Tukulov Review of Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

March 20, 2007

Latest comments on of my book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide published in late 2005, by Kazakh attorney Bakhyt Tukulov (Legal Department, (K’Cell) “GSM Kazakhstan OJSC “Kazakhtelecom” LLP) (from an email by Tukulov to my co-author Noah Rubins):
I’d like to again thank you for the book, as now, upon [...]

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Dundas Review of Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

February 17, 2007

Latest review of my book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide published in late 2005, by the well-known Scottish practitioner/arbitrator Hew R. Dundas, in Arbitration: The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators:
“Oh No – not another book on investment [...]

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Kinsella Oxford University Press Books

January 12, 2007

Since the purchase of my publisher, Oceana Publications, by Oxford University Press in late 2005, Oxford has assumed various Oceana titles I authored or edit, and seems to have finally added them to its print and online catalogs, e.g.:

International Investment, Political Risk and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oceana listing)
World Online Business Law (Oceana listing)
Digest [...]

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Kinsella, Block, Tinsley on Exclusionary Rule

January 2, 2007

Just uploaded: my article In Defense of Evidence and Against the Exclusionary Rule: A Libertarian Approach, co-authored with Pat Tinsley and Walter Block, published in the Southern University Law Review.

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de Gramont Blurb on Rubins-Kinsella International Law Book

November 11, 2006

Latest blurb on my book International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide published last year:

I’ve been reading through your book International Investment, Political Risk and Dispute Resolution. It is a remarkably helpful, well-written, and well-researched work. It is quite scholarly and at the same time a thoroughly practical and useful [...]

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Reengineering the Patent Examination Process: Two Suggestions

November 7, 2006

Re my previous post about suggestions to eliminate substantive patent examination, I was just made aware of D.C. Toedt, “Reengineering the Patent Examination Process: Two Suggestions,” 81 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc’y 462 (1999). This is based on Toedt’s suggestion in 1994 “that the PTO steal two ideas from the SEC:

Suggestion 1: create a [...]

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A RADICAL VIEW ON THE FUTURE OF SUBSTANTIVE PATENT EXAMINATION

November 6, 2006

Interesting article in a Malaysian/Singaporean IP firm newsletter (it appears in the Q1/2006 issue of Henry Goh Intellectual Property Updates:
A RADICAL VIEW ON THE FUTURE OF SUBSTANTIVE PATENT EXAMINATIONby Dave A. Wyatt
In recent years, there has been talk of a crisis in the patenting system worldwide. This reflects a concern over growth in the numbers [...]

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Mozy.com Free Online Backup Service

November 6, 2006

Just an FYI–for anyone who does not have a good backup service for their computer documents and files: there’s a great service i’ve been using –I have struggled with good backup solutions for a long time. I have tried several. A few months back I stumbled across Mozy.com which I tried and love. It’s an [...]

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IP and Patent Law Guide – WIki

October 10, 2006

As some of you may know, I have for some time maintained a web page with Intellectual Property, Patent, and Law Resources.
I have moved the content of these resources to a wiki so that other members of the patent community can help collaborate to improve this list of resources. Members may [...]

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“Go Left, he said”: How Jeff Tucker Saved My Life

October 9, 2006

Or at least, my arm. I’ve noted before his nuggets of wisdom–his Rules of Thumb for Living. The lates
t concerns mouse usage.
I’ve always had a bit of skepticism about people who whined about “carpal tunnel” syndrome. But over the last year my right arm has gotten worse and
worse, from typing and mouse manipulation. Jeff [...]

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