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- Research preview: the historical case for vaccination
  Posted on 2010-02-13 20:28:16
- Dear Starbucks and AT&T: fix your WiFi!
  Posted on 2010-02-07 08:00:19
- Preparation for the California bar exam
  Posted on 2010-02-16 21:51:49
- How to write attributions for the Creative Commons licensed images you use on your blog
  Posted on 2010-01-07 11:00:11
- Wait, Second Life still exists? And universities still use it?
  Posted on 2010-02-19 12:43:09
- Are universities about selling information?
  Posted on 2010-03-07 09:50:25
- Is scientific peer review censorship?
  Posted on 2010-02-28 13:30:29
- Yelp sued, argues lawsuit is without merit
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- Are books -- electronic or not -- becoming "fringe media"?
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- 2January 7, 2010
  How to write attributions for the Creative Commons licensed images you…
  
  I've found that pictures shared under a Creative Commons (CC) license (of all flavors) are a great resource for bloggers who want artwork to accompany their posts. I've also realized that not everyone, myself included,…
- 0January 25, 2010
  Want clients? Be helpful and do good
  
  "Be helpful and do good" is a deceptively simple strategy: just go out and help people, and clients will find you. (Just don't forget to make it easy to be found!)
- 2August 21, 2009
  The case of the disappearing case law
  
  The cloud consists of data and services that live on someone else's servers. Although the term itself is new(ish), the basic idea is embodied by traditional legal research services like LexisNexis and Westlaw -- data…
- 0May 11, 2009
  Are Westlaw and LexisNexis simply selling "free" information?
  
  Image by mattlary via Flickr Minneapolis News — Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information: West makes its money by selling free, public information — specifi�…
- 0May 11, 2009
  Are Westlaw and LexisNexis simply selling "free" information?
  
  Image by mattlary via Flickr Minneapolis News — Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information: West makes its money by selling free, public information — specifi�…
Recommendations
- 0June 16, 2009
  Narratives and evidence in the litigation of high-tech patents
  
  Colleen Chien has a paper in SSRN, dated April of 2009, that explores the narrative of patents, from the epithet of "troll" applied to patent owners who seek only to leverage their patent through licensing, and not…
- 0April 17, 2009
  Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity
  
  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity…
- 0May 5, 2009
  IP and Traditional Knowledge
  
  Image via Wikipedia The Uneasy Case for Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge by Stephen Munzer, Kal Raustiala: Should traditional knowledgeâ€”the understanding or skill possessed by indig…
- 0March 22, 2009
  Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries
  
  Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries, an article in YaleGlobal from 2002 by Amy Kapczynski:…
- 0May 9, 2009
  The Failure of Public WiFi
  
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife SSRN-The Failure of Public WiFi by Eric Fraser: This short piece describes the failure of the widespread plans to provide public wireless internet access. It identi�…
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