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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Delain Law Office

Twitter may have a tough time with getting trademark registration for TWEET – is TWEET generic? http://tinyurl.com/m4kjmn #
US Dept. of Justice officially opening antitrust investigation into Google Book Search http://tinyurl.com/kuezjp #
I just took the "Which Harry Potter Character Are You?" quiz and got: Remus Lupin! Try it: http://bit.ly/lr50G #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Delain Law Office

http://tinyurl.com/mjrvqt Ed McMahon died. That’s the passing of an epoch there. RIP, Ed. #
RT @newward New blog post: Woman fined to tune of $1.9 million for illegal downloads – CNN.com http://bit.ly/cDisL Copyright Law Has Teeth!! #
RT @fredabramson RT @AndyBarovick: Schumer introduces bill to allow members of military to sue for medical malpractice. http://bit.ly/6Mxk8 #
RT @mikk_IPRIP Insight June 2009 http://is.gd/1d3au A nice set of links from the UK IP Office. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-15

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Delain Law Office

I just joined the LawLink Twitter Forum. To join visit: http://www.lawlink.com/twitter #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Delain Law Office

Living Well http://networkedblogs.com/p5441487 Listen up, Lawyers and others. Good stuff here. Pay attention as you walk down those stairs!! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Delain Law Office

RT @IP_Updates Boldrin’s “Against IP” condemns monopoly profits generated thru copyright & patent http://is.gd/AY4 . Hm. I disagree w/ that. #
Aaron Greenspan, FaceBook.com settle their trademark dispute … perhaps not amicably? http://tinyurl.com/qee3r4 This is a kick in the tail. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Delain Law Office

waiting for a client, then for a friend and a lovely dinner this evening…. #

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Are you dead? Your IP isn't

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Delain Law Office

Albert Einstein, who died in 1955, earned $18 million last year.

Charles M. Schulz, whose PEANUTS characters live on in syndicated reprints, earned even more.

Ted Geisel, who will live forever in his timeless Cat in the Hat and Lorax and Sneetches and wacky machinery, earned more yet.

We all know you can’t take it with you, but you can keep earning it even when you’re not here to earn it. Well, not you, but the value of your intellectual property can carry on after you go gently into that good night.

Thus, if you’re the owner of any intellectual property at all, you need to bother protecting it. Whether you benefit from the protection personally or not, your heirs may very well benefit from it.

If the copyright in your work of authorship isn’t registered, register it. It costs $45 in the US, plus the time to fill in the Copyright Office’s #$% form if you do it yourself; it’s a bit more expensive to hire an attorney to do this for you, but you stand a better chance of successfully battling off any challenge that the Copyright Office might mount to your registration.

If the trademark that you’ve been using to designate your goods or services in commerce isn’t registered, register it. This is more involved than is copyright registration and you really should have an attorney do this for you.

While we pay lip service to the common-law rights of an intellectual property owner, registration of intellectual property rights provides significantly — SIGNFICANTLY — more and better protection.

IP can be passed on to another by will. You need to work with your attorney who handles your will and estate in concert with your attorney who handles intellectual property matters (and these are probably two different lawyers) to properly protect and pass on your IP. Your IP is a valuable part of your estate and needs to be treated every bit as decisively as does the dining room table or the computer or the … whatever.

After all, Einstein earned $18 million last year for his estate; why shouldn’t you do that after you’re gone?

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Delain Law Office

http://tinyurl.com/c59j6k McDonald’s loses TM infringemt in Malaysia-“Mc” ok for eatery use with no misrep. to public. Don’t try this in US. #
RT @IP_UpdatesBPAI Judges Get Patent Attorney Clerks-http://is.gd/vhMz #
RT @jerell BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Justice David Souter to retire at the end of the current term http://go.twittertruth.com/... #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-27

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Delain Law Office

RT @DebraTuomey http://bit.ly/eDOKo Ninth Circuit Denies YouTube’s Bid to Revive Tur Case #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-19

Posted on April 19, 2009July 23, 2016 by Delain Law Office

Opera singer Marian Anderson couldn’t sing here b/c she was black; historic concert celebrated 70 yrs later http://tinyurl.com/cwje6z #
Be honest now: how likely are you to use social media to decide what lawyer to hire for your bus…: http://socialtoo.com/survey/view/2519 #
RT @konterfai_rss: Google Patent Application on How Users Can Add Pages to Search Results (via Google Reader) http://twurl.nl/nehm37 #
HELP!! Why can’t I respond thru Twitter to someone who DM’d me but is not following me?? #
Never mind; if my DMer wants a response to her question, she needs to allow the contact; her profile is set up to not let me respond. #
Nominated Entrepreneur of Year at Southern Saratoga Chamber! Vote for me at http://tinyurl.com/c2nysn Not a Chamber member? Vote anyway! #
AOL asks for DJ in US District Court in San Francisco to declare they don’t infringe Yahoo’s patents http://tinyurl.com/dd9qcc #
AMBER ALERT – PLEASE RT: http://tinyurl.com/d2d93d 14-year-old girl missing since wkend; pic & contact info on this site; any info welcome. #
AMBER ALERT – PLEASE RT: http://tinyurl.com/d2d93d 14-year-old girl missing since wkend; pic & contact info on this site; any info welcome. #
Have you registered your profile on Twellow, the Twitter directory? I just did: http://twellow.com/u/ipattorneyfirm #
They found the missing 14-year-old girl from Colorado safe & sound, thanks to the impact of the internet! Yay!! Tweeting & Re-Tweeting Work! #
PLS RETWEET. I have a book burning inside me & need to hear from relatives of pharmacists Sally Adgate trained. http://tinyurl.com/AuntSally #

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