[Cross-posted from First Movers; comments off here but on over there.]
In the Contracts and Civ Pro classes I just finished yesterday, laptops were banned and ’strongly discouraged’, respectively. At the beginning of the semester, I described this as understandable but ‘regressive and damaging’, so I thought it was fair to revisit this, especially since Prof. [...]
The (very good) Trademark Blog discussing a list of TV catchphrases, some of which may have potentially acquired trademarkable status:
Moralists will note that two catchphrases on the list end in ‘Bitch!’, including Dave Chapelles’ ‘I’m Rick James, Bitch!”, which, coincidentally, is how our firm signs its demand letters.
Mouse art. Heh. (From the very cool eyebeam.)
I have on my bag a half-pound bag of chocolate-covered espresso beans, likely the first of many. It is that time of year. Apologies in advance for not responding to emails, blog posts, personal appeals from family, etc., etc., etc.- I’ll be high on caffeine and fear.
Krissa got a job she’s really excited about at Greenmarket, the organization that runs all of New York’s Farmer’s Markets. Their website is a real mess, but here it is. I’m excited she’s got this weight off her shoulders, and she’s excited to be able to help people improve the quality and sourcing of the [...]
Seeing this (wherein the author leaves suse for kubuntu as a result of the recent hubbub) reminds me that Ubuntu still has no clear patent policy that I can find, nor are they (again, as far as I can tell) contributing to some of the anti-patent work being done by others. Compare to Red Hat’s [...]
I had a great time in Boston over Thusday and Friday, seeing friends and discussing software patents. I was pleasantly surprised to see that despite being held at a law school, many (perhaps nearly half?) of the speakers at the software conference were not lawyers, but rather economists and others.
I took copious notes, but haven’t [...]
Things I spotted while putting off my real work:
Biella Coleman, talking about bringing free software perspectives to other domains. I used to get irritated when people said ‘oh, this is just like open source!’ but I’m getting more positive about it. Our discourse is so saturated with the notion of the market that an alternate [...]
This came to me in the shower, which means it is probably a terrible idea:
Legal English as She Is Spoke- From Legalese to Hackerese, by Way of English
or
How The Legal System is Worse Than You’d Feared
or
How The Legal System is Better Than You’d Hoped
As Jeff would say, book your tickets now.
Looking forward to spending the next two nights in Cambridge- am going to a software patent mini-conference with some neat speakers, including Mark Webbink (Red Hat General Counsel), Eric Von Hippel of MIT, and Dan Ravicher and Richard Fontana of SFLC. Should be a fun 48 hours. I have no idea what my Thursday and [...]
