When something hits him on the head, Chicken Little gets an epiphany, and he runs to warn the king that the sky has commenced to falling. Converts rally to his cause. A great cry goes up in the land. And fear stalks the streets.
The sky hasn't fallen at all, of course. Just an acorn.
Kind of the
Patent reform seems to have gotten a boost in the 112th Congress. The Senate voted 95-5 on March 8 to pass The America Invents Act, which also goes by S.23 among the cognoscenti, which doesn't include Blawgletter.
Some key changes would have affected lawsuits in direct ways. But, just before the Senate tally
Did you hear about the radio show that found the secret formula for Coca-Cola — a decade or so ago in a story on the third page of an Atlanta newspaper?
Ira Glass, who narrates This American Life, told about the find in a February program. See (and hear!) Original Recipe. The listener
A long, long time ago, in a Golden State far, far away, a denim genius built dungarees for working stiffs. We know him now as Levi Strauss. Or, more likely, as the namesake of modern day Levi's jeans.
But Blawgletter didn't know — and perhaps you didn't either — that a key feature of
You may have wondered why patent cases have seemed so vogue in the last decade or so for hot shot trial lawyers. Blawgletter would not presume to tell you the cause. But perhaps it stems from the fact that, as Willie Sutton said, "that's where the money is."
But that now looks so two days ago.
Happy holidays!
If you find World of Warcraft's first parts tedious — and Blawgletter, in spite of never having played the massively multi-player online game, guarantees that you will — you can cheat your way to WoW skills, fame, and wealth by hiring a bot to do the work for you. Slackers everywhere rejoice!
But
Michael Smith at EDTexweblog.com has a fun post on why you should know the difference between "under seal" and "in camera".
It features a photo and dialogue from Ghostbusters. Way to go, Mike.
Blawgletter enjoys the writings of Richard Posner, he of the Seventh Circuit. Last week he pounded out another work that caught our notice. And in it he came back to a common theme — the badness, whether as plaintiff or defendant, of using a lawsuit as a tool to raise your rival's costs.
The case involved the question
Seven hopefuls for pre-trial transfer will hit the argument calendar for the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation this Thursday at the Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina.
The Panel plans to hear lawyers explain why their respective groups of cases should — or shouldn't – go to a single federal judge so that she or
California law favors class actions. So much so that Golden State courts have struck down class-action bans that show up in consumer contracts whether they apply to lawsuits, Discover Bank v. Superior Court of Los Angeles, 113 P.2d 1100 (Cal. 2005), or arbitration cases, America Online v. Superior Court, 108 Cal. Rptr. 2d 699