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Utah's Matheson Nominated as a Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit

Posted on March 03, 2010
Former Law Dean, Gubernatorial Candidate Picked for 10th Circuit - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times"Scott Matheson Jr. [Stanford, Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law]", a former law dean at the University of Utah and the runner-up in that state's 2004 race for governor, has been nominated for the U...

Are POTUS Obama's Winning Ways Being Sidetracked by the Predominantly Left-of-Center Ideology of His Staff?

Posted on March 03, 2010
Jonah Goldberg at the Los Angeles Times has a useful scribble on the Obama Presidency which hits upon two key points (winning and transformation - highlighted below).At the extreme, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to be right, and those who want to win...

You've Got to Sleep Somewhere: Not Heartbreak but Harvard Hotel?

Posted on March 02, 2010
Harvard Looks to Hotels - Developments - WSJ

Supreme Court lets stand order to remove Ten Commandments monument / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Posted on March 02, 2010
Supreme Court lets stand order to remove Ten Commandments monument / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com"The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a dispute over the placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the lawn outside a county courthouse in Oklahoma...

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You've Got to Sleep Somewhere: Not Heartbreak but Harvard Hotel?

Posted on March 02, 2010
Harvard Looks to Hotels - Developments - WSJ

Supreme Court lets stand order to remove Ten Commandments monument / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Posted on March 02, 2010
Supreme Court lets stand order to remove Ten Commandments monument / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com"The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a dispute over the placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the lawn outside a county courthouse in Oklahoma...

Should the Patent System Be Totally Revamped? Yes, Of Course. Constitutions (and their provisions) are Like Restaurants : Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Posted on March 01, 2010
Should the world patent laws be changed in their foundation? Should we stop issuing patents for methods and for software? You better believe it.In this regard, a posting by Mike Dorf is instructive. Our fundamental laws CAN be changed:At Dorf on Law: Constitutions and RestaurantsMike Dorf writes:"[I]ssues of constitutional law are never fully settled, because they are always open to the possibility of re-examination...

The Text of U.S. Patent 7669123 : A Patent That Should Never Have Been Granted

Posted on March 01, 2010
This is the text of a patent that should never have been granted, U.S. Patent 7669123:United States Patent 7,669,123 Zuckerberg , et al. February 23, 2010 Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network Abstract A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment is described...

Don't Worry About the U.S. Economy, It is in the Right Hands: The Talents of the Jews and Jewish Contributions to the World

Posted on March 01, 2010
So, you worry about the U.S. economy? I don't. The Obama Administration has seen to it that the best economic brains available - are available. Obama is a smart man. His economic team is very heavy on Jewish members.The Tel Aviv Cluster by David Brooks at the New York Times focuses on some facts about the Jews that should be repeated regularly by mainstream media to its readers, rather than concentrating on political problems in the Middle East that are to a large part an indirect result of past failings by the West itself in permitting the Holocaust to happen and in not putting down their foot against totalitarianism when they should have done so, rather than waiting for the catastrophe of WWII to happen...

Where are the Graphic Images for U.S. Patent 7669123 ? Why is the Technology of Image Viewing at the USPTO Stuck in the Stone Age ?

Posted on March 01, 2010
If you have tried to view the USPTO online graphic images for U.S. Patent 7669123 without success, you most likely do not have a graphic viewer that can display TIFF files using ITU T.6 or CCITT Group 4 (G4) compression. Who does have such software? Practically no one...

Don't Worry About the U.S. Economy, It is in the Right Hands: The Talents of the Jews and Jewish Contributions to the World

Posted on March 01, 2010
So, you worry about the U.S. economy? I don't. The Obama Administration has seen to it that the best economic brains available - are available. Obama is a smart man. His economic team is very heavy on Jewish members.The Tel Aviv Cluster by David Brooks at the New York Times focuses on some facts about the Jews that should be repeated regularly by mainstream media to its readers, rather than concentrating on political problems in the Middle East that are to a large part an indirect result of past failings by the West itself in permitting the Holocaust to happen and in not putting down their foot against totalitarianism when they should have done so, rather than waiting for the catastrophe of WWII to happen...

Where are the Graphic Images for U.S. Patent 7669123 ? Why is the Technology of Image Viewing at the USPTO Stuck in the Stone Age ?

Posted on March 01, 2010
If you have tried to view the USPTO online graphic images for U.S. Patent 7669123 without success, you most likely do not have a graphic viewer that can display TIFF files using ITU T.6 or CCITT Group 4 (G4) compression. Who does have such software? Practically no one...

Should the Patent System Be Totally Revamped? Yes, Of Course. Constitutions (and their provisions) are Like Restaurants : Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Posted on March 01, 2010
Should the world patent laws be changed in their foundation? Should we stop issuing patents for methods and for software? You better believe it.In this regard, a posting by Mike Dorf is instructive. Our fundamental laws CAN be changed:At Dorf on Law: Constitutions and RestaurantsMike Dorf writes:"[I]ssues of constitutional law are never fully settled, because they are always open to the possibility of re-examination...

Facebook Awarded a Patent on Social Network News Feeds : The USPTO is NUTS

Posted on February 28, 2010
CNN says it best:""Can I start screaming loudly about patent reform now?" tweeted Matt Galligan...."IP Watchdog writes about the cause of the screaming which is that:Facebook Gets US Patent on Social Network News Feeds | Patents & Patent LawA patent on a "dynamic news feed"?Yes, and your great-grandmother wears kryptonite green and lemon yellow polka dot Nikes with pink soles...

Law Schools Use Twitter Because of the Immediacy of Message Delivery

Posted on February 28, 2010
How Law Schools are Using Twitter | Social Media Law Student"Law schools are catching on. Like thousands of colleges and universities, law schools are now using Twitter to communicate with law students and the rest of the world.The central advantage of using Twitter to communicate is the immediacy of the message delivery...

China News: Web Inventor: China Will Relax Censorship | China Digital Times (CDT)

Posted on February 28, 2010
China News: Web Inventor: China Will Relax Censorship | China Digital Times (CDT)

China News: Web Inventor: China Will Relax Censorship | China Digital Times (CDT)

Posted on February 28, 2010
China News: Web Inventor: China Will Relax Censorship | China Digital Times (CDT)

Don't Pan My Book, Buster! NYU Prof and Editor of the European Journal of International Law Accused of Libel for his OK of Uncomplimentary Book Review

Posted on February 28, 2010
Two highly esteemed German Law Professors write book reviews about the same book, authored by a Senior Law Lecturer domiciled in Israel.ONE of the German profs writes a favorable review, but the OTHER prof pans the book. Ordinarily this is a "ho hum" situation on planet Earth...

Facebook Awarded a Patent on Social Network News Feeds : The USPTO is NUTS

Posted on February 28, 2010
CNN says it best:""Can I start screaming loudly about patent reform now?" tweeted Matt Galligan...."IP Watchdog writes about the cause of the screaming which is that:Facebook Gets US Patent on Social Network News Feeds | Patents & Patent LawA patent on a "dynamic news feed"?Yes, and your great-grandmother wears kryptonite green and lemon yellow polka dot Nikes with pink soles...

Law Schools Use Twitter Because of the Immediacy of Message Delivery

Posted on February 28, 2010
How Law Schools are Using Twitter | Social Media Law Student"Law schools are catching on. Like thousands of colleges and universities, law schools are now using Twitter to communicate with law students and the rest of the world.The central advantage of using Twitter to communicate is the immediacy of the message delivery...

China News: Web Inventor: China Will Relax Censorship | China Digital Times (CDT)

Posted on February 28, 2010
China News: Web Inventor: China Will Relax Censorship | China Digital Times (CDT)

Don't Pan My Book, Buster! NYU Prof and Editor of the European Journal of International Law Accused of Libel for his OK of Uncomplimentary Book Review

Posted on February 28, 2010
Two highly esteemed German Law Professors write book reviews about the same book, authored by a Senior Law Lecturer domiciled in Israel.ONE of the German profs writes a favorable review, but the OTHER prof pans the book. Ordinarily this is a "ho hum" situation on planet Earth...

LawBrain - A Collaborative Forum for Legal Knowledge

Posted on February 27, 2010
LawBrain:"LawBrain is a project of FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, that is the world's leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. LawBrain was launched in December 2009 as a collaborative forum to pool legal knowledge and create an interactive online space for discussion of legal topics and terms...

It's Moot, It's Smoot

Posted on February 27, 2010
Julianna Smoot announced as White House social secretary:by Anne E. Kornblut at 44 Politics and Policy, Washington PostWe originally wanted to title this post It's Moot - only, but we figured nobody would get it.

European Commission - Education & Training - External Programmes and Policies - Study In Europe

Posted on February 27, 2010
Want to study in Europe? This website can help.European Commission - Education & Training - External Programmes and Policies - Study In Europe"There are more than four thousand higher education institutions in Europe, from top-level research establishments to small, teaching-focused colleges...

Cross-country study: Economic policy challenges in the Baltics - ECFIN - European Commission

Posted on February 27, 2010
Cross-country study: Economic policy challenges in the Baltics - ECFIN - European Commission pdf [2 MB](European Economy. Occasional Papers. 58. February 2010. Brussels. Internet only. 106pp. Tab. Graph. Ann. Bibliogr. Free.)KC-AH-10-058-EN-C ISBN: 978-92-79-15024-1 ISSN: 1725-3187Summary for non-specialists pdf [70 KB]"The study reviews the process of economic transformation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from the early years of these countries' regained independence to the current downturn...

World Financial Crisis - The Worst is Over Says Blackstone's Schwarzman

Posted on February 27, 2010
World Financial Crisis - The Worst is Over Says Blackstone's Schwarzman Jason Kelly writes:"February 26, 2010 from Bloomberg -- Blackstone Group Inc., the world?s biggest private-equity company, paid Chairman Stephen Schwarzman a salary of ....Schwarzman, 63, told investors yesterday that ?the worst is over? as markets stabilize and buyout managers are able to sell some assets and make deals...

Apricots?

Posted on February 27, 2010
Apricots?

Did the Federal Circuit Misapply the Transformative Standard in Bilski in Prometheus Labs v. Mayo?

Posted on February 27, 2010
I had been meaning for quite some time to comment on what appears in this quarter to be a clearly erroneous holding on the law in the Federal Circuit's ruling in the Prometheus case (Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services), currently on petition for certiorari as follows:No...

ePractice.eu : eGovernment and eInclusion in Europe

Posted on February 26, 2010
Here is a useful site for government facts and doings in Europe: ePractice.eu."ePractice.eu is a portal created by the European Commission which offers a new service for the professional community of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth practitioners...

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