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Plug (In) for a Buddy--contact management software

Posted on September 14, 2007
My friend Misty Khan has a good interview on Startup Houston about her company, Advena Artemis, and the launch of her software, HuntressPro. It's an Outlook Add-in for sales contact management. It "provides contact management functionality such as call lists, referral source tracking and sales activity reporting"...

Hoffman Review of Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

Posted on August 09, 2007
Latest review of my 2005 book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide, by Anne Hoffman, an international commercial and investment arbitration attorney with Python & Peter: Book review [by: Anne K. Hoffmann, Python & Peter; forthcoming in Arbitration International N° 3, 2007] International Investment, Political Risk and Dispute Resolution ? A Practitioner?s Guide by Noah Rubins and N...

Lakatos-Legal Information Alert Review of Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

Posted on August 08, 2007
Yet another recent review/comment of my 2005 book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide, by Holly A. Lakatos, Director of Public Services, Chicago-Kent College of Law Library, from the March 1, 2006 Legal Information Alert...

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Rethinking Relativity, by Tom Bethell,

Posted on May 03, 2007
Rethinking Relativity, by Tom Bethell, and related links (on Petr Beckmann's anti-Einsteinian theories)Einstein Plus Two--brochures of Petr Beckmann's work, interviews, related dissident physics material//Galilean Electrodynamics// (founded by Petr Beckmann)Physics Forum: Discussion of Lewis Little's "Theory of Elementary Waves"TEWLIP: Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) ListservDavid Harriman's comments on TEWGeorge Marklin: Objectivist PhysicsDavid Harriman's Objectivist Approach to PhysicsGeneral Lorentz Ether TheoryJournal of Objective Science

NSK Interview on Patents, by Taylor Conant

Posted on April 06, 2007
NSK Interview on Patents, by Taylor Conant

Tukulov Review of Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

Posted on March 20, 2007
Latest comments on of my book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide published in late 2005, by Kazakh attorney Bakhyt Tukulov (Legal Department, (K?Cell) "GSM Kazakhstan OJSC "Kazakhtelecom" LLP) (from an email by Tukulov to my co-author Noah Rubins):I?d like to again thank you for the book, as now, upon completion, I understand the real value it has...

Dundas Review of Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

Posted on February 18, 2007
Latest review of my book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide published in late 2005, by the well-known English practitioner/arbitrator Hew R. Dundas, in Arbitration: The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators:"Oh No ? not another book on investment arbitration!" might be one's first response but, if so, a wrong one; while "I couldn't put it down" is a time-honoured publisher's cliché, it genuinely applies to this book...

Kinsella Oxford University Press Books

Posted on January 12, 2007
Since the purchase of my publisher, Oceana Publications, by Oxford University Press in late 2005, Oxford has assumed various Oceana titles I authored or edit, and seems to have finally added them to its print and online catalogs, e.g.:International Investment, Political Risk and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide (Oceana listing)World Online Business Law (Oceana listing)Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (Oceana listing)Online Contract Formation (Oceana listing)Trademark Practice & Forms (Oceana listing)

Kinsella, Block, Tinsley on Exclusionary Rule

Posted on January 02, 2007
Just uploaded: my article In Defense of Evidence and Against the Exclusionary Rule: A Libertarian Approach, co-authored with Pat Tinsley and Walter Block, published in the Southern University Law Review.

de Gramont Blurb on Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

Posted on November 11, 2006
Latest blurb on my book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide published last year:I've been reading through your book International Investment, Political Risk and Dispute Resolution. It is a remarkably helpful, well-written, and well-researched work...

Reengineering the Patent Examination Process: Two Suggestions

Posted on November 07, 2006
Re my previous post about suggestions to eliminate substantive patent examination, I was just made aware of D.C. Toedt, "Reengineering the Patent Examination Process: Two Suggestions," 81 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 462 (1999). This is based on Toedt's suggestion in 1994 "that the PTO steal two ideas from the SEC:Suggestion 1: create a convertible "low end" patent (CLEP)Suggestion 2: conduct examinations as administrative trials...

A RADICAL VIEW ON THE FUTURE OF SUBSTANTIVE PATENT EXAMINATION

Posted on November 06, 2006
Interesting article in a Malaysian/Singaporean IP firm newsletter (it appears in the Q1/2006 issue of Henry Goh Intellectual Property Updates:A RADICAL VIEW ON THE FUTURE OF SUBSTANTIVE PATENT EXAMINATIONby Dave A. WyattIn recent years, there has been talk of a crisis in the patenting system worldwide...

Mozy.com Free Online Backup Service

Posted on November 06, 2006
Just an FYI--for anyone who does not have a good backup service for their computer documents and files: there's a great service i've been using --I have struggled with good backup solutions for a long time. I have tried several. A few months back I stumbled across Mozy...

IP and Patent Law Guide - WIki

Posted on October 10, 2006
As some of you may know, I have for some time maintained a web page with Intellectual Property, Patent, and Law Resources.I have moved the content of these resources to a wiki so that other members of the patent community can help collaborate to improve this list of resources...

"Go Left, he said": How Jeff Tucker Saved My Life

Posted on October 09, 2006
Or at least, my arm. I've noted before his nuggets of wisdom--his Rules of Thumb for Living. The latest concerns mouse usage.I've always had a bit of skepticism about people who whined about "carpal tunnel" syndrome. But over the last year my right arm has gotten worse and worse, from typing and mouse manipulation...

Happ Review of Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

Posted on October 05, 2006
Re my book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide published last year--I just received the first book review, which was done by Dr. Richard Happ (other reviews). Excerpt: a classical treatise. ... It is noteworthy and commendable that--unlike so many other contemporary writers--the authors try to give a neutral and unbiased overview over diverging awards and disputed issues...

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Posted on September 18, 2006
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Patent Rights Web Poll

Posted on July 31, 2006
On an email list I posted the following: It seems to me that many small/medium companies live in fear of a big patent lawsuit. Even if they had their own IP, I suspect many companies would gladly give up forever their right to sue for patent infringement, in exchange for some kind of immunity from patent liability--at least, if they could eliminate the threat of an injunction, so that the worst penalty they might face is some kind of mandatory royalty...

Patent and IP Law Blogs and Email Discussion Lists

Posted on January 25, 2006
The following is a collection of sources of updates on patent law/patent cases. Please email me any suggestions; will be later added to my IP Links Page. (Stephen Nipper provided me with many of these links.)Email distribution lists and Blogs (blogs can be subscribed to via aggregators such as Sharpreader; most also offer email subscription)Patterson Belknap's Federal Circuit Patent Review newsletter (by email; summarizes the previous week's patent and other decisions by the CAFC; one of my primary weekly readings)Pierce Law IP News BlogFindLaw Intellectual Property Case Summaries (email list)Willamette Law's IP case summaries (email list)I/P Updates blog: "News and Information for Intellectual Property Practitioners" (William "Bill" Heinze)IP Law Server (Intelproplaw forums)The Invent Blog--Necessity's Progeny--Nipper's Patent Law Blog (Stephen Nipper)Patently-O: Patent Law Blog (Dennis Crouch) (caselaw focus)IP Counsel Blog (Todd Lewis Mayover--)KinsellaLaw blog (Stephan Kinsella)PatNews (email list)Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement UpdatesInternet Law Update (Martin H...

Kudos on Kinsella International Investment Book

Posted on January 09, 2006
Recent endorsements of my latest book, International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide (Oxford/Oceana 2005), co-authored with Noah Rubins (available at http://www.oceanalaw.com/main_product_details.asp?ID=391):"The book is a tour de force...

Great PodCast

Posted on December 06, 2005
TWiT: This Week in Technology.

Email Reminders

Posted on September 12, 2005
Neat free website that emails you reminders for birthdays and other events: ShootMeAnEmail.com. Anyone know of any others, send 'em on.

On Lawyers as Commodities

Posted on September 08, 2005
In the September 2005 issue of Corporate Legal Times, a piece called "Bidding Wars" profiles GE's recent move to reduce the number of outside law firms it uses from 500 down to 94. The first cut was based on quality; this reduced the number of law firms to 200...

New Rouge

Posted on September 06, 2005
As I previously noted on the LewRockwell.com blog, an emerging nickname for Baton Rouge is "New Rouge," because of the huge number of New Orleans residents moving there in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. See, e.g., Capital city struggling with inflow (Sept...

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