She’s Japanese, speaks fluent English, has BS and MS in Aquatic Biosciences from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and used to work in the Japanese Patent Office.  Drop me a line at nipper@inventblog.com if you’d like me to forward you her resume.

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Buffy: You left me a message?
Jeffrey: You weren’t home! Like always.
Buffy: You broke up with my machine?

–Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Apparently, the ABA recently decided to essentially break up with Erik J. Heel’s machine, axing perhaps the most useful, timely and relevant information in its Law Practice magazine, Erik’s “nothing.but.net” column on technology.  According to Erik…they didn’t even say thanks or explain why.  Sad.

Here’s to hoping they reconsider.  If not, rest assured that we can all still read Erik’s blog to get the latest scoop on technology.

By the way, if you enjoy The Invent Blog, you will likely enjoy Erik’s too (in my opinion, both are technology blogs by patent attorneys (instead of being per se “patent blogs”)).

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He mentions searching via the SEC’s EDGAR database, but I have a trick of the trade for doing just that:

The SEC has an extensive collection of documents online…but they are horribly indexed and impossible to search effectively.  See:  http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar

SECInfo.com has what they claim is “a searchable database of the most-sophisticated Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR® database and Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) SEDAR® database service on the Web, with billions of links added to the SEC/CSA documents and exhibits to enable easier navigation…”  SECInfo.com’s approach is much better…but it’s still not Google.

What if we use Google to search the SECInfo.com databases?

Let’s presume that we were looking for patent license agreement with a royalty rate that is adjusted based on inflation.

Searching Google for:

site:secinfo.com “patent license agreement” royalty “inflation adjustment”

Yields 34 hits, including:

Just don’t infringe any copyrights while you use that trick of the trade….

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Did you know he had a patent? See this 2004 Invent Blog post.

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The $10,000 question is whether the precipitous drope in USPTO revenue was caused by the economy, or by the previous administration’s policies that dropped allowance rates from near 80% to near 40% (which itself results in less issue fee revenue, less maintanance fee revenue, and fewer filings).  Perhaps it was a combination of the two…I guess we’ll never know.

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…the types of insurance that might cover IP, what to do when you have a possible claim, and strategies for working with insurers.  We also briefly discuss a recent case from the Minnesota Supreme Court (General Casualty Co. of WI v. Hobbit Travel) that held that trademark infringement claims trigger ”advertising injury” provisions of insurance policies…

See “I Words – the Intersection of Insurance and IP” at bpgradio.com .

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Like other Forgotten Attachment Detectors on the web, when you send an email FAD checks it for keywords that indicate you’ve forgotten to attach an attachment. If it detects this, it notifies you and gives you a chance to correct any mistakes.

Link:  Forgotten Attachment Detector.

Forgetting an attachment is a big thing.  It makes you look sloppy and wastes time (both yours and the recipient’s).  If you use Outlook, you really should consider using this (or another) FAD.

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The software sits in your task bar, searches all of your hard drives (or anywhere else you tell it to (e.g., your server)), and then when you push CTR-SHIFT-J it lets you quickly navigate to a folder by file name.  If you have a file naming convention for your files (like most attorneys do), it is really easy to navigate quickly to (for instance) the “ACME.001921″ folder.  Amazing.

The program isn’t out of beta yet, but if you go to Bob Ambrogi’s site you can find a link to the beta and password:  http://www.legaline.com/2009/05/new-tool-jumps-to-right-windows-folder.html.

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