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Broken Bone? Print a Hash Cast(studiofathom.com)
1 points by teachingaway 12y ago|0 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
You have died of dissing Terry :) http://boourns.dynu.net/pics/43dd53d4beb9b22340c88833856889c...
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by teachingaway 12y ago
explanation of stock options generally - http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-optio...
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by teachingaway 12y ago
whoa... just spent an hour reading some of Grellas' HN essays. Insightful stuff. DC Toedt is another solid lawyer worth reading on HN. Out of Texas, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dctoedt
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Picking a Startup Lawyer in NYC - http://mattmireles.com/picking-a-startup-lawyer-in-nyc/
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by teachingaway 12y ago
What are the other good posts I should add to the collection? Who else writes about hiring startup lawyers?
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Hiring a Startup Lawyer(adlervermillion.com)
70 points by teachingaway 12y ago|27 comments
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What’s the Best Way to Fix the Patent System’s Problems?(cato-unbound.org)
5 points by teachingaway 12y ago|1 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Our law firm wrote to the Chief Judge of the 2nd Circuit (in NYC) last month asking for these PACER docs to be restored. http://adlervermillion.com/removal-of-public-pacer-records/ Leahy obviously has more pull than ou
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Dashboard in 1950's GMC trucks is solid. Just two dials. One for speed, the other displays 4 types of engine data. http://i.imgur.com/g9RUbiF.jpg
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by teachingaway 12y ago
I had to hire a Korean IP law firm last week. Options included: - Kim & Chang; - Bae, Kim, & Lee; - Lee & Ko; - Shin & Kim - Jeong, Kim & Lee, etc etc.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
>> "Most of these are district court cases." 3 out of 11 are Federal Circuit cases, and one of the District Court cases was actually decided by Federal Circuit Judge Bryson (Loyalty v. American). I'd count that as 4 out
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Yes. There's lots of caselaw that says verbal contracts are legally binding. But verbal contracts are a legal clusterf#¢&. Always always get your contracts signed in writing and you will save tons of $$$$ on lawyer fees.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
There's a balance between "exploding" offers and hang-around-forever offers. You don't want someone to come back 6 months later and say they're finally ready to accept your offer. Its not difficult to balance these
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by teachingaway 12y ago
>> ... really it's two lines of actual logic different... Still awesome. We got a guy in the White House who has written two lines of code!!
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Silicon Valley’s Most-Hated Patent Licensing Firm Is Reinvented(bloomberg.com)
7 points by teachingaway 12y ago|0 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Mostly impossible. There is a fairly useful book - the USPTO's "Manual of Patent Examining Procedure" (or MPEP). Official - http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/ My copy - http:&#x2
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Agree. Patent language is way too confusing. Hopefully the Supreme Court's ruling in Nautilus v. Biosig will force lawyers to clarify their patent language. From Justice Ginsburg: > we hold that a patent is invalid for indefinitenes
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by teachingaway 12y ago
wow. that is better than my version.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Its the number one mistake people make... but maybe I should tone down the repetition a little?
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How to Read a Patent(adlervermillion.com)
202 points by teachingaway 12y ago|29 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
The follow-up article is a bit better. But I don't like the way the original title is presented as fact: "Professor hacks University Health Conway in demonstration for class" While the follow-up is titled as " Professor
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New Rules for Copyrighting Website Design and Content(copyrightcodex.com)
3 points by teachingaway 12y ago|0 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
I see 205 of "Launcher, Grenade" followed by only 1 of "Laundry, Cleaner"
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by teachingaway 12y ago
If the dataset comes from the Gov't (e.g., Freedom of Info Act), one might argue that its public domain data. If its public domain, then slapping a license on it doesn't change anything. If its not public domain, and you want peop
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Takeaway: make sure your users click-to-agree on your terms of use. Referencing them in the fine print somewhere isn't safe. Professor Goldman often makes this comment: > "there are two types of online terms: mandatory click-th
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Carolla should donate that $500k to the EFF or similar anti-patent troll organization. He raised that money to fight the case. If he settled, he should pass the $$$ forward to the next defendant that wants to pick up the torch.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
>> c) have some real sense of what being a lawyer actually means (e.g. they spent at least a couple years working at a firm in some non-lawyer capacity... This is the most important factor, in my opinion. Work as a paralegal (or simil
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Its about context. If this were claim construction brief , just looking at one random figure would be totally wrong. But a proper and careful analysis of the claims would be a snoozefest. I wanted to tell a story celebrating the hard work
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Since we won on jurisdiction, the patent itself wasn't a big part of the story.

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