Intellectual Property Law

Trials of Law School

Posted on February 03, 2008
This looks kind of interesting: The site The Trials of Law School is here.

Dreaming of a law/startup summit

Posted on February 02, 2008
I was reflecting on today's Saturday House experience while I was running errands tonight. I loved the way the conversations moved fluidly. A few intriguing ideas came up, and they circulated effortlessly. Who cares where they went? Startup Weekend was somewhat similar, if more chaotic and less focused...

Saturday House is fun and valuable

Posted on February 02, 2008
I finally made it over to Saturday House today, and I'm really sorry I didn't do it before. For those who read Coderights often, you're probably tired of hearing this, but Phoenix (where I'm from) didn't have a critical mass of passionate technologists willing to hang out, like the folks at Saturday House...

NY legislation to target social networking sites

Posted on January 30, 2008
My apologies for renewsing this, but I don't have time to look into it right at the moment. However, I do know that a lot of the people I've been meeting over the past week here in Seattle are doing social networking technology. Just because the article refers to Myspace and Facebook doesn't mean you won't get caught up in it...

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AFB: notes from ESIF

Posted on January 30, 2008
Just a cross post note: I recently posted my notes from NWEN's panel discussion on the upcoming Early Stage Investment Forum at the Angel Finance Blog, here.

Patent claims: the verbal fence

Posted on January 28, 2008
Now I'm liveblogging class... So, if a patent claim is like a verbal fence delineating your intellectual property line, wouldn't you want the line to be as far out into the pasture as possible? For an obvious example, invented a way to lock rows in a database where would you want to draw your property line? Would you want to draw the line very close by describing only the very specific parts of your recording locking technology? Or would you want to draw a line around all record locking? Of course...

"The name of the game is the claim"

Posted on January 28, 2008
In other words, what are patent claims?I'm having a little trouble adjusting back into law school study mode after Seattle Startup Weekend, so I thought I'd live blog what I'm reading about patents. My professor wrote a concise guide that explains patent law, and we're on the chapter two: patent claims...

NWEN Think Tank (Secrets of the Early-Stage Investment Forum)

Posted on January 28, 2008
I wasn't going to sign up for this NWEN workshop because I normally have class at that time, then I realized that the workshop was being held at Seattle University. Shoot, I'll just walk across the mall! You might find it interesting too:Our panel will share personal insights on how ESIF helped their business efforts and will offer suggestions that can help you be successful...

SWS: over

Posted on January 28, 2008
That's it. It's over. Andrew was right. It was a roller coaster. 

SWS: so... everyone is cleaning up

Posted on January 27, 2008
A core team got formed. Nathan Kaiser will be driving at least until a meeting with the core team in a week. The developers took over the sound system. I think we're live.

45 minutes to launch

Posted on January 27, 2008
Security promised to kick us out at 9:30, so I guess we need to be live.

SWS: less than three hours left

Posted on January 27, 2008
...and now I'm jumping over to work on articles for the new company. Confused by the past Startup Weekend structures and whether I need to follow it or not in Washington.

SWS: They came, they taped, they aired

Posted on January 27, 2008
Just watched the clip on KING5. I wonder if it will be online...

SWS: more media

Posted on January 27, 2008
Another interview, this time on KIRO. And, oh yeah, I just got my first taste of the app. It was the prettiest stack trace I've seen in two days :-)

SWS: 3:00 p.m. 7m meeting

Posted on January 27, 2008
Design: the corporate site is up. 6:00 pm deadline ok. UX: the specs are goodLegal: privacy, terms and condition, patent pending still pending (drawings and descriptions); <claps on that>Bizdev: I think they are doing some testing... not sure what they are doing...

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