December 2008
46 posts
The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart →
Dec 30th
Federal Circuit Grants Mandamus in Venue Case →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah hmmm. The e-mails are flying today over the Federal Circuit’s decision today to grant a petition for mandamus transferring a Marshall patent case between a…
Dec 30th
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream →
  I think I might finally be able to kick my Dynamo Donuts habit, but I’m not so sure that it’ll lead to me loosing any weight. Late last night I walked by the new Humphry Slocombe…
Dec 30th
The unduly narrow path to professorhood →
[cross-posted from Law School Innovation] In a previous post over at LSI, I reflected a bit on Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and the formation of law professors. Having finished the book,…
Dec 30th
Federal Circuit Transfers Case Out of Texas... →
In re TS Tech USA Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2008) (precedential order) Responding to an interlocutory petition for a writ of mandamus, the Federal Circuit has ordered a patent case transferred from…
Dec 30th
Happy Chanukah! →
     
Dec 29th
Federal Circuit Transfers Case Out of Texas... →
In re TS Tech USA Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2008) (precedential order) Responding to an interlocutory petition for a writ of mandamus, the Federal Circuit has ordered a patent case transferred from…
Dec 29th
"Now What I Want Is, Facts." On The... →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah txed on top. again. Hard Times by Charles Dickens.  Which brings us to the cold, hard facts of October 2008 new filings of patent cases (aka NOS 830 in…
Dec 22nd
Does the Federal Circuit Need a Fresh Viewpoint? →
The Federal Circuit was originally created to bring more uniformity to patent law and limit forum shopping.  With very few exceptions, the Federal Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction of appeals…
Dec 22nd
Area Woman Becomes Republican Vice Presidential... →
WASILLA, AK—In a dramatic capper to a year that already saw her son’s hockey team go to district finals, a successful remodeling of the den,…
Dec 22nd
Sight-Ems →
Inspired by WHAT YOU’RE SEEING Flickr member Bats1234… EC4/JHP
Dec 22nd
Anti-Gift List: 15 Everyone Gets and No One Needs... →
The holidays draw near. That means gift-giving time is upon us. The holiday season is stressful and in many ways very wasteful. Mass-produced novelty items
Dec 17th
Drunken Santa Convention →
What the ho, ho, ho?? 1000’s of drunken Santa’s stumbled through the streets yesterday, spreading cheer and merriment to any and all they encountered.  This year, the Red Menace split into…
Dec 15th
Willie Brown on political ethics →
Recently Willie Brown offered his take on the Blagojevich scandal. He writes: Take Caroline Kennedy, who looks like she’s in line to get Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat in New York. If she…
Dec 15th
Musical Chairs: Larry Lessig to Harvard Law School →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah Lessig is leaving Stanford??!! Dean Elena Kagan strikes again. From an HLS press release: Renowned legal scholar Lawrence Lessig has been appointed to the…
Dec 15th
Rod Blagojevich: Bills, Bills, Bills →
Some have wondered: Where was star litigator Dan Webb at Governor Rod Blagojevich’s bond hearing? High-powered Winston & Strawn litigators Dan Webb and Bradley Lerman were not at Illinois…
Dec 12th
Broadway Tunnel, S.F. →
click photo for full-size image photo by Donald Kinney I have no idea of how many miles I walked in San Francisco on Wednesday, but starting at the Marina Green I walked over to Union…
Dec 12th
Please come: REMIX: Reading →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah haha. poor mr. lessig. The toughest gig when releasing a book is bookstore events. At least when you’re no one, no one is ever there. So if ANYONE here is near the…
Dec 12th
How To Make The World’s Best Latkes →
  Every family had their own special holiday traditions.  Mine, for example, involves my mothers ample collection of menorahs that makes the Los Angles Fire Department VERY nervous on…
Dec 11th
Independent book publishing in the San Francisco... →
The Bay Area has a long history of independent book publishing. Over at Right Reading I’ve listed ten Bay Area presses that would make good destinations for holiday shopping. What other…
Dec 10th
Caramelized Onion Dip →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah yummm. This has been at the top of my list for nearly a year, a barely legible scratch of pencil on a half-sheet of printer paper: make onion dip. In my mind the…
Dec 10th
Sight-Ems →
MUNI 14-Limited
Dec 10th
Law.com - Surprises Found in Data on IP Suits →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah ‘The database shows that the Eastern District of Texas is very plaintiff-friendly. More surprisingly, it also shows that plaintiffs have edged out defendants over the…
Dec 10th
Sight-Ems →
Laguna & Haight
Dec 9th
Blagojevich arrested on federal charges - Chicago... →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah Prosecutors also alleged Blagojevich expressed feeling “stuck” as a sitting governor and spent a large amount of time weighing whether he should appoint himself to the…
Dec 9th
Illinois governor charged with public corruption -... →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah ahhhh. Good, clean Illinois politics ;)
Dec 9th
SCOTUS Doesn't Really Care About Obama's... →
Today, the Supreme Court declined to take up the case about whether Barack Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as President of the United States. With no public discussion or…
Dec 8th
Your Seat at the Table →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah Obama-Biden Transition Project Co-chair John D. Podesta announced that all policy documents from official meetings with outside organizations will be publicly available…
Dec 8th
Feature: "If You Give the Federal Government $700... →
Dec 8th
Even in Michigan, Not Everyone Wants a Lifeline →
Many people in Michigan said in interviews that they could no longer see why the Big Three should be singled out for rescue.
Dec 5th
University of Chicago Black Law Students... →
Apparently some members of the Black Law Students Association at the University of Chicago Law School need a refresher in Constitutional Law. Or maybe some of them could just re-watch Eyes…
Dec 5th
Swearing in of new clerks / patent case status... →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah im doing this on the 18th =) Tuesday’s patent case status conferences in Marshall were unexpectedly preceded by a point of personal privilege, as I…
Dec 5th
Apple, Walmart to do $99 4GB iPhone? →
Look, we know you’ve been holding out for the iPhone to hit Walmart before you pick it up, sandwiched between the fishing gear and row upon row of exercise videos — and we don’t blame…
Dec 4th
Mission District pigeons →
click photo for full-size image photo by Donald Kinney click photo for full-size image photo by Donald Kinney While on my Sunday walk around San Francisco’s Mission District, I…
Dec 4th
Photo Wednesday: Voting on marriage →
This photo of a protestor at an anti-Prop 8 rally comes from Raquella’s photostream. . Conceivably Related Posts Photo Wednesday: Alcatraz guard tower This photo of a guard tower…
Dec 4th
Oh hai.. →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah i come home to this at least once a week. Oh hai.. ur out of napkins haz da towelz bin fightin again? picture: plainhat. lol caption:  » Recaption This…
Dec 4th
Manifesto Manifesto: An Incomplete Manifesto for... →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah ‘Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.’ upgrade it? daft punk? I’ve been thinking about manifestos as visions of the future and I asked the…
Dec 4th
The Ultimate PO Box, Post Office Box and Mail... →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah it was only a matter of time ;) Online PO Box & Mail Forwarding - Secure 24/7 web access to postal mail and parcels. Read, forward, recycle, shred from anywhere - PO…
Dec 4th
Venice under water - The Big Picture - Boston.com →
Shared by David These pictures are insane!
Dec 4th
Coffee - Niemann Opinion Art Blog – Abstract City... →
Shared by Jessica L. Hannah thanks to dan. a good one. Christoph Niemann’s illustrated reflections of life in New York City.
Dec 3rd
Los Angeles Street Art →
Flickr set here.
Dec 3rd
Mission Street Art 1977: Star Wars Droids Promote... →
Best thing my “mission district” Google Alert has yielded in a while: This cute bit of time warp courtesy of Bonnie Burton at The Official Star Wars Blog. Way back in 1977, muralist …
Dec 3rd
Milk Cracks Top Ten →
Hey, Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk biopic Milk, which is pulling in phenomenal reviews and audience reaction, somehow managed to crack the top ten this with only a fistful of theaters…
Dec 2nd
Free Blinky Bike Lights Tonight at Valencia and... →
Great, a week after I spend $70 on lights so that my friends can do Critical Mass with me in Sacramento (where front and rear lights are required by law if riding after dark), SFBC and …
Dec 2nd
Standard Setting and Waiver of Patent Rights →
Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp (Fed. Cir., Dec. 1, 2008) “This patent infringement case involves the consequence of silence in the face of a duty to disclose patents in a standards-setting…
Dec 2nd
Stuff Environmentalists Like →
On Newsstands Now. Read the first installment at PlentyMag.com. Posted in Uncategorized      
Dec 2nd