The Invent Blog
Tech tips, intellectual property law and law practice information.
Author: Stephen M. Nipper is patent lawyer. He is a partner at Dykas, Shaver & Nipper in Boise, Idaho. He also contributes to Legislating IP.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Patent Law • Science & Technology Law
Recent Posts from The Invent Blog
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Slick sliding animation for helping you determine if a copyrighted work is in the public domain
Via the American Library Association’s Copyright Advisory Network Digital Copyright Slider. See also their Fair Use Checklist (pdf). [Originally posted on The Invent Blog. Copyright © Nipper, LLC 2004-2007. All Rights Reserved.]
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Best new gadget….Netflix Player by Roku
Netflix (last year?) added a service called “Watch Instantly” where they allowed subscribers to watch streamed selections on their computers for free (as part of their subscription). The titles in the “Watch Instantly” library (10,000+…
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Invention Promotion Company settles with FTC for $10.7 million
Apparently, the FTC has settled its case with Davison & Associates for $10.7 million in cash, real estate and investment assets, less than half of the $26 million dollar judgment awarded in 2006. See: Pittsburgh…
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Online Time Clock for Law Firm Employees
With mentions in TechCrunch, Technorati, Inc.com, and an iPhone App…..one local Idaho software company (TSheets) is making big waves! See also this Idaho Business Review post. As a user of their product (my office uses…
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Quicktime, TIF and USPTO Images
Quick update to an earlier “tech tip”* post of mine (”Tech Tip: Die QuickTime, Die“) regarding how QuickTime blocks the use of AlternaTiff (my preferred Tiff viewer for USPTO patent images). Earlier today, I decided…
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Thomas Edison used “click wrap”?
Matt Buchanan’s new blog on “Friday fun - Edison’s mark” (referring to terms and conditions Edison used on a marking plate for his Amberola Phonograph). [Originally posted on The Invent Blog. Copyright © Nipper, LLC…
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Did you know that most books published between 1923 and 1963 are in the public domain?
At least that is what Google, in reviewing Copyright renewals is finding. See Google Book Search Blog on US copyright renewal records available for download. Google’s latest announcement (the topic of that post) was scraping…
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Where lawyers don’t eat
Above the Law has a post up on “Where the Lawyers Eat Out” which contains a list of “recommendations for restaurants in various Biglaw cities.” Something tells me that ‘if’ Boise was a “Biglaw city”…
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“Doah” of the week
Techdirt: Expensive Patent Attorneys Know How To Cut & Paste, But Not Search & Replace [Originally posted on The Invent Blog. Copyright © Nipper, LLC 2004-2007. All Rights Reserved.]
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Remember when the practice of patent law was “fun”?
It isn’t anymore…hasn’t been for a few years. My fellow practitioners know exactly what I mean. Then, I read this: …The SPE indicated that it was the policy in his Art Group not to issue…