Associate's Mind

  Compare: I’ll be arriving at John F Kennedy airport on Friday evening; please meet the British Airways Concorde flight. Arr JFK Fri pm, pls mt BA Cncrd flt At first blush, I imagine many will lament the latter as a denigration of speech by young people immersed in text messages and Twitter. It certainly [...]

  It’s probably old hat to most people who spend any amount of time online at this point, but in case you weren’t aware, Congress is in the process of considering the PROTECT IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Like most bills in Congress, the name of the bill makes it sound like [...]

I came across a new law blog recently, entitled Circuit Splits, focused on splits in appellate courts sitting in different federal circuits. It’s a new blog, but it shows promise. In a recent post, they put up something I had been looking for in the past in and thought I would share: different ways to [...]

  Maybe others were aware of this, but I was not. Starting in 2007, the Law Library of Congress began archiving blawgs: The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics.  Blawgs can also be retrieved by keywords or browsed by subject, name, or title. I went [...]

  Over at r/law on Reddit, someone asked the question: “What are the most amazing Supreme Court oral arguments of the past few years?” The user had their own opinion: I discovered that the U.S. Supreme Court publishes audio of oral arguments online, which can be freely downloaded by anyone. I also discovered Oyez, which [...]

  Remember that party from college? That crazy time where we went and picked up the security guard from our apartment complex on the Strip at 2 am? And instead of picking him up, we ended up going out with him and walking down the Strip barefoot. Then the sorority! And what about when the [...]

  For the unaware, one of the greatest potential disruptors for entire swaths of the global economy over the next decade is 3D printing. From Wikipedia: 3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printers are generally faster, more [...]

  As I’ve written about before, there is growing pressure on the legal industry from large companies that are producing standardized “form” documents for consumers at much lower costs than obtaining such documents from a traditional law firm. Yet somewhere in that process, a lawyer was at least involved in the creation of these form [...]

  In last week’s post on Criminal Activity and Your IP address, I outlined how people use TOR (The Onion Router) in order to conceal their IP address in order to maintain a certain level of anonymity online. But a bare bones use of the TOR system is not actually as secure as it should [...]

I recently received a review copy of Quisitive, a new iOS app for screening name ideas and searching U.S. trademarks from Weblaws.org. Upon starting Quisitive, you are presented with the following screen: One simply has to enter in a name, owner, or registration/serial number, and Quisitive will query the United States Patent & Trademark Office [...]