#lawfedi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lawfedi, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/117257996650784977
THURGOOD MARSHALL is the best Supreme Court Justice of my lifetime and who Bush/Reagan, in their sociopathic malice, substituted with CLARENCE THOMAS
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The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: math + OpenAI = beef; CA's governor passes AI bills; Flock deploys drones as first responders; over 100 million driver's license data has been breached; and more #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/math-problems/
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The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: math + OpenAI = beef; CA's governor passes AI bills; Flock deploys drones as first responders; over 100 million driver's license data has been breached; and more #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/math-problems/
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The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: math + OpenAI = beef; CA's governor passes AI bills; Flock deploys drones as first responders; over 100 million driver's license data has been breached; and more #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/math-problems/
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The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: math + OpenAI = beef; CA's governor passes AI bills; Flock deploys drones as first responders; over 100 million driver's license data has been breached; and more #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/math-problems/
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The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: math + OpenAI = beef; CA's governor passes AI bills; Flock deploys drones as first responders; over 100 million driver's license data has been breached; and more #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/math-problems/
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On 9/10, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in League of Women Voters/California v. Trump, litigation over Trump regime’s effort to take over vote-from-home via USPS regulations. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.305406/gov.uscourts.mad.305406.168.0.pdf
Because this litigation is confusing, quick recap on where things stand as of this thread. Federal District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction against Trump/USPS measures going into effect. 1/ #LawFedi
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On 9/10, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in League of Women Voters/California v. Trump, litigation over Trump regime’s effort to take over vote-from-home via USPS regulations. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.305406/gov.uscourts.mad.305406.168.0.pdf
Because this litigation is confusing, quick recap on where things stand as of this thread. Federal District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction against Trump/USPS measures going into effect. 1/ #LawFedi
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On 9/10, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in League of Women Voters/California v. Trump, litigation over Trump regime’s effort to take over vote-from-home via USPS regulations. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.305406/gov.uscourts.mad.305406.168.0.pdf
Because this litigation is confusing, quick recap on where things stand as of this thread. Federal District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction against Trump/USPS measures going into effect. 1/ #LawFedi
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On 9/10, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in League of Women Voters/California v. Trump, litigation over Trump regime’s effort to take over vote-from-home via USPS regulations. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.305406/gov.uscourts.mad.305406.168.0.pdf
Because this litigation is confusing, quick recap on where things stand as of this thread. Federal District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction against Trump/USPS measures going into effect. 1/ #LawFedi
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On 9/10, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in League of Women Voters/California v. Trump, litigation over Trump regime’s effort to take over vote-from-home via USPS regulations. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.305406/gov.uscourts.mad.305406.168.0.pdf
Because this litigation is confusing, quick recap on where things stand as of this thread. Federal District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction against Trump/USPS measures going into effect. 1/ #LawFedi
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Biden admin's push for #SCOTUS to avoid climate cases, the #FifthCircuit striking Nasdaq's board diversity rules, and the DOJ's stance on TikTok's potential ban.
Also, this day in legal history - Joseph H. Rainey was sworn in as the first Black member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
#thisdayinlegalhistory #lawfedi
https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-for-thurs-1212-biden-admin
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Tearing up a bit as I read this lovely article about my judge, who recently served as the first Jurist in Residence at BU. This pull quote is just perfect.
https://www.bu.edu/law/record/articles/2024/judge-robert-w-pratt/
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Please join us online next Friday, September 27 for the annual Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Supreme Court IP Review.
More details (and a link to sign up for CLE credit) are available here: https://ckcle.ce21.com/item/2024-supreme-court-ip-review-655570
If you are a law student or professor who is not seeking CLE credit, please feel free to email me for instructions on how to register for free.
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Here’s something that brightened my mood: reading today’s District Court decision which, like some others before it, completely rejects Mark Meadows efforts to have a state election interference/fraud/conspiracy prosecution of him removed to federal court. The opinion is available at https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1393979/gov.uscourts.azd.1393979.21.0_2.pdf #LawFedi #MarkMeadows 1/
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It's design week in Copyright!
Today: Mazer through Star Athletica
Wednesday: A design patent interlude, using our (free) "One Day on Designs" supplement https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3890945
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Happy first day of school! So excited to start teaching (and to be teaching Copyright) at Chicago-Kent today.
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Get excited: Our 2024-2025 (free) patent casebook supplement is here! https://patentlawcasebook.com/
Featuring, among other things, an all-new edit of #LKQvGM:
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Pre-print of our Open Access Cambridge UP volume, Rhetorical Traditions and Contemporary Law, is up. This volume explores the often-overlooked relationship between law and rhetoric. Twelve case studies examine a diverse range of legal texts and rhetorical traditions
from ancient times to the present. The volume demonstrates the value of rhetoric in understanding and addressing some of today's most pressing legal and social challenges. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4892978 #TeamRhetoric #LegalWriting #Lawfedi -
"[T]he Committee recommends that the Judicial Council impose a renewed sanction suspending Judge Newman from hearing cases at the panel or en banc level for an additional year...."
https://cafc.uscourts.gov/release-of-materials-in-judicial-investigation-3/
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Patently-O has a post today about patents for animated screen designs: https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/07/animated-gui-design-patents.html
Professor Crouch mentions the subject matter issue, which we discuss here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment/PTO-C-2020-0068-0009
These types of claims often have originality issues:
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If you are a member of the patent bar: How long did it take for you to study/prepare to take the exam? How much time time lapsed between the date you applied (or decided to apply) and the date you took the exam?
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Are you a law student or attorney who is interested in joining the design patent bar? If you haven't applied yet, why not?
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Seemed like this day would never come... https://blog.law.tamu.edu/blog/texas-am-law-confirms-newest-full-professors
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I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of #attorneys, #accountants, etc.
Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?
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Law360: "Judge Taranto said he's typically 'disappointed' with the [amicus] briefs submitted to the court, and urged the attorneys in the room to do better. 'It's very rare we get amicus briefs that say something beyond what the parties say,' he said. 'Most amicus briefs make broad, unsupported general assertions about things for which we aren't given independent basis to evaluate the truth of the assertions.'"
https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/1836807?nl_pk=2e71aa9c-c8f8-43ff-9d5a-fafec61b2085
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Law360: "U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Taranto told the room that the Federal Circuit currently has a backlog, which means oral arguments and opinions are being delayed." https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/1836807?nl_pk=2e71aa9c-c8f8-43ff-9d5a-fafec61b2085
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Judge Albright is one of the judges who said they won't hire clerks from Columbia Law School because there are protests at Columbia University:
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/federal-judges-hiring-columbia/
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Fellow #LawProfs: Do you have a question you find yourself asking over and over when you are commenting on other peoples' drafts?
Mine is: Is this a patent paper or a utility patent paper?
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We have gotten the collection Classical Rhetoric & Contemporary Law: A Critical Reader over the finish line. An accessible text for scholars and students (#LawProfs, #argumentation, #LegalWriting, #TeamRhetoric)—and curious lawyers in #LawFedi. Introduces the complex relationship between ancient western thought and contemporary law and the long history of some rhetorical concepts and practices that advocates and judges are still using today (not always for the better). https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361396/classical-rhetoric-and-contemporary-law/
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Okay, so I don't have enough time to digest this all now, but even on first skim, there is LOTS of interesting stuff in this NPRM on patent fees: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/03/2024-06250/setting-and-adjusting-patent-fees-during-fiscal-year-2025
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Saw this today:
"Similar to Olaplex, 'K18 has a patent to prove it works in hair bonding,' says King": https://www.elle.com/beauty/hair/g46077474/best-hair-bonding-treatments/
No, a patent doesn't "prove" a product "works." That's not what a patent means. The USPTO does not do efficacy testing.
See, e.g., https://patents.google.com/patent/US8609158B2/en?oq=8%2c609%2c158
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This of course made me think of @michaelmattioli's paper on the salience of patents: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4366900
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Judge sanctions attorney who filed a utility patent lawsuit without any pre-filing analysis of the merits of the infringement claims.
The attorney said "he could look at the patents and just know they were infringed."
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(That is not how this works. That is not how any of this works.)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.383043/gov.uscourts.flmd.383043.175.0.pdf
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Following Judge Durkin's grant of summary judgment against their design patent infringement claims (https://mastodon.social/@design_law/111771619167432208), the "hoverboard" #ScheduleA plaintiffs have appealed (again).
For a discussion of their first appeal, see: https://patentlyo.com/patent/2022/10/guest-post-about.html
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The Judicial Conduct and Disability Committee denies Judge Newman's petition for review of the Federal Circuit Judicial Council's order finding "that Judge Newman committed misconduct by refusing to cooperate, without good cause, with the Special Committee’s investigation by failing to undergo a medical examination." (h/t @blakereid): https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/c.c.d._no._23-01_february_7_2024.pdf
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Today is the day! We've assembled an amazing panel to discuss the most important design patent case of the year (decade?), LKQ v. GM, including yesterday's arguments. Hope you can join us!
https://events.suffolk.edu/event/design_patents_en_banc_lkq_v_gm
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Welcome to the fedi, @BrianJLove! #LawProfs #LawSchools #LawFedi #PatentFedi
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"In a flurry of filings, Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Elyse Dorsey and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP counsel Angela Landry accused Wright, a former Federal Trade Commission member, of violating Virginia's anti-SLAPP law with his defamation suit, which the women in their jointly filed counterclaim call a 'transparent attempt to punish' them for their protected speech." - Law360
https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/1723663?nl_pk=fd062d42-234e-4b6a-b9b5-4052fd7ef7ac&utm
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It's #LawStudentNote season!
If you're writing about #DesignPatents be sure to read this before you cite any of those old studies:
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For #lawfedi folks that are more of the #lawprofs or #lawstudents variety, we have created a separate channel:
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Anyway, there might be a #LawStudentNote about how the MPEP needs to change after Tam/Brunetti, if anyone is interested.
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Question for everyone out there who is interested in the law:
What types of content makes a social-media platform useful or valuable for you?
What types of law-related content would you like to see more of in the fedi?
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Just had a conversation with an attorney who is interesting in developing a design patent course they could teach as an adjunct.
I am 100% in favor of more design patent education and would be happy to talk to anyone else who's interested in trying to pitch something like this to a law school.
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Brent: The USPTO is looking to certify more law school clinics.
For more on the certification program, see: https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ip-policy/public-information-about-practitioners/law-school-clinic-1
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"The documents show how Scalia Law has offered the justices a safe space in a polarized Washington — an academic cocoon filled with friends and former clerks, where their legal views are celebrated, they are given top pay and treated to teaching trips abroad, and their personal needs are anticipated, from lunch orders to, in Justice Gorsuch’s case, house hunting."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/supreme-court-scalia-law-school.html?unlocked_article_code=veLkY6Hk6rcQUg0M7U5vZunZDV_KYeQIr3byrnBzDyCMeEm6ol2waeS2MQ5lPL8kZtwlSSU5_msfLPQFYkXRoJFoAYmidyMnS5RunAq95c4yiyDyFfhlZkH6Yx5_oVwucG3XWcwKbiBwdXcjrpP_fZBA7_LXzorVXSO9JU2pHOR_o70XxzuNfwmtJTZGHPqpnn2hR0cXZPPfyXTnSAKJZ7fmmryga-6rKDiTFl5d4OIoOhkEXXWED8P2R9dOMnSHs5csLXk14qrjiHbQvXigMpYPg9mGIVXSLDxA9jOMcSjvEybdHW7FhI0g6POYmr5i1ladbMlX4JNmg7dw07d5XkTRNUqH&giftCopy=2_Explore&smid=url-share #LawSchools #LawProfs #LawFedi
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This was, as they say, a good one (@minimumcompetence hosted by @gina).
In today’s episode we have Silicon Valley Bank (#SVB) collapsing and sending a cloud of bank-choking dust throughout the finance sector, NY seeking to reduce waste, and #DoNotPay getting sued for not doing the stuff it says it does on the tin.
Apple #Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minimum-competence/id1668925072
#Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7jRf4LUrsjAPhUZIPIaSXO
Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1668925072
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Ep8: "Jake Was Right, More DoNotPay Hilarity and AI is Unhinged" with @jacobschumer, @Jason and @andrew is arriving in your #podcast client of choice this morning.
Mini-topics win the day: #BigLaw Stinks, #Disney Shrinks (?), #DoNotPay, #AI gone Wild
E8🔗 : https://zencastr.com/z/9WHUQhSI
#Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/esquiring-minds/id1661317618
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Ep7: "Pearls Before Nothing: Reedy Creek, DoNotPay and AI Chatsplosion" with @jacobschumer, @Jason and @andrew is arriving in your #podcast client of choice this morning.
Mini-topics are the #Google #Bard faceplant and #DoNotPay embarrassments and #EVs.
Our main topic is the #Florida #ReedyCreek story -- @jacobschumer is *the* guy for this.
E7🔗 : https://zencastr.com/z/uv1cLQTi
#Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/esquiring-minds/id1661317618
