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KinsellaLaw Web Log
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Thursday, January 30, 2003
Google-opoly:
Google-Opoly: The Game No One but Google Can Play: Fascinating article in Slate about "The strange Google lawsuit over its page-ranking monopoly." 
Monday, January 27, 2003
Ustjay Orfay Unfay:
Google's Language Tools page provides an option to customize the language used for your Google Interface. In addition to, of course, English, and standard languages such as Dutch, German, etc., older languages such as Latin ("Favente Fortuna!"), and utopian/invented languages such as Esperanto and Klingon, you can select other, more whimsical ones, like Pig Latin ("I'may Eelingfay Uckylay!"), Elmer Fudd ("I'm Feewing Wucky").
N.b.: not for the humor-challenged (your know who you are).
Friday, January 24, 2003
Hollywood finally killed the goose that layed the golden egg:
Or so says a patent lawyer friend of mine, referring to Tech firms fight copy-protection bill. This story reports that "A coalition of companies including Apple Computer, Microsoft, Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Intel said Thursday that they had joined together to oppose legislation backed by the movie studios that would allow the U.S. government to set antipiracy standards for PCs and consumer-electronics devices." Good for them!
Copyright and Free Culture:
Lawrence Lessig's Keynote address to the Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2002 is a truly fascinating and insightful look at the historical evolution of copyright law and how it is increasingly threatening cultural freedom.
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Patent Licensing...:
Now stifle those yawns! My latest IP-related publication (not counting regular updates to Oceana's Trademark Practice and Forms or World Online Business Law, for which I'm editor) is Impact of Patent Licensing on Patent Litigation and Patent Office Proceedings, co-authored with Richard T. Redano, published in the January 2003 issue of The Licensing Journal.
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
PATSCAN's Bizarre Patent Calendar 2003:
Can be dowloaded for free from their website.
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