Legal Commentary

Changing the way we see disability
For a seasonal heart warmer, you can't do much better than the creative animated ad campaign entitled Creature Discomforts (video, sound alert) that is running on BBC. The ads are sponsored by Leonard Cheshire Disability to raise awareness for and change attitudes towards disability...

USPTO New Fee Schedule Effective October 2, 2008
The USPTO has released its fee schedule to take effect on October 2, 2008, which will supersede the current fee schedule last updated on August 1, 2008. The following list contains some (but not all) of the fee changes...

"Shocking" Report About Heart Attacks
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study showing that the survival rate for people who suffer heart attacks is actually greater if the attack is suffered in an airport or in a casino rather than in a hospital...

The Friday Fillip
Today’s fillip merely pokes a stick — well, a baton, really — at a very large and fabulous creature, one that would take all the Fridays in an era to get to know properly, if such were ever really possible...

Tilt
Peter Detkin of Intellectual Ventures, at an IP Symposium in San Jose this week: "Small inventors, defined as those entities that have less than 500 employees, are responsible for 60% of US patents, while the remaining 40% are granted to large companies...

Henderson on Solo and Small Firm Practice
Over at Legal Profession Blog (my home base), Bill Henderson gives his impressions of the solo and small firm practice meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association. Here's a sample of Bill's take on the relationship of law school education to the "touchstones" of small firm practice: Indeed, with the large tilt in law schools toward professors with large law firm experience--and virtually all as associates rather than equity partners--it is likely that we law professors undervalue the importance of commonsense and practical judgment in building a successful career...

Avandia
alleging heart attacks, increased fracture risk that may have been caused by Avandia.