@design-law.bsky.social
Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech. Teaching Property, Patents & Design Law. Currently writing about #ScheduleA litigation. Scholarship: https://ssrn.com/author=1616651
Another (art) historical irony: the immediately recognizable bust of FDR on the old dime is thought to have been based on the work of African American sculptor Selma Burke, who long went uncredited for her work blog.gale.com/selma-burke-...
Legal writers: I've posted to SSRN a short user's guide about how to use the Zotero citation manager and its Word plugin to automatically generate Bluebook citations that are 95%* compliant. The paper explains which fields to use for which type of source, and examples of generated citations.
ICYMI: Some highly questionable statutory construction from the USPTO. #DesignPatents
Honestly, it's so hard to keep track of all these cases. The serial plaintiffs and identical case names do not help.
So I never watched the US version, so I can't compare. I only started the Sverige ones after some native Swedish speakers recommend them to me. After that, I watched some other ones in the languages I'm studying (Spanish and French). But the Swedish version is my favorite
AI quickly developing skills to become Provost.
Here, by quickly coming to a conclusion and then engaging in "performative explanations."
#Satire
Oh yes, the fact that the USPTO does not get the last word (or any deference) is going to be my first talking point
Okay, time to practice my Swedish listening and reading comprehension:
From personal experience, Northeastern’s rapid expansion was an administrative trash fire. My kid had a dozen swiftly rotating advisors over his time there, none of whom could explain graduation requirements or fixing problems with anything. Great teachers, awful administration.
Promoting the idea that higher education is antiquated & failing is a win for corporations bc (1) it gives them a product to sell-ed tech-that will supposedly fix our broken teaching and (2) it deflects attention away from the real problem which is systemic assaults by corporate America on workers.
Note there is nothing in this piece about the benefit to students. "Success" is defined in this piece as capacity to further the program of commercial capture of education & revenue-generation through distance-learning. An example here and then a laughable follow-up in my next post.
Gotta use that tenure privilege while it lasts, right?
Like does someone NEED to expressly lay out the economics here? Or is that already obvious to everyone?
here’s a student take from an ivy grad. imagine what it’s like for non-ivy students.
I'm talking to two reporters about Squire's design "clarification" on Monday.
I need to decide exactly how blunt I want to be.
Oh, and for anyone who's tempted to say "but isn't design patent protection broader than copyright, because of fair use and independent creation and stuff?"
No.
Not for designs, it's not.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A PUBLIC GOOD
It’s kind of amazing to see the country do everything it can to destroy its higher education system out of a fit of pique.
I was in school with VanDyke, and he always enjoyed what people now call trolling. He’s just the same now, but with a commission.
fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.
Hervé Télémaque, No Title (The Ugly American), 1962/64
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But Kali, they are very smol. And it's their birthday
The process isn't “due” because they're Americans; it is “due” because they are people, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I could swear I read that somewhere important.
Would you like a little rest?
I made this little video for you. It’s just trees. A small creek. Nothing happens. It’s 2 minutes long.
Come sit 🔉
1/ I got my start in the Patent Admin Wars of the 2000s where a bunch of scrappy scholars got together to force the USPTO to act like a normal agency. We won. However, the new Director of the agency has taken us back to the dark days of Caspar Smoot.
How Flower-Obsessed Victorians Encoded Messages in Bouquets
Victorians used flowers a lot like we use emoji /
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how...
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* Note that not all #ScheduleA defendants are foreign. Or counterfeiters.
