Law Students

Bar Prep - Day 18
Today I picked up the phone and called Bar Prep.  After whining for 15 minutes, I felt a little less stressed and even managed to condense my notes in half the time of which it usually takes me...

Bar Prep - Day 3
Today marks the 27 hours I have spent in bar prep courses for the past three days.  I am tired physically, but my brain is doing okay.  I have not had time to condense my notes yet since there is a very short break between classes...

Bar Prep - Day 26
Every day we get a little pep talk from bar prep.  We are told that things will make sense and that we just follow the schedule and do what we can and eventually our brain will absorb the information...

Reinventing Patent Law
Death, taxes, and uncertain patent laws. The February 2008 issue of the ABA Journal has a very good article about patent law entitled "Reinventing Patent Law." In the article, the author, Steve Seidenberg, notes that all three branches of the US government are changing (or have changed) patent laws in ways that negatively impact the [...

Patent Profile: StemCells Announces Issuance of Human Neural Stem Cell Patent
By Donald Zuhn -- Yesterday, StemCells, Inc. announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,361,505, which is directed to multipotent neural stem cell compositions...

Bar Prep - Day 4
It is only the 4th day but 2/3 of the people have bailed class.  I have completed the assignments but have not even come close to condensing the lecture notes from the past few days...

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment

Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million

The Princeton Review
$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.