http://www.idealawyerblog.com/ en-us 2008-05-09T06:30:08-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/05/silicon_valley_innovation_on_i_1.html Patenting and Open Source Platform Silicon Valley nonprofit Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF) provides an early glimpse of next-generation institutional innovation (BusinessWeek.com, 11/15/07) as it emerges on the edge of medical research and drug discovery. As its name suggests, MRF has... deborah 2008-05-09T06:30:08-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/05/enola_bean.html On a trip to Mexico, Larry Proctor bags a bean, then patents it, then asserts Mexican Farmers cannot import this bean - indiginous to Mexico- to the US. After more than 10 years, and unrecompensed losses to farmers, the USPTO... Business deborah 2008-05-06T07:38:40-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/05/getting_paid_music_publishing.html Want to Get Paid? Who doesn't! Simple Steps to Setting Up A Publishing Company (so you can get paid!!!) First: Affiliate with ASCAP or BMI Application forms give you 3 choices of name, and it is vital to get a... Music deborah 2008-05-03T06:29:39-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/05/college_as_incubator_blending.html In his 1986 comedy flick, Back To School, Rodney Dangerfield plays a tough, up-from-the streets entrepreneur who winds up in the classroom of a snooty, hopelessly academic business professor. The professor blathers on about the theoretical costs of a business... Business bob 2008-05-01T15:28:14-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/05/new_york_federal_judge_sets_in.html ASCAP is thrilled estimating as much as $100 million in payments covering 7 years period ending in 2009; Digital Media Assoc., repping internet services, declines comment. U.S. District Judge William Conner's 153-page decision didn't specify the total amount owed to... FILM & Media deborah 2008-05-01T07:20:48-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/05/copyright_for_code_thugs_1.html Malware is an ugly reality in cyberspace. Hackers ceaselessly barrage us with incendiary code calculated to thwart break or pervert our software. A new threat: violate our copyright, and we'rr report you to..to..to US!!! http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9111031... deborah 2008-05-01T06:53:10-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/04/walmart_video_scandal.html and who at Wal Mart failed to get the IP rights to the video UP FRONT??? Wake UP WalMart.... God is in the details....(or see the related story on WalMart selling bible action figures....) see www.bbc.co.uk Video embarrassment for Wal-Mart... Patent, Trademark, Copyright deborah 2008-04-11T11:15:50-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/04/myspace_youtube_web_shield_shr.html Shrinking Immunity for Web hosts Jane Doe v Friendfinder Courts chip away at Web sites' decade-old legal shield Posted by Anne Broache for C/Net News.com For more than a decade, Web site operators have enjoyed a broad legal shield against... deborah 2008-04-08T14:10:16-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/04/federal_judge_rules_posting_is_1.html http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/04/boston-judge-making.html... deborah 2008-04-07T10:26:11-08:00 http://www.idealawyerblog.com/2008/04/monday_madness_hedgehog_as_a_w.html Toss a hedgehog, go to jail.... NZ man 'used hedgehog as weapon' A man in New Zealand has been charged with using a hedgehog as a weapon, the New Zealand Herald has reported. Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled... deborah 2008-04-07T08:54:19-08:00