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Brian Kelly Puts Together Top-Notch Coaching Staff for the Fighting Irish: Grand Valley State Connection at Notre Dame: Defensive Backs Coach Chuck Martin also Recruiting Coordinator

Posted on September 04, 2010
In all the hubbub about Brian Kelly taking over as the head coach at Notre Dame, we missed a piece of essential information that we found today in looking at the NCAA Division II college football game scores. As written at the Grand Valley State Official Athletic Site, were were surprised to see the headline Matt Mitchell Named Head Football Coach at Grand Valley State - GRAND VALLEY STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE in connection with Mitchell's nip-and-tuck opening season win 34-31 over West Texas A&M...

Patent-Eligible Subject Matter: Bilski Casts its Shadow: USPTO Issues Interim §101 Examination Guidelines

Posted on September 04, 2010
The Supreme Court decision in Bilski casts its shadow at the USPTO.Eric M. Shelton of McDermott Will & Emery informs us via Lexologythat the USPTO updates § 101 examination guidelines.See the original .pdf document here.

We Thank the Green Lady known as the Statue of Liberty: Genealogy and More: U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.com is Free to Access this Labor Day Weekend: Plus Commentary of an Immigrant

Posted on September 03, 2010
Image via Wikipedia This weekend is a fantastic opportunity to search for free the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.com, who write: "FREE ACCESS WEEKEND Search the world?s largest online collection of U.S. immigration records FREE through Sept...

YPPSYS College Football Prediction Results - Week 1, 2010 Season

Posted on September 03, 2010
Image via WikipediaYPPSYS College Football Prediction Results - Week 1, 2010 Season (to be continued in coming days as more scores come in) We made our calls for Week 1 of the college football season in Division I-A (FBS) in a previous posting, together with our analysis of each game...

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Nebraska Football: Lee Corso Puts Nebraska In 2010 National Championship Game

Posted on September 01, 2010
Did you see our YPPSYS rankings putting the Huskers at Nr. 1? We are not alone. See Bleacher Report and Nebraska Football: Lee Corso Puts Nebraska In 2010 National Title Game

Empty Judicial Seats in Federal Courts: Overzealous Partisan Politics Block Judicial Appointments Unnecessarily

Posted on September 01, 2010
In Judiciary: Legal logjam leaving judges' seats empty in federal courts at the Los Angeles Times, Carol J. Williams reports that: "Almost one in eight federal judgeships is vacant in the country and legal scholars warn that the increasingly politicized confirmation process threatens the administration of justice across the nation...

The Russian President has a Translatable Blog in Russian at Blog Dmitry Medvedev: Just Use Google's Automatic Translator or a Similar Service in Your Language

Posted on September 01, 2010
Do you have an opinion on the world? Stay informed on a global basis and do not read only what your favorite pundits write, which may or may not be useful or important. Secondary sources are not enough. It is also advisable to check a variety of original sources...

Online News Licenses: Google Renews AP News Content Licensing Agreement

Posted on September 01, 2010
As written at Reuters by Juan Carlos Perez of IDG News Service\Miami Bureau in Google renews licensing deal with AP for news content: "After months of negotiations, Google has renewed the content licensing deal that allows it to publish full-text news articles from the Associated Press on Google sites such as Google News...

NCAA Gets it Totally Wrong Again: QB Masoli Denied Waiver to Play for Ole Miss in 2010

Posted on September 01, 2010
One thing you have to admit about the NCAA. They could care less about the student player athletes, fans or teams, rather, it is all about THEIR power. Colleges need to boot the NCAA out as the organization responsible for college athletics and start a new organization dedicated by express charter priority to the young student athletes who play the game of football and/or other sports in college...

The Influence of Language on Human Thought Processes

Posted on August 31, 2010
This is a very interesting article by Guy Deutscher on human languages and their influence on thought processes. We do not all think the same, and language has something to do with it.One example is geographic language. In English, directions are usually given from the position of the person giving them, right, left, forward, turn, etc...

LawPundit at Baidu in China

Posted on August 31, 2010
We were interested to see if LawPundit turns up in the search engine Baidu [???????] in China and found that the first listing for a LawPundit search is http://www.myip.cn/lawpundit.com which looks something like this - this is only the top part of the page: ?????? ??: ??:LawPundit :: Law : Information Technology : Intellectual Property : Current Events ???:lawpundit,law pundit,law,pundit,legal,legal pundit,legalpundit,blog,blawg,weblog,blogs,blawgs,weblogs,internet diary,internet diaries,leagle beagles,internet law,internetlawweb,internet law web,legal information,internet law links,internet law news,inform sponsored links: google_protectAndRun("ads_core...

IP Law Firms Sued for Infringing Patent Lawyer's Patents on Software for the Online Management of Patent Payments: LOL

Posted on August 31, 2010
LOL (laughing out loud). We love this article at Corporate Counsel by Joe Mullin in the Patent Litigation Weekly, Law.com, an ALM Web site, titled IP Law Firms Sued ... for Infringing Patents?. Connecticut patent lawyer Wes Whitmeyer through his patent-holding company Whitserve LLC has started suing IP law firms across the country for patent infringement of his patented "patent payment management software"...

The Pharmaceutical Patent Wars: Sanofi Offers $18.5 Billion for Genzyme

Posted on August 30, 2010
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Duff Wilson report at the New York Times that Sanofi Offers $18.5 Billion for Genzyme and explain that:"Sanofi is following a trend in the major pharmaceuticals industry of using cash ? or trying to use it ? to acquire new drug opportunities to compensate for patent expirations...

The Major Black Problem in America - Children Growing up Without Fathers

Posted on August 30, 2010
At the Washington Post George F. Will reports on a tough problem in modern America in For black children, daunting divides in achievement and family life. It is definitely worth a read and some considerable thought about how that could be changed.To our way of thinking, you have to change attitudes and job opportunities first, before you can improve anything else...

2010 College Football Game Predictions for Division I-A FBS -- Week 1 (Starting Thursday, September 2, 2010)

Posted on August 29, 2010
If an academic researcher at a university takes money illegally, do we shut down the academics department at that university or punish his lab colleagues and researchers? Of course not. So why in football? The 2010 football season is on its way. The first day of NCAA Division I College Football is Thursday, September 2, and it opens a long football weekend, stretching to Monday...

YPPSYS Pre-Season College Football Rankings and Ratings 2010/2011 NCAA FBS (Division I-A)

Posted on August 28, 2010
Pre-Season College Football Rankings and Ratings 2010/2011 NCAA FBS (Division I-A) by YPPSYS Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware). We make this material available in good fun out of interest for the sport. Please do not rely on our material to place bets or wagers of any kind...

Germany: Economic Recovery Has Raised the Demand for Skilled Workers

Posted on August 27, 2010
Germany has traditionally been a powerful economic force in Europe and in the post-WWII period it imported a mass of foreign workers, primarily from Turkey, to help with the work load. Image via Wikipedia That necessity is probably again arising as German demographics -- primarily the product of low German birth-rates -- combined with economic recovery, find German employers looking for skilled workers...

PatentlyUseful(tm): A Mozilla Firefox Add-On That Saves Time in Researching Patents at the USPTO

Posted on August 27, 2010
PatentlyUseful(tm) For the USPTO is a Mozilla Firefox add-on that saves time in researching patents at the USPTO. It has been downloaded over 3000 times and its reviewers all give it five stars. Check it out.

Aligning Intellectual Property with Corporate Strategy and Cultivating Corporate Patent Practices: SlideShare Presentation by Naim Khan

Posted on August 27, 2010
The linked SlideShare presentation by Naim Kahn, IP Manager, Primal Fusion Inc., covers Aligning Intellectual Property with Corporate Strategy and Cultivating Corporate Patent Practices. Take a look.

Representatives in the U.S. Congress Want to Change the U.S. Constitution for Political Reasons: Would the Founders Agree?

Posted on August 27, 2010
Ben Evans, AP writer, has a nice article which is reproduced inter alia at Republicans Hot, Cold On Constitution (huffingtonpost.com) GOP's uneven record on the Constitution (capitolhillblue.com)  Something to Talk About at the Northwest Indiana Post Tribune discussing some of the various "political" Constitutional amendments to the U...

5 Myths About Philadelphia?s ?Blogging Tax? | Epicenter | Wired.com

Posted on August 27, 2010
5 Myths About Philadelphia?s ?Blogging Tax? | Epicenter | Wired.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Alexander Hotz with a Graphic by Lisa Waananen at Mashable on 6 Years of Controversy re Facebook Privacy

Posted on August 27, 2010
Alexander Hotz does the commentary and there is a nice timeline graphic for Mashable by Lisa Waananen at Facebook Privacy: 6 Years of Controversy [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Ultimate Patent Troll: George Selden, the Patent Attorney Who Claimed to Have Invented the Automobile

Posted on August 27, 2010
The fix in which modern technology finds itself today as the result of our ill-conceived and smothering patent laws is unfortunately nothing new, but was a battle fought more than a century ago over patent rights to the invention of the automobile...

Speaking of Patents: 125 Years Ago August 29: Gottlieb Daimler "Riding Car" Patent is Filed and the Dawn of the Automobile Era Begins

Posted on August 27, 2010
(Note, I thought I had scheduled this to be published on August 29, but it somehow sneaked out a few days early.) In any case, Daimler filed for his patent on the Reitwagen (literally, "riding wagon" but normally translated as "riding car" -- it is actually more like a motorcycle) on August 29, 1885, as you can read at the Daimler website -- a patent issued as DRP Nr...

Another Patent Myth Crumbles: The Idea that Patents are for the Little Guys: In Fact, Patents Granted to Small Entities are GREATLY in Decline

Posted on August 26, 2010
To get patent reform dialogue to a sane level it is absolutely imperative to get rid of a lot of the patent myths that otherwise pervade the discussion. One of these myths is the popular Cinderella idea that patents are something for the "little man"...

Plotkin Writes Why He Thinks Bilski Re-Affirms the Patent-Eligibility of Software

Posted on August 26, 2010
See Plotkin's article at IPWathcdog: Why Bilski Re-Affirms the Patent-Eligibility of Software Unfortunately, Plotkin is surely right.

As College Football Season Approaches, University Patents Section on FreePatentsOnline Allows Alma Mater Deja Vu

Posted on August 26, 2010
With football season approaching, The Intellogist Blog - "Patent search questions. Expert answers."in University Patents on FreePatentsOnline reports that we can check out what patents our alma mater colleges are churning out, in our particular case, the University of Nebraska Huskers and the Stanford University Cardinal...

How Destructive is the Force of Intellectual Property Law? A Libertarian Answer

Posted on August 26, 2010
Josh Fulton at SmallGovTimes.com "your small government and libertarian news source" in Compulsory licensing in intellectual property writes: "[I]ntellectual property law is easily one of the most destructive forces in our economy. Nearly one-fourth of scientists responding to a survey by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest general scientific body in the world, reported that patents were hampering their research...

Drug Laws and Drug Abuse: Healthcare vs. Punishment: What Makes More Sense? The Policy Debate on Drug Decriminalization: Portugal as a Model for the USA?

Posted on August 26, 2010
Solutions to the drug problem? Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Jail and prison punishments for drug possession and abuse are not working and have not worked for decades, and yet there are no end to those advocating such sanctions...

CloudMagic searches your Gmail faster than Google can

Posted on August 26, 2010
fast fellaCloudMagic searches your Gmail faster than Google canHat tip to CaryGEE. via Google Toolbar.

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