Hi Friends, As promised… here is the Conrad Johnson – Jimi Hendrix montage of multimedia, legal education and Google. As you may know, Conrad runs the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at Columbia Law School. He also plays guitar. Conrad talks about his Creating Multi-Purpose Content for…
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Hi Friends, Here are some photos from the Jurist 10th aniversry conference. Jurist’s Bernard Hibbitts opens the conference. Terry Davis, Secretary General, Council of Europe via Video Geoffrey Corn makes a point about US prisioner policy, while Jonathan Freiman listens. ALM’s Tony Mauro. He did not know who Bruce was…
If you’ve never heard of ConnectU, you are not alone. In a case of Ivy League intringue, ConnectU filed suit against Facebook for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets, among other charges. The story goes that ConnectU, formerly known as the Harvard Connection, had engaged Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg…
UPDATE: Looks like the USPTO is working on fixing the ability to have permanent links and bookmarks to individual patents. Hi Friends, Here is some interesting news… the United State Patent and Trademark Office has broken all of the static URLs of links to patents. In fact you can not…
Yesterday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposed a “new fee structure” to fund a modernized immigration service. Of course, in governmentspeak, a new fee structure can only mean higher fees. 🙂 Actually, USCIS did propose waiving the current $270 fee for T Nonimmigrant Status applicants, who are victims of…
The Daily Business Review reported on a federal class action settlement by Sharper Image over its air purifiers. Unfortunately, for Sharper Image, Judge Cecilia Altonaga denied the settlement without prejudice. Fortunately, for us, Sharper Image had filed the Settlement Agreement already with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Here are…
As many recent homeowners have discovered, the only mortgage that offers a predictable payment plan is the 30-year fixed. Sure, the interest rate may be higher than for an adjustable rate mortgage, but fixing the rate shields the borrower from interest rate risks and rising mortgage payments—risks that have only…
What do you think of when someone mentions the USA PATRIOT Act? Fahrenheit 9/11? Long lines at the airport? Domestic spying by the NSA? Well, I have a new item to add to that list. As the winter cold season takes its toll, honest citizens trying to buy some nasal…
Voice of America reports that a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine has collided with a Japanese oil tanker in the Arabian Sea. If the submarine was not covertly following the oil tanker, I would be seriously disappointed. Maybe the submarine and the oil tanker were playing a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse.…
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