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A Worthwhile Podcast About Intellectual Property

By Evan Schaeffer

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Doug Lichtman is a tenured law professor at UCLA who started a podcast six months ago called Intellectual Property Colloquium. Each month, Lichtman posts an hour-long conversation about a patent, copyright, or technology topic. The line-up of guests is fantastic. Here, for example, is a summary of the January show--

The Honorable Paul Michel currently serves as Chief Circuit Judge for the Federal District and, in that role, has overseen a period of enormous growth and change in the patent system. In this audio presentation, Chief Judge Michel joins moderator Doug Lichtman to talk patent reform, thinking not only about what has been accomplished in recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions, but also about what work is left ahead for Congress, the Supreme Court, the Patent Office, and the Federal Circuit itself.

Some of the other topics since the show began: "Privacy in a Networked World," "Everyone Hates DRM," and "In Re Bilski."

There's also CLE credit. As Lichtman wrote in an email, "One charm of the site is that we offer completely free CLE credit to lawyers who listen. All of our previous shows qualify in New York, California, Texas, Illinois, and Washington, and we plan to add more states later this year."

Each show also contains suggested reading material. It's a pretty slick operation--and all for free.

Full post as published by The Illinois Trial Practice Blog on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).