Michael W. Shapiro

Netflix Urges Court to Hold Litigation Funder in Contempt (2) Netflix Corp. is seeking sanctions against a Northern Virginia litigation funder, the latest escalation in the streamer’s three-plus-year battle over what it describes as a frivolous patent litigation...

Is there an audience on BSky for patent law stories?

My latest on Netflix's motion to hold patent litigation funder AiPi in contempt for its alleged foot dragging in the face of a subpoena. The case spotlights NoVa-based AiPi & about 140 cases it bankrolled:

news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netfl...

A patent law bombshell just dropped. Great reporting from my colleagues Jacqueline Thomsen and Ryan Autullo.

Instagram post from Away luggage, tagline "even lookalikes travel with the real thing." showing a young man whose lookalike is unrecognizable to me; vague resemblance to Bruce Springsteen? I am old.

right of publicity question of the day, lookalikes back in vogue edition

Reposting this IP profs starter pack for newcomers. Let me know if you’d like to be added go.bsky.app/EUN2DAN

I’m MC Escher and I’m here to say
that I go up stairs in an unusual way!

::confusing beatbox noises::

*showing up to court in a black robe

Well, one of us is going to have to change, your honor

I was ranting about a variation of this recently where her opponent would be Rivers or maybe it’d be a three-person primary between Rivers, Lake, and Alsobrooks

Echoes of “bobolink” from the bee a few days ago

“no flex, zone” Wing Stop ad has replaced cars-4-kids jingle in my nightmares

This study is so good, you have to read it:

www.404media.co/writing-your...

'Wanted to cry': Bay Area woman stunned after Hawaii home built on wrong lot In 2018, Anne Reynolds bought an acre of empty green land on Hawaii's Big Island where the stars aligned. Then, someone built a house on it.

1L property professors, feast your eyes

www.sfgate.com/hawaii/artic...

Are You Legally Entitled to a Birkin? This is what happens when wealthy shoppers run headlong into actual scarcity.

I wrote about why Hermès drives rich people so buck wild that two recently filed a federal antitrust suit over not being able to get their hands on a Birkin. (Gift link, free to read!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Fed Circuit shot down a design patent application covering a waffle with a waffle-y side and a smooth ("planar") side. The court agreed with a PTO examiner who found that the claimed design was anticipated/predated by the "Belgian Waffle Sandwich Video" posted to YouTube in 2016.

My Robotic Doppelganger Is The Grim Face of Journalism's Future! As journalism endures catastrophic financial collapse, I watch software seize my long-lost archives, erase my name—or attribute my work to a fake person. PLUS: Evan and I sign on Friday!

Tyreece Bauer.
Karan Emery.
Landon Morton.
These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website.
As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future – or a robotic facsimile thereof – built by desecrating its past.

I see your Who’s Who and raise you a Wikipedia page

Go home bins, you’re drunk!

For people interested in patent litigation, transparency, or (dare I even suggest) both, this order from Judge Wolson, sitting by designation in D. Del. is the order for you:

"Motions to seal judicial records are a big deal."

www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/fi...

design patent disclosing a figurine shaped like an anthropomorphized egg with a cowboy hat, boots, a belt and a lasso

D232,115 - issued in 1974 for a design for a "humpty dumpty sheriff toy." #DesignPatents

Headline from Billboard reading "Nickelback Beats Song-Theft Lawsuit Over 'Rockstar' At Appeals Court: 'Mere Cliches' Aren't Infrinfement

I always say that copyright infringement lawsuits aren't for the thin-skinned. Even when you win you have to be braced for headlines saying that you won because you were just singing cliches lol

I’ll allow it

Ah the pocket dimension. I got off my train, but several oblivious people did not (even with my wild gesturing) and off they went.

I picture them languishing in metro jail or a maybe in a “man who never returned” situation

To DC metro people. Anyone stayed on an out-of-service yellow line train north from Mt Vernon Sq Sta? What happens to the people who ignore the instructions to de-train?

Voicemail to client: Hello client, I am supposed to talk with your financial advisor this morning before your teleconference with them and I wanted to touch base with you first... and I can't figure out how to end a sentence today and wasn't expecting it to go to voicemail. Uhh.. bye.

Nailed it.

This is a rare example of the #judiciary holding a judge #accountable for misconduct.

Yet I've been appalled by Judge Newman's behavior, I told @bloomberglp.bsky.social ‘s @mwshapiro.bsky.social 👇 news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge...

Guest appearance by Judge Bencivengo (S.D. Cal.) on a Ct. of App. for the Fed. Circuit panel this morning w/ Moore and Stoll

Someone Used AI To Rewrite My Book. It’s So Much Worse Than I Could Have Imagined. Amazon is filled with knockoff “summary” books.

After reading an article about the rise of “scammy AI generated book rewrites” in Wired, I looked up whether there was one of my book.

There was. And it is SO much worse than I could have imagined.

Trump Trials Heighten Security Risks for Vulnerable Judiciary False reports of shootings or bomb threats at two judges presiding over cases involving former President Donald Trump highlight the security challenges for the judiciary as the 2024 White House conten...

False reports of shootings or bomb threats at two judges presiding over cases involving former President Donald Trump highlight the security challenges for the judiciary as the 2024 White House contender faces trials in multiple courthouses, Suzanne Monyak reports.

Has anyone else been subjected to the Teams messenger “praise” button? A deeply creepy feature

Former Trump Fixer Michael Cohen’s Latest Brief Filled With Fake Cases And We All Know Where This ... It seems that generative AI has struck again.

It's not that the brief includes fake cases, it's how lazy the lawyer had to be not to catch the fake cases.