Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
As another follow-up to last week's posts about the Toronto International Film Festival hiding behind bogus assertions of concern about copyright infringement as an excuse not to screen "The Road…
Fellow patent practitioner Lee Golden did what I did not do, namely read the Canadian Copyright statute. He notes that the terrorists with the GoPro cameras likely don't even have…
I don’t think that hitherto I’ve seen IP used as an excuse for Jew-hatred, but we’re living in interesting times. The Jerusalem Post and others report today that the Toronto…
If you grew up in the Detroit area from the 1970’s until 2009, you knew the name Bill Davidson: he was the owner of the Detroit Pistons, who won back-to-back…
Anyone my age will recall Marvin the Martian, the Loony Toons character who wanted to blow the earth into nothingness using his “Eludium PU-36 explosive space modulator”, but whose nefarious…
Here in Israel we’re amazed by the exploding pagers and exploding radios of the last two days, in terms of the technological and logistical abilities, not to mention the chutzpa,…
I wrote last year noting that there were apparently no patent applications filed, ever, listing Shifa “Hospital” in Gaza as the applicant. Today on a whim I looked for patent…
Last week I wrote about the Board of Directors of the Columbia Law Review taking down the CLR's website because of hanky-panky by the student editors surrounding the acceptance of…
I have never been a fan of law reviews or law review articles. Law reviews are the only form of ostensibly academic journalism of which I'm aware in which the…
I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.