tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79118152011-12-18T19:37:37.216-05:00DISCLAIMER: This information is provided solely for educational and informational purposes, and does not constitute legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is formed by communications with me. If you do require legal advice, I encourage you to consult an attorney who is actively engaged in the practice of law and who is admitted to the bar in your jurisdiction.Nivine K. Zakharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12105942216879970083noreply@blogger.comBlogger1291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7911815.post-38875747458901823762008-11-09T22:49:00.004-05:002008-11-09T23:03:24.796-05:00

Image source: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/gallery.asp

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No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.-- despair.com

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I couldn't help notice Congressman Roscoe Bartlett's comments during Bill Gates' testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology.the other huge challenge we face is the challenge of getting more of our best and brightest into careers as science, math and engineering. Increasingly as I talk to audiences and ask our kids what degrees they're going to pursue - they're pursuing what I

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It's hard to believe almost a year has gone by since I've had the chance to blog, but life has a way of reprioritizing what you do with your free time, whether you want it to or not. An update may be in order.I've been spending most of this year in Florida, making up for some lost time with family and geeking out on some really cool technical projects. I managed to squeeze in enough study time

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A career-limiting move? I'm thrilled I can moveTech Central Station has an update today on an Egyptian blogger (and former law student) jailed in Alexandria for speaking his mind.Kareem Amer was remanded to over a month in prison for allegedly "defaming the President of Egypt" and "highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt." Where did Amer commit these supposed felonies

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everybody knows I'm an elf.

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I chose Blogger as my publishing platform a couple years ago for several reasons, but one thing that has been noticeably absent compared to other popular alternatives is being able to categorize my posts. I finally moved to Blogger beta this weekend (one of the smoothest migrations I've ever seen) where they now support post "labels" to help filter by topic as well as chronologically. Now with

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I thought last year's patent lawyer murder-suicide was a rarity. This year, not only did we have the "vigilante" patent lawyer allegedly killing his neighbor, but today this week we also hear of a Chicago patent lawyer's client killing two attorneys and another firm employee before being fatally shot himself by police.[the client] told witnesses before he was shot that he had been cheated over a

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or What Big Mama's kids learnThe Houston Association of REALTORS® (HAR) has an award-winning website for many good reasons. Over the past couple weeks I've had the pleasure of sitting in on some very informative sessions covering the use of technology in the real estate sales process. I continue to be amazed at the wealth of information and tools available not only to HAR members, but also to

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Wow! The Coogs haven't had a season like this since I was a freshman undergrad (1990). I'm getting all teary-eyed and sentimental just thinking about it...

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you did all your holiday shopping online on Thanksgiving (buying incredibly priced computers, cell phones, and software, of course) and decided to spend Black Friday analyzing USPTO Patent filing statistics. As if that were not bad enough, if you felt compelled to comment further on the flamebait CNet threw out with their Top 10 Girl Geeks list - you are truly hopeless. A Black Friday, indeed.

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The State Bar of Texas has published its latest list of Texas lawyers and law students actively blogging about the law, their practices, their careers, and life in general.Should your blog be there, too? Let them know.

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When the USPTO moved to more convenient computer-based testing through Prometric, I thought it was a great way to make the patent agent/attorney registration process more accessible to people who might not otherwise be able to accommodate the travel and schedule required for traditional testing (only once or twice a year in Virginia was it? Talk about barriers to entry). The problem, though,

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and you, too, will soon get your gold Bar card.State Bar of Texas President Martha S. Dickie addresses the audience during the New Lawyer Induction Ceremony in Austin, Texas. Justices from the Supreme Court of Texas (front) and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (back) presided.

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I hinted before that I did not have the chance to study like I intended for the Texas Bar Exam. The thought of withdrawing actually did cross my mind, BUT, I knew I could still attend the exam administration. Now that I know my overall and MBE scaled scores, I have to conclude that being able to type the MPT and Texas essays (accounting for half the score) really made a difference when I was

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The geek in me could not resist taking a look at the July 2006 Texas Bar stats. UHLC #s highlighted here.

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Thank you all. Really.

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I've been surprised by how many folks are looking for Texas Bar exam results here. After running across this post at The Uncivil Litigator, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. If you really have doubts about your exam performance, just read some of the comments there. Pass or fail, in the long run, you'll be fine. Really.

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And we STILL don't know who passed the Texas Bar Exam...Although, for the benefit of those who may not have been successful on this last attempt, part of me seems to prefer the Florida Bar's approach: list results by applicant file # only in less than 2 months.If you must know more licensing exam trivia, the Texas Real Estate Commission's exams give you immediate results once you've completed

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Thanks to Carolyn Elefant at Legal Blog Watch for pointing out the USA Today story on an $11 million verdict rendered in an internet defamation case.It's unfortunate that similar damages from whisper campaigns are harder to prove.[UPDATE: corrected reference to another blogger defamation case here]

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What women need to succeedBusiness is tough. Business in the tech sector is even tougher. Recent news events have reminded me of some of the tough lessons I learned many years ago, even during the dotcom boom. There is just no way around having to deal with the stereotypes and macho culture women still face in IT. The stereotypes include the false choice between beauty and brains. If a woman

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About a year ago, "Lexorati" sounded like a good name for identifying the legal digerati. Either that, or an as yet unveiled Japanese-Italian luxury car. The bonus is it rhymes with my last name and the central "O" is versatile in graphics, as evidenced by logo sample # 1, above. "What's the point, Nivine?" you might ask. Well, life's just too short not to love what you do most of the time.

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I thought it was amusing when I heard some state Bars consider each page on a firm's website a separate ad subject to review, but now it seems New York is considering expanding the rule to cover blogs. Read the ABA Journal report.This is another reason why the decision to practice law can be very difficult for students who have lived and worked online for several years, including yours truly.

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Thanks to Craig Rickard for getting the UH Alumni Group off the ground at LinkedIn. For those of you who haven't joined yet, you might be surprised who else is already LinkedIn. Although the group was started by Bauer College of Business alumni, all Cougars are welcome to join in.I was fortunate to already know some LinkedIn Open Networkers (LIONs) who put me in touch with some long, lost

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The admissions staff at UHLC started their own blog with updates on this year's application process and posts from current students for a glimpse of life at UHLC these days. You'll even find links to more blogs by current students, professors, and alumni like yours truly. (I'm still trying to get used to the idea of being an alum, myself!)

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...random thought...There must be something in those SBUX drinks that keeps "Love What You Do" on my mind these days (or maybe it's the persistent reminder on every receipt?). It's frustrating being in limbo while you're waiting on exam results, but perhaps the delay is meant for some to more seriously consider the next step in the journey. The thing is, no matter how well one might have done in

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It's been a grueling week, but the verdict is in - I am glad I typed the Texas Bar Exam.Tuesday morning we just had the MPT to type in a 90 minute session. The Texas Procedure & Evidence exam was still handwritten in short 5 line paragraph responses to 40 questions. After 90 minutes of that, I could tell my hand just could not handle a full 6 hour essay writing session like we had today. The

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I was fortunate to start law school a few years ago in the same section with Robert A. Allen. We had several courses together, including our 2nd Civil Procedure course this past spring. Robert could always be counted on to draw on his wealth of knowledge and life experience to make a significant contribution to discussions, whether online or offline. He was truly brilliant and always had a

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The conduct of a lawyer should be characterized at all times by honesty, candor, and fairness. In fulfilling his or her primary duty to a client, a lawyer must be ever mindful of the profession's broader duty to the legal system.The Supreme Court of Texas and the Court of Criminal Appeals are committed to eliminating a practice in our State by a minority of lawyers of abusive tactics which have

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In this edition of Texas PolicyCast, John Stossel discusses his television career, public education, and the value of the free market. See previous excerpts from his book, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity.

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IV. LAWYER AND JUDGELawyers and judges owe each other respect, diligence, candor, punctuality, and protection against unjust and improper criticism and attack. Lawyers and judges are equally responsible to protect the dignity and independence of the Court and the profession.1. I will always recognize that the position of judge is the symbol of both the judicial system and administration of

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So much to study, so little time.[UPDATE] v2 shows actual testing time v. time reserved for instructions/administration.

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III. LAWYER TO LAWYERA lawyer owes to opposing counsel, in the conduct of legal transactions and the pursuit of litigation, courtesy, candor, cooperation, and scrupulous observance of all agreements and mutual understandings. Ill feelings between clients shall not influence a lawyer's conduct, attitude, or demeanor toward opposing counsel. A lawyer shall not engage in unprofessional conduct in

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II. LAWYER TO CLIENTA lawyer owes to a client allegiance, learning, skill, and industry. A lawyer shall employ all appropriate means to protect and advance the client's legitimate rights, claims, and objectives. A lawyer shall not be deterred by any real or imagined fear of judicial disfavor or public unpopularity, nor be influenced by mere self-interest.1. I will advise my client of the contents

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I am honored to be the recipient of this year's State Bar of Texas Law Student Division Professionalism Award. I appreciate all the kind words from folks I've had the chance to meet and work with over the past year. It's flattering to be recognized by the State Bar for anything when you're just a student, but I do have a confession to make: I am not perfect. Sure, I (like many other students)

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You can find the answer to that question in the latest issue of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal (34 AIPLA Q. J. 1 (2006)). UHLC Prof Paul M. Janicke and 2005 alum LiLan Ren reviewed the decisions of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals over a 3 year period (2002-04) to identify the most significant factors affecting the outcome of patent infringement cases. Is there really a home court advantage? Was

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Why should you run vanity searches on your name and your company or firm? Every once in a while you might find something is publicly accessible that shouldn't be. For example, I recently discovered a company (let's just call them "Ted's") posted what should have been internal vendor data on a publicly accessible page that was already cached by Google. "What, pray tell, could possibly be on

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Many law students may already be familiar with ExamSoft's SofTest, which restricts laptop use to a controlled environment for secure test administration. What many may not know is that you can continue to use ExamSoft for essay portions of the Texas bar exam, also, but at a price. Not only do you have to pay an additional $50 laptop fee to the BLE when you register, but you also need a separate

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It's been a couple years since I updated my LinkedIn profile and I see they've added quite a few features since then. I doubt I'll have as many connections as Andrew "Flip" Filipowski anytime soon (18,190 and counting!), but the enhanced colleague and classmate searches sure make things a lot easier. Should we be connected? Let me know.

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That's the working title for a paper I'm close to wrapping up in my Women & Health Law seminar this semester. Thanks to Profs Krause and Tovino at the UH Health Law & Policy Institute, I've had the chance to learn more about health privacy issues in general, HIPAA in-depth, and particular concerns about women's healthcare this semester.So, what do mothers-to-be have in common with suspected

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AP writer Kathy Matheson reports on how more professors, particularly in law schools, are resorting to outright bans on laptops in class. The instructors cite lack of attentiveness and a noticeable decrease in class performance, among other reasons. Geek that I am, I doubt I surprise anyone by taking issue with these blanket policies.As I am in the midst of finals, I have to say that my typed

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I usually don't make book recommendations here, but this one looks too good to pass up:Some worthwhile excerpts are available on the ABCNews site, including:MYTH: Gas prices are going through the roof.TRUTH: Gasoline is a bargain.Not only are there instant inflation calculators on the Web, but the U.S. Department of Energy accounts for inflation in its annual report of gas prices. At the time I'm

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Pam Smith of The Recorder reports what happened to temporary - and now former - San Francisco prosecutor Jay Kuo once the judge in his case found out about his "juvenile, obnoxious and unprofessional" behavior via Kuo's livejournal blog.The contents of the blog posts were not available online Wednesday, but according to Karnow's ruling, Kuo at various points called his opposing counsel "chicken"

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School will be presenting an interesting symposium this Friday, "the first scholarly conference on the impact of blogs on the legal academy."Not near Harvard this weekend? No worries. The symposium will be webcast LIVE for FREE (thanks to Microsoft). Papers to be presented at the symposium are also available from a dedicated page at

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Thanks to VC, I discovered this list at 3L Epiphany of case opinions that cite blogs. Ian Best, the 3L from Ohio State that maintains the blog, did a great job of providing the context in which each citation was made. In at least a few cases, the references are no longer valid because the web addresses have already changed, e.g., volokh.com started out using Google's Blogger with the address

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While many current and future law students are still trying to decipher the latest USNWR rankings, The Princeton Review maintains some interesting lists of its own. I happened to run across their site and notice that, although UHLC hasn't made a Top 10 list at TPR, some other Texas law schools have, including:University of Texas at Austin ranks #10 for Toughest to Get IntoSouthern Methodist

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At UHLC these days, it's hard not to know the 2007 USN&WR Law School rankings came out earlier this month. Unfortunately for us, our overall ranking dropped again to #70, although we still rank 2nd in Health Law overall, and 5th in Intellectual Property overall (a slight drop from last year's).Based on the USN&WR ranking methodology, the lawyer/judge assessment seems to be a significant factor (

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For those of you who have been wondering why I've been so quiet (other than reporting on recent ABA meetings), I just recently completed my judicial internship with the Texas First Court of Appeals in Houston. Fellow interns and I were presented with beautiful certificates during a recognition ceremony at the courthouse today and I am eager to have mine framed for my office. The Justices, their

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I was fortunate to get to sit in on the class arbitration update yesterday, where we heard from Ballard Spahr Partner Alan Kaplinsky, UNLV Law Prof Jean Sternlight, and AAA General Counsel Eric Tuchmann on the latest developments in class arbitration proceedings. I finally had the opportunity to personally thank Mr. Kaplinsky and Prof. Sternlight for being such valuable resources while I was

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Today was the big day at the 8th ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's Spring meeting in Atlanta. After the final round of the Representation in Mediation Competition, the winners from Arizona State University, coached by Bruce Meyerson, were presented with their award during the luncheon. Congrats also to Coach Dennis Sharp's team from American University Washington College of Law for making it

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Well, I had a lot more detail to report on from the opening of the ABA DR Section's Spring Meeting, but the blogging powers that be decided to wipe out my first draft of this post. Suffice it to say, I got to sit in on some interesting sessions today on ODR and eDiscovery, as well as the afternoon plenary session "When Mediators Manipulate." I was a bit bothered to see some neutrals willing to

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As if last week's ABA Section of Antitrust Law spring meeting in Washington were not enough excitement (here, here, and here), I'm in Atlanta this week for the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's (DR) Spring meeting. I'm hoping to catch some sessions on online dispute resolution (ODR) and class arbitrations, a couple of my favorite topics in the area. The Section dinner later this week is going

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Information about next week's USPTO Town Hall meeting @ UHLC is available here. Background and presentation materials from last month's Town Hall meeting in Chicago are also available here.The third Town Hall Meeting on the proposed rule changes for claims and continuations will be held March 22 in Houston, Texas. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the University of

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CNet News reports on the appeal by local Houston IP attorney, Kenneth Nash, in his patent infringement case against Microsoft. Judge Kenneth Hoyt granted Microsoft's MSJ last year.Speaking of... Judge Arthur Gajarsa, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will be speaking in Houston later this month on "Patents in a Changing Economy." The UH IPIL 2006 Baker Botts lecture is Tuesday, March 28,

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The slip opinion for this previously mentioned Supreme Court case is now available online.

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Prof Volokh mentions an article about a criminal defense attorney who advises his client to lie via email. One email says in part: "they won't have anyone there to testify how much you had to drink. You won't be charged with perjury. I've never seen them charge anyone with perjury, and everybody lies in criminal cases, including the cops. If you want to tell the truth, then we'll just plead

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The terrorist threat to our country will not expire in two weeks. -- Pres Bush

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The hosts of CyberWeek opened up registration for their 5th annual online dispute resolution competition, ICODR, that will include mediation, negotiation, arbitration, and litigation problems resolved entirely ONLINE.This looks like a great opportunity for both students and faculty to familiarize themselves with some of the technology available to facilitate dispute resolution with participants

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As mentioned on Legal Blog Watch, Dallas attorney & CEO Michael Gorton's letter to Atlas Legal praises them for their blue chip service at 1/10th the blue chip rate through the miraculous cost-saving measure of outsourcing legal services:“Your group saved me nearly 90%, AND completed the work in less than half the time. For clarification, the research you did in less than one month, saved

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While Tom Kirkendall points out some critical missing info in the latest Chron article about the Univ of Houston, I will add my 2 cents on why I ended up here in 1990 - and stayed.The article only briefly mentions the Honors College, which, thanks to Dean Ted Estess and others, did a great job of recruiting me as a pre-med undergrad back in 1990 (before they were considered a "college" of their

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Here's how my AIPLA membership more than pays for itself: the 2005 Report of the Economic Survey. Released every other year, the AIPLA Report of the Economic Survey is the most comprehensive and reliable review of incomes and demographics of intellectual property law attorneys and associated practitioners. It examines billing rates and charges across a variety of significant characteristics and

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The NYTimes had an interesting follow-up to John Seigenthaler's USA Today op/ed on the false information included in his Wikipedia "biography."Turns out a Nashville delivery manager made the changes to pull a prank on a friend of Seigenthaler's. He naturally thought Wikipedia was a gag site to start with since it let him make the changes without any verification. Worse yet, the false

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Yes, that's right. Egypt is taking on India to be the "Call Center Capital" of the world according to CRMBuyer's story Monday. This coincides with the opening of Oracle Global Support center at Xceed, a part of Cairo's rapidly expanding Smart Village.Cairo has long been a valuable hub for activity in the EMEA divisions of global organizations like ORCL, MSFT, and HPQ. It's nice to see they're

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The Int'l Herald Tribune has an article on proposed criminal penalties for IP infringement under consideration in the EU. The EC wants to show it's serious about IP enforcement to protect inventors and promote innovation, BUTSome of the biggest patent owners have themselves been accused of patent infringement. Microsoft owns around 5,000 patents and is currently fighting 32 infringement claims,

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The DOJ released a statement regarding the Korean FTC's ruling against Microsoft today. The Korean FTC wants to impose similar remedies as the European Commission did last year, requiring an alternate version of Windows without Windows Media Player or Windows Messenger. This comes even after European sales show consumers and vendors do not want the minimalist version of Windows. See Scott

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TechnoLawyer's IP Memes had an interesting post on the use of Wikipedia references in prior art searches for some patent applications (A search of the PTO database for the term wikipedia currently has 17 hits).Geek that I am, I've used wikis on occasion as collaboration tools for geographically dispersed workgroups. Twiki is usually the wiki package I think of first, perhaps because my

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I wanted to share something that I worked on over the summer when I was fortunate enough to take a course from Prof William J. Winslade, author of Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury: Devastation, Hope, and Healing (Yale Univ. Press 1998).In a previous life, I was a pre-med undergrad and got an early start in the healthcare field volunteering and working at a Florida VAMC. For various reasons, I

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do I have any buyers?I thought not.

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Once you've shown how easy it is to be an eLawyer, clients will soon realize it's just as easy to get eLawyers from another country. Thanks to Legal Blog Watch for the offshore legal services updates.My comments on Gates' take on IP, Outsourcing

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Why a law degree may be more of a prerequisite for corporate developers than a computer science degree:Microsoft supports the right of a developer to make use of any license and highly recommends that you get appropriate legal advice regarding your choice of source code license. At least the choice has been narrowed down to three:Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) Microsoft Community License (

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The University of Massachusetts Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Internetbar are hosting their 8th Cyberweek, a virtual bar meeting to discuss online legal issues. Topics include eLawyering, Ethics, and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). Now that's my kind of bar meeting!

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BlawgReview 26 mentions Jack Balkins' post, More Proof that Blogging Can Be a Form of Scholarship, which took me to the UChicago faculty's foray into blogging (on TypePad, no less). I, of course, am glad to see more faculty taking the opportunity to share their latest thoughts online without necessarily posting a draft paper for comments on SSRN. I wonder if Washington & Lee's legal journal

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MicroLaw has a site setup to match those able to offer technology assistance to lawyers affected by Katrina. Visit http://www.helpkatrinalawyers.org/ for more info.

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I'm flattered to be included in this month's Texas Bar Journal technology section, next to Tom Mighell's article on the latest tools for internet research. He has even more tips & tricks on his internet legal research blog, Inter-Alia.

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As previously mentioned, the FTC's petition to the SCOTUS, appealing the 11th Cir decision in the Schering K-Dur case, is now available online.Interesting note: this is only the 3rd time the FTC is representing itself before the SCOTUS. See n.1.

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Thanks to Prof Smith at the Conglomerate for pointing out Prof Lydia Loren's new blog, LC CyberBlog. She will be teaching a CyberLaw course at Lewis and Clark this semester.

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Steven Pearlstein at the Washington Post has an interesting take on the recent K-Dur drug case decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta.Although Schering-Plough is headquartered in New Jersey and Upsher in Minnesota, they filed their case with the conservative appeals court in Atlanta -- a blatant example of forum shopping for which plaintiffs' lawyers are often criticized. As it happened

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Something to consider if you're just starting (or already in) law school and thinking of taking the patent bar: at least one of our patent law/prosecution professors grades on a separate curve for registered patent agents (much like LLMs). You might be at a disadvantage if you crammed and passed the patent bar over the summer hoping to coast thru a patent law or prosecution course the following

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Dennis Crouch at the Patently-O blog is summarizing the amici briefs filed on this case before the Supreme Court this fall.QUESTION PRESENTEDWhether, in an action under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, alleging that the defendant engaged in unlawful tying by conditioning a patent license on the licensee's purchase of a non-patented good, the plaintiff must prove as part of its

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The mysterious Blawg Review editor setup a Google Map for everyone to post their locations and it's pretty neat. You've got to zoom in to street level to place yourself accurately, but the response time is pretty good on a broadband connection. This ought to come in handy for a few things...

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Today is my TLG blog's anniversary and I promised myself I wouldn't get too sentimental about it, but it's hard not to look back over the year's posts and wonder whether I am the same person who started this a year ago. Being a part-time 2L turned out to be even more challenging than my 1L year. I feel like I've crossed the Rubicon between being a technology consultant to legal counsel - but

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I have been appointed as the ABA Law Student Division Liaison to the Section of Antitrust Law for 2005-06. I have another blog to report on those activities with other Antitrust Law geeks across the country.Antitrust law and competition policy has been an interest of mine for several years (thanks to MSFT and, more recently, INTC), so it is not a new area for techlawgeekin'. Unfortunately, my

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I've been neglecting this blog recently, but the Chronicle of Higher Education had an interesting article from a member of a faculty search committee (probably not for a law school from the sound of it). In any case, it was a humorous reminder of the critical question blawggers should ask themselves before posting, Why?As I've mentioned before, blogs are a great way to communicate, but blawggers

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USA Today reports on the European Parliament vote today to reject the "software patent directive" 648 to 14.Better no directive than a bad directive-- Tony Robinson, spokesman for the SocialistsRead the full story here

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"This was unexpected," said Jonas Maebe of the FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure), which opposes software patents. "We didn't think we would win everything, but we didn't think it would be this bad. Formally nothing is lost, but of course this is a pretty serious signal that the proponents of software patents are quite strong in the Parliament." eWeek story here

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VC relayed Ambivalent Imbroglio's concerns regarding blogging about his summer job. This brings up a host of separate issues regarding attorney-client privilege and maintaining employer confidences that our infamous Dutch law grad need not have contemplated even with his misdirected missive. I guess for now the rule I'll be following when I start my job next week is that if I were a reporter on

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Our local news stations have been busy reporting on an apparent murder-suicide involving two lawyers, one in-house patent attorney, the other a contractor, at Cooper Cameron this morning.It's an unfortunate incident that still needs time for a full investigation to uncover all the details, but it does remind me of two issues that may be overlooked during law school: Lawyer's Assistance Programs (

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Reuters reports on Bill Gates' criticism of current H1-B visa caps preventing skilled workers from entering the country. "The whole idea of the H-1B visa thing is, don't let too many smart people come into the country. The whole thing doesn't make sense"As Patrick Ross notes, weak IP protection in other countries may be a significant reason why MSFT would rather import its workers than send their

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Dennis Crouch has some useful information and comments at the Patently-O blawgEngineers and scientists usually do pretty well on the LSAT and often end up with the following law school options: Attend a highly-ranked law school; Attend a lower-ranked law school with a renown intellectual property program; or Attend a lower-ranked law school as a night student and continue making money during

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Since distance education is high on my priority list, this particular story caught my eye, not so much because the misdirected email was forwarded along, but because of the continuing implicit assumption that similar oral communications do not occur and are not also similarly relayed-- worse yet, inaccurately.AP via Yahoo reporting on what might be an innocuous email faux pas by American

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Virtual PC has been around for several years, mostly for Mac users to emulate Windows, but after Microsoft bought Connectix ~2 years ago, more emphasis has been placed on using the VPC to emulate other operating systems on a Windows host. MSDN subscriptions have also included VPC and it has been a huge timesaver. Now Ballmer's announcement confirms that Microsoft recognizes virtualization as an

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ZDNet Australia reports on Tridgell's keynote presentation at Linux.conf.au 2005 in Canberra:Tridgell particularly sought to reject claims that he had somehow violated the proprietary BitKeeper code by reverse-engineering its metadata formats for use in an open source client, thus leading BitKeeper to revoke the Linux development community's licence. To cheers from the 500-strong audience,

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AP via Yahoo reporting on DeLay's comments re Justice Kennedy's research habits..."We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States? That's just outrageous," DeLay told Fox News Radio. "And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."Some of my law

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by ZDNet's Joe Brockmeier -- Microsoft seems to realize that many people take its sponsored studies with a grain of salt. So, why would the folks in Redmond -- or any other vendor, for that matter -- go to the trouble to finance a study that they know will be dismissed as biased? Microsoft knows [...]

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Linus Torvalds, Linux creator/coordinator, defends his position on dropping BitKeeper due to an alleged violation of the licensing terms by Andrew TridgellHe didn't create something new and impressive. He justtore down something new (and impressive) because he could,and rather than helping others, he screwed people over.And you expect me to _respect_ that kind of behaviour?***what I find sad is

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AP/Yahoo reportsMicrosoft Corp. will pay computer maker Gateway Inc. $150 million over four years to end a long-running legal dispute, and Gateway says it will use the money to market and develop products that run Microsoft software. ***Over the past two years, Microsoft has spent some $3 billion to settle private antitrust lawsuits filed by Time Warner Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Be Inc. and

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LinuxInsider commentary from Michael Lee on the benefits of software patentability.Patents promote innovation. Patents give software companies more incentive to invest in R&D because they allow those companies to protect their inventions. Without patents, a company cannot effectively prevent competitors from incorporating its software inventions into competing products...It's not that software

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if you believe a software company has broken competition law, be prepared to rewrite its products yourself

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The 2006 Grad School rankings are out, and the University of Houston Law Center continues to be near the top in the specialty areas of Intellectual Property (4th) and Health Law (2nd)! Bravo! [UPDATE] My take on the 2007 rankings [/UPDATE]

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Prof Volokh mentioned some of the criteria he uses to determine whether to blog on current events. It might also be a useful guide for practitioners and students to decide what to mention in their blawgs. One shouldn't underestimate the amount of time it takes to write a thoughtful analysis on a particular topic, but then it doesn't take as much effort to accumulate resources for your

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