Blawgletter has noticed an inverse relationship between exercising and our girth. The revelation has led us to explore ways for exploiting it, preferably without any discomfort or other unpleasantness. And we think we;ve discovered a way.
The method, which we call the Starbucks diet, works best in suburban areas of your larger cities — your
Software pirates? Eh, probably not.
Two patents for preventing software piracy survived appeal to the Federal Circuit today. The patentholder, z4 Technologies, sued Microsoft for infringement by its "Office" application software group and "Windows" operating system. An East Texas jury found for z4 and awarded it $115 million. After trial, U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis
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Trademark law fascinates Blawgletter — as do many other aspects of commercial law. It took a personal turn though last month, when the Patent and Trademark Office added Blawgletter to its Principal Register of trademarks.
Our thanks to David McCombs and Jeff Becker (at Haynes and Boone) for prosecuting our application. You guys
We at Blawgletter pride ourselves on having a sense of humor.
We hope Barry Bonds has one too.
A San Francisco grand jury indicted Mr. Bonds today for perjury and obstruction of justice. Something to do with steroids and muscle mass.
We wonder why prosecutors waited so long to ask a grand jury for an
Today, the Ninth Circuit struck down the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s fuel mileage requirements for "light trucks", a category that includes lots of sports utility vehicles. The court held NHTSA’s rule "arbitrary, capricious and contrary to" the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 in a bunch of ways. The agency’s CAFE ("corporate average
State attorneys general should shut up. At least they ought to quit filing lawsuits — per the WSJ today. The AGs’ sin? "Go[ing] Wild".
The Journal’s editorial page wants somebody to rein in the 50 AGs (43 of whom hold their office by virtue of popular election). The editors desire imposing "uniform rules governing [the
Sleeping puppy with Haute Diggity Dog chew toys.
The Fourth Circuit today held that luxury designer Louis Vuitton Malletier, of Paris, barked up the wrong tree by suing Haute Diggity Dog, of Las Vegas. LVM howled in protest at HDD’s including a "Chewy Vuiton" handbag with its canine teething toy. The three-judge pack agreed
Blawgletter mentioned a new antitrust investigation last week, this one involving cathode ray tubes. What do CRTs do? We don’t know the science part but we have learned that CRTs graced the earliest television sets and today go in computer monitors and televisions. Their tubiness makes them bulkier than their flat-screen cousins (LCD, plasma, DLP)
A U.S. District Judge today ordered the White House to preserve any backup tapes containing emails, according to the LA Times. The restraint comes in a case alleging that the White House failed to, er, preserve emails, violating federal law. The administration said it’d save the backups without an order.
His Honor must have thought:
Linda Greenhouse reports in The New York Times today that the Supreme Court may take a key gun rights case as early as Thursday. The lawsuit challenged the District of Columbia’s strict handgun control law. The D.C. Circuit struck down the law because, the 2-1 majority held, the second amendment confers an "individual" right to