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2009-02-09 14:33
Today I discovered that I was selected as the AIPLA student representative for the University of Houston Law Center. This is a great honor and I thoroughly look forward to organizing speaking engagements and helping to promote our IP students.
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2009-02-09 14:27
I’ve been selected as the AIPLA student representative for the University of Houston Law Center. It turns out that the AIPLA co-chairs, Christopher McKeon and Jesse Ormsby, both attend UH so my role would be to support their initiatives as well as facilitate some speaking engagements...
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2009-02-06 14:20
Today I attended a class from the Practicing Law Institute on Green Technology and Business Law. This course was offered at PLI’s headquarters on 7th Avenue in NYC. Topics ranged from venture capitalization of emerging technologies to intellectual property of recycling/reusing...
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2009-02-05 13:01
I had the opportunity to attend a seminar on Maximizing IP Value in an economic downturn this morning, courtesy of Fish & Richardson. I’ll touch on the highlights. James Babineau spoke about streamlining patent filing and prosecution through electronic filing, provisionals,...
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2009-01-31 16:02
Below is a comilation of links to electronic discovery software companies. The list is overwhelming but by no means exhaustive.
Kroll Ontrack (www.krollontrack.com)
FTI Technology (http://www.fti-technology.com/default.aspx)
Discovery Assistant...
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2009-01-31 09:08
Yesterday I installed 1300 watts of solar panels on the roof of a boat house. It went without a hitch and no panels were broken. I have photos and plan to add full details of my adventure in the "Environment" section of this site.
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2009-01-29 23:13
Google has once again quietly elevated me in search engine hierarchy. My hat goes off to my worthy namesake opponents, the environmental lawyer, the doctor, the actor, and the vice president of Williams Sonoma. Quite a competitive league, if you ask me, proving that the search engine...
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2009-01-29 23:05
Interesting article from K&L Gates about a recent decision in Arizona (Lake v. City of Phoenix, 2009 WL 73256 (Ariz. Ct. App. Jan. 13, 2009) distinguishing between a written document and the meta data therein. The court decided that the meta data did not serve the purpose of public record and...
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2009-01-22 14:28
I attended a presentation from Mary Lou Flynn-DuPart of Jackson Walker LLP today. This was a HIPLA-sponsored luncheon with the topic of electronic discovery, a heightened area of interest for me, given my background in efficiency management. A couple of good tips: parcel the work up by...
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2009-01-21 13:29
Not that I advocate the end of Christmas, but one benefit is the dramatic price reductions of Christmas lights, specifically LEDs. I managed to find the saturday supersaver price on a set of white LED lights for around $10 (although I heard the 75% off sales had them down to $3). My...
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