Patent Law

iBarista Winners Announced

By Stephen Albainy-Jenei

Well, we wrapped up the Patent Baristas iBarista contest after two lucky winners were picked to receive iBarista iPods.

Winner #1.

Elliot Mendelson, a patent attorney at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun in Chicago, was randomly selected as the winner of an Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB for submitting a new comment on the PatentBaristas.com website in the month of July.  Basically, my administrative assistant randomly pulled a name from all the eligible entries.  Elliot wrote back saying “Thank you (and your secretary) so much! News like that is indeed a pleasant way to wrap up [the] week.”

Winner #2.

Chris Truelove, an Editor at Med Ad News and R&D Directions, was randomly selected as the winner of another Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB for posting a new link to the PatentBaristas.com website in the month of July.  The link, on Pharma Blog Review, mentioned our interview with USPTO Director John LeGuyader about alternate claiming strategies and restrictions. Chris was happy to win noting “This is very exciting, as I have never won anything like this before, ever.”

Congratulations to our winners!  We hope they enjoy their new iPods (despite the evil DRM restrictions).  Also, thanks to everyone who participated, it was fun.

Full post as published by Patent Baristas on August 02, 2008 (boomark / email).