: This post was quoted by the New York Times. Cool, huh? — RDC] Yesterday I was here, in the stupidestly-designed courthouse on God’s brutally-baked... Read more
Category: Law Practice and Profession
Anonymous victim
The Anonymous Lawyer seems to have hit some sort of new plateau. Read more
Ninth Circuit Confessions
Bill Patry expresses the wonder of it all: “I confess to being baffled by the Ninth Circuit’s repeated inability to read the Copyright Act”! In... Read more
Dozier Internet Law: The Internet’s loose legal cannon
They’re back: A Virginia lawyer used intimidation and bullying tactics, including spurious trademark infringement and defamation claims, to shut down a Web site that criticized... Read more
Pleading the kitchen sink
Is it true that, when it comes to pleadings, including both affirmative claims and affirmative defenses, you can’t go wrong by including more — indeed,... Read more
It’s fun to stay at the U-N-T-A!
Last year there was much Strum und Drang here about INTA — sorry, I mean The I-N-T-A!, which stands for International Trademark Association! now there’s... Read more
The law school crackup
I haven’t written a super whole bunch about the question of attending law school here lately, but I have written. But then there’s what Elie... Read more
Hackers with Grey Hats
Two different sources alerted me to this story that is near and dear. That link to Shlashdot comes from my friend at the Sapiens Cogito... Read more
The “Rube Goldberg” of sanctions motions
Woodrow Pollock reports on the “the Rube Goldberg” of sanctions motions in an IP case — a skein of intertwined Rule 11 motions, counter-motions and what-have-you’s over... Read more
Email this!
I don’t know which is the more important block quote of the two in this post by Pamela Chestek, the one I am about to... Read more
2004: A Year of Musical Chairs for IP Law Bigshots
There’s a very good roundup of the major changes in the landscape of the big-time IP (read: pretty much patents) practice, including the evaporation of... Read more
Lowenstein story
This morning I attended a breakfast seminar on insurance issues relating to technology, two areas of my interest and practice, sponsored by Lowenstein Sandler PC,... Read more
Fool’s gold
The Internet changes everything right? Not this: A fool and his money — especially the kind paid to consultants — are still soon parted: Pre-Internet,... Read more
Love is blue. Litigation is love. Litigation is war. Love is war. War is Blue.
The fallacy, of course, is not only in affirming the consequent plus no small amount of equivocation, but in the probable falsehood of the second... Read more