When an SUV rollover results in injury or death, attorneys are sure to become involved. Now, the legal community is using the Web to help prevent these rollovers, and the ugly beast shown here — the 6-foot long, 11-foot wide and 10-foot tall ESUVEE — is the mascot of that effort.
The attorneys general of…
PatentCafe today launched its OSS Patent Search Engine, a free tool devoted to making open source software patents searchable using natural language queries. The initial collection includes the 500 OSS patents pledged by IBM early in January. The company has not said for certain whether it will expand the database by adding…
What do blawgers look like in person? I’ve posted some pics of today’s blawgers’ lunch at Legal Tech in NY. You can find them here.…
At Legal Tech New York, I attended the Law Technology News technology awards banquet last night. I was going to report on the award recipients, but I see that LTN editor Monica Bay beat me to the punch. So head over to Monica’s blog and read all about it.…
Earlier this week, I mentioned that I had posted my article, IP Blogs: Pocket Parts for a Digital Age. Of course, there is nothing like writing about a topic to make you realize what you left out. One such IP blog worth mentioning is Law Under the Microscope, written by Cecelia…
Want to know whether a company has been sued for patent, trademark or copyright infringement? Want to track new IP case filings in a particular jurisdiction? Who’s Suing Whom is a simple interface for searching information about IP cases filed in U.S. district courts for at least the last five years. A free basic…
A Web site launched yesterday as part of a collaborative effort by law enforcement agencies on three continents is intended to serve as a global resource for helping to prevent child abuse online. Virtual Global Taskforce, created through a partnership between law enforcement agencies and industry in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United…
Charles C. Abut, a New Jersey divorce lawyer and mediator, recently launched a blog, appropriately titled New Jersey Divorce Mediation, Litigation & Arbitration. Charlie focuses on summarizing recent family law cases from New Jersey and recent developments from other states of interest to family lawyers generally.…
With a bevy of blawgers threatening to descend upon LegalTech New York Monday, Monica Bay of The Common Scold has taken the lead in organizing a blawyers’ dutch treat lunch Tuesday, Feb. 1, at noon. If you are interested in joining us, please get in touch with Monica or me.…
One of the most valuable but little-known legal resources on the Internet is the CORI K-Base, an archive of more than 25,000 contracts, 22,000 of them searchable, maintained by the Contracting and Organizations Research Initiative of the University of Missouri. Today, CORI announced that the K-Base will soon be even better. On…
Think you know everything about your computer? Find out with the free Belarc Advisor. This neat little utility builds a detailed profile of all installed hardware and software on your computer and displays it in your Web browser. It provides details down to the serial number of your main circuit board and the secondary…
In writing my post Monday about wacky patents, I came across a blog I had not seen before but wish I had: IP Funny. Devoted to “intellectual property humor,” it features items such as the breast pump attachment for a household vacuum cleaner and a method for automatically detecting pornographic images.…
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