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It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.</feedburner:browserFriendly><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-925660789344855809</id><published>2009-11-11T00:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T00:28:56.350+01:00</updated><title type="text">What is Patentable? Bilski Patent Case Oral Argument Heard at the United States Supreme Court : We Hope for Adoption of the Transformative Standard</title><content type="html">On Monday, November 9, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the Bilski patent case, the judicial resolution of which is bound to have far-reaching consequences on the way that the United States and the rest of the world view and treat patents (see the &lt;a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/08-964.pdf"&gt;original transcript of the arguments here&lt;/a&gt; - hat tip to Kevin E. Noonan at PatentDocs in &lt;a href="http://www.patentdocs.org/2009/11/supreme-court-bilski-argument.html"&gt;Supreme Court Bilski Argument&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the Supreme Court may decide the case narrowly with respect to the particular facts of the Bilski business method patent case, the reasons which the Supreme Court sets out as the basis for its decision will nevertheless have broad application in law, for the Supreme Court can not duck the pressing legal patent issues and must provide a flexible standard NOW, inserting stability into a system currently ruled by chaos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe Mullin at The American Lawyer in &lt;a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202435316698&amp;amp;Supreme_Skepticism_Over_Bilski_Claims_Puts_Method_Patents_on_Shaky_Ground&amp;amp;slreturn=1&amp;amp;hbxlogin=1"&gt;Supreme Skepticism Over Bilski Claims Puts Method Patents on Shaky Ground&lt;/a&gt; writes in this regard that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;"For the first time in almost 30 years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday considered the issue of what types of technology should be eligible for patent protection when it heard oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;Across the board, the justices indicated a deep skepticism toward the invention described in the patent application at issue, which was rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and describes a method for trading commodities. Some of the justices went even further--expressing both a fair amount of disdain for the idea of granting broad "method" patents and a concern that ruling in favor of the petitioners would lead to patent grants on fundamental ways of conducting business or organizing human behavior. "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;We have posted about the landmark Bilski case from the very beginning and our line of reasoning - prior to the court decisions - anticipated what the courts decided:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/01/in-re-kubin-hitting-nail-on-head.htm"&gt;In re Kubin : Hitting the NAIL on the Head : Sequencing Poor Federal Circuit Court Decisions out of the Biotechnology Patent Genome via KSR and/or Bilski Reasoning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2008/11/in-re-bilski-patentable-subject-matter.htm"&gt;In re Bilski : Patentable Subject Matter : Federal Circuit Overturns Pure Business Method Patents : Requires Machine Process / Physical Transformation &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2008/03/federal-circuit-to-review-business.htm"&gt;Federal Circuit to Review Business Method Patents for Future Viability : There is a Great Likelihood of a New Upcoming Legal Standard &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2008/03/patentability-of-business-methods-and.htm"&gt;The Patentability of Business Methods and the Upcoming Federal Circuit Hearing en banc in Ex parte Bilski&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For our part, we hope that the standard adopted is the transformative one. Transformation is the operative element that is common not only to patents but also to copyright law, for it is "transformation" which is the inventive step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A copyrighted work is after all - in most cases - simply a unique transformation of commonly used words of the language or languages written. Since nearly every word is in a sense "copied" from prior art, and since many elements of any written work are common to many works due to the linguistically identifiable rules of grammar and syntax, almost any truly transformative work still necessarily contains many copied "elements". It is therefore the transformative nature of a work as a whole which must be judged and not its individual parts per se.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as patents are concerned, the same reasoning applies. Any transformation of "matter" or of a more abstract element of technology such as software or medical knowledge necessarily "copies", i.e. it relies on many elements of prior art to reach a new discovery. An inventive step is never taken in a vacuum and can therefore as good as never be divorced from the environment in which it takes place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An invention is the whole work and it is entirely conceivable to imagine a fantastic new written work or invention made up totally of otherwise copyrighted or patented parts - for which the copyright or patent holders of those parts should in the case of such an invention nevertheless get nothing, because a transformation has taken place in the new whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A transformative standard can also be equally applied to software products (as a whole) or to new medical advances (as products), i.e. the transformative software (as a product) should be patentable, but NOT elements of the software code, and similarly, transformative medical discoveries should be patentable, but NOT the methods used to achieve them, e.g. transformative new ways to synthesize a gene should be patentable, but not the gene itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of business methods, a transformative software product implementing a particular business method should be patentable - but NOT the business method itself. Until a business method is APPLIED, no transformation has occurred. Therefore, only a product which performs such a transformation can be patented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We see no serious problems with a transformative standard - which need not be tied to machines or any other technology. The inventive step should be universally recognizable as a reproducible transformation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The view voiced by some commentators and also expressed by some judges and also U.S. Supreme Court Justices that the Bilski patent might be rejected as being merely "an abstract idea" is an intellectual cop-out and begs the question of drawing the necessary line between "an abstract idea" and "an inventive step". WHERE that line is to be drawn is the job of the U.S. Supreme Court to determine and the Supremes therefore can not avoid the establishment of a standard simply by rejecting Bilski's business method as "an abstract idea".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question is, when does a non-obvious abstract idea become an invention? And that question, the Court must answer. They have little choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We suggest that the only viable answer is the transformative standard.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-925660789344855809?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/925660789344855809" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/925660789344855809" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-patentable-bilski-patent-case.htm" title="What is Patentable? Bilski Patent Case Oral Argument Heard at the United States Supreme Court : We Hope for Adoption of the Transformative Standard" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-1505543933622170487</id><published>2009-11-10T21:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T21:04:14.910+01:00</updated><title type="text">Limited-Edition Design Sneakers are the Status Symbols of Choice : CNN : Sneakerheads pay big bucks for rare kicks : Shoes and More</title><content type="html">Do you know any young lawyers who wear "design" sneakers to the office? There may be a good reason. Limited-edition design sneakers are status symbols of choice among many young people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/homestyle/05/27/sneaker.head.culture/index.html"&gt;See 'Sneakerheads' pay big bucks for rare kicks at CNN.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"kicks" is jargon for "shoes"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In part because of what has been labeled "&lt;a href="http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/special-reports/other-reports/e3i9f25616ad2abf49d0422a0cf19a5c354?pn=2"&gt;the Great Magazine Die-Off of 2009&lt;/a&gt;",&lt;br /&gt;online websites and bloggers dominate this market.&lt;br /&gt;See AdWeek's "&lt;a href="http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/special-reports/other-reports/e3i9f25616ad2abf49d0422a0cf19a5c354?pn=2"&gt;Sneakerheads Rule&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Web frontrunners include such websites as &lt;a href="http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/special-reports/other-reports/e3i9f25616ad2abf49d0422a0cf19a5c354?pn=2"&gt;NiceKicks.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.sneakerhead.com/"&gt;Sneakerhead&lt;/a&gt;, plus also more general fashion websites that concentrate big on sneakers such as &lt;a href="http://hypebeast.com/"&gt;HypeBeast&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.ubiqlife.com/"&gt;UBIQ Life&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.complex.com/SNEAKERS"&gt;Complex Sneakers Blog&lt;/a&gt; is probably the most popular blog in this field, but we warn you of the many pictures and videos of pinup girls. I personally checked out the site - all in the interest of our readers, of course - and everything looks to be &lt;a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hunky-dory"&gt;hunky dory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other blog and website examples in this field are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.firstpullover.com/"&gt;First Pullover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sneakart.com/bin/WebObjects/SneakArt"&gt;Sneakart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kicksonfire.com/"&gt;KicksOnFire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://collected.at/sneakers"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sneakers Collected&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-1505543933622170487?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/1505543933622170487" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/1505543933622170487" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/11/limited-edition-design-sneakers-are.htm" title="Limited-Edition Design Sneakers are the Status Symbols of Choice : CNN : Sneakerheads pay big bucks for rare kicks : Shoes and More" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-7323797380106337766</id><published>2009-11-10T20:59:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T21:11:55.892+01:00</updated><title type="text">JS-Kit's ECHO is a Useful Application for Website and Blog Publishers Which Integrates User Comments and Photos in a Social Media Networking Style</title><content type="html">Google Wave - now in beta - is coming as one example of a new way to deal with information on an interactive social media networking basis. Lesser known is the new online application from JS-Kit called Echo which we are going to add to one of our online sites and see how it works, because it appears to us to be a blockbuster application in permitting social media type networking comments and interaction to website pages and blog postings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See &lt;a href="http://wiki.js-kit.com/Echo+-+For+Publishers"&gt;JS-Kit Community Wiki / Echo - For Publishers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="220"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6406485&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6406485&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="220"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/6406485"&gt;Introducing Echo&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user2248288"&gt;JS-Kit&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-7323797380106337766?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Once again, democracy and freedom had emerged victorious over tyranny - as they always do. Civilization prevails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We pay due homage and respect to the fallen and to the families of the fallen of the 9/11 in the United States - may their memories live in the hearts of all - but the German 9/11 will most likely have the longer-term impact on world affairs. Perhaps then, even &lt;a href="http://visualberlin.org/news/9-11-11-9-new-york/"&gt;a mesh of both dates&lt;/a&gt; might be the optimal viewpoint, since both events remind us all not only of the enemies of civilization but also of the ultimate victory of freedom and democracy in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4873553,00.html"&gt;Deutsche Welle&lt;/a&gt; writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;"Opinion:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;November 9th was Germany's - and the world's - lucky day.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;People should celebrate reunification, not critique it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;While Germany is busy celebrating twenty years as a unified country, some are critical of the reunification process. But DW's Marc Koch believes November 9th deserves to be made into a national holiday.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;It is a day of evocative pictures and touching accounts, and of pathos and platitudes as well. Yet more than anything, November 9, 1989, was the most auspicious day in modern German and European history.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;Not only did it symbolize the end of an ailing and unjust system, and the reunification of a country after 40 years of division, it was also the day on which everyone could experience the long-evoked values of unity, justice and freedom. A moment of triumph in which society could celebrate itself."&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Victor Sebestyen writes at the Guardian that &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/september-11-berlin-wall-communism"&gt;The Berlin wall was the real 9/11&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;"The heady events in Berlin in 1989 had far more impact than the rise of Islamism.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;Today is the real 9/11. This is not meant as a quibble about dates. Future historians will remember 9 November 1989 as far more significant than that terrifying day in September eight years ago. Countless long-forgotten events have been marked in headlines as the day we shall all remember. But nobody can doubt that the world changed on that wonderful night in Berlin.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;When the Berlin Wall fell, communism died. Events have moved on fast since then. A new clash of civilisations – or in many ways an old one – began to surface. Now it is hard for anyone under about 40 to remember communism. To recap: it was that once idealistic, inspirational creed promising equality, freedom from exploitation and the creation of a new perfect humankind. The problem was that people had an annoying refusal to be perfected.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;Almost always communism was imposed at the point of a gun and created labour camps and bread queues. The Stalins, Mao Zedongs and Pol Pots turned communism into the bloodiest social experiment of all time. History will mark 9 November 1989 as the day it was seen off as a miserable failure....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 November was gloriously happy. Anything seemed possible that night. 11 September was a day that sparked panic and fear. I know which is a better 9/11 to remember."&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/september-11-berlin-wall-communism"&gt;Read the rest here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-5050507038230442028?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/1771381542967656553" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/1771381542967656553" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/11/lawyers-must-change-with-times-legal.htm" title="Lawyers Must Change With the Times : Legal Industry Facing Unprecedented Change : Unbound by David Galbenski Examines Legal Services Today" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-7592573031112253217</id><published>2009-11-07T08:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T08:55:25.222+01:00</updated><title type="text">Golf Tips and Information for the Golfing Attorneys</title><content type="html">See&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lifestyle.resourcesforattorneys.com/golfing/"&gt;Golf - Golfing Tips And Information&lt;/a&gt; at Golfing : Lifestyle Resources by Resources for Attorneys.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-7592573031112253217?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="related" href="http://ipenforcement.wordpress.com/" title="Ipenforcement's Blog" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/3109572084426070528" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/3109572084426070528" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/11/ipenforcements-blog.htm" title="Ipenforcement's Blog" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-6241897427077452726</id><published>2009-11-04T13:49:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T00:23:00.039+01:00</updated><title type="text">European Union "Constitutional" Lisbon Treaty now ratified by All 27 EU Member States as Czech Republic signs the Lisbon Treaty on November 3, 2009</title><content type="html">An economically AND politically and militarily united European Union will in the course of time become the world's leading power - a development resisted in many quarters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday was therefore a great step forward in the right direction with the &lt;a href="http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/countries/index_en.htm#"&gt;ratification&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/index_en.htm"&gt;Treaty of Lisbon&lt;/a&gt; as the virtual Constitution of the EU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matthias C. Kettemann, an Austrian LL.M. student at Harvard, writes in the &lt;a href="http://www.hlrecord.org/opinion/we-the-people-of-europe-how-the-lisbon-treaty-makes-the-eu-more-democratic-1.858977"&gt;Harvard Law Record&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We, the People of Europe: How the Lisbon Treaty makes the EU more democratic&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;Today, after the Czech Republic's highest court failed to find any grounds on which it was unconstitutional, Czech President Václav Klaus finally signed the Lisbon Treaty . The treaty's reforms will now enter into force on December 1, 2010. The debate on its contents, however, is far from over.&lt;/span&gt;"(read the rest &lt;a href="http://www.hlrecord.org/opinion/we-the-people-of-europe-how-the-lisbon-treaty-makes-the-eu-more-democratic-1.858977"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;From a nation-state point of view, as the German Federal Constitutional Court emphasized in a &lt;a href="http://www.german-info.com/press_shownews.php?pid=1296"&gt;decision&lt;/a&gt; on Germany's then impending ratification of the Lisbon Treaty this past summer, the problem is that the EU is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;not &lt;/span&gt;a&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;federation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;of states, but rather&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; is&lt;/span&gt; primarily a union of 27&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;sovereign&lt;/span&gt; states, a situation which makes unity in economic, political or military affairs extremely difficult.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One could compare this to the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;hypothetical &lt;/span&gt;of 50 sovereign U.S. States each having a governor and a legislature that were more powerful than the President of the United States or its Congress, and each State having its own armed forces, foreign diplomats, etc. It would be chaos, and such a union would be a very weak one, hardly able to withstand modern demands and dangers from without and clearly unable to fulfill the American dream or destiny within.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seen realistically, it is in fact quite remarkable that the EU functions as well as it does, and the main reason that it DOES function, is that the leading political, economic and intellectual echelons of European countries understand how very important it is to their all ultimate self-interest now and down the road, that the European Union become more solidified as a viable single entity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;How did things get that way in Europe? Essentially, today's remarkably peaceful and economically effective modern Europe - in the past always involved in countless strength-sapping wars - is the direct consequence of World War II and the recognition that things could not continue as they had in the previous eras, where Europe's political life had been largely dominated by the cravings of tyrants, by unfettered lust for "tribal" national power and for unearned stolen prosperity by conquest, domination and theft of others. Something had to give, and it did, as the early very small and loose economic unions, kept together by treaties, evolved into the European Common Market and ultimately into the European Union.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since its inception, the legal foundations of the European Union and its economic forbears were established by treaties. It is perhaps thus fitting that the "new"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; de facto "Constitution" &lt;/span&gt;of the European Union is also a treaty and not a purely constitutional document as such.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new Treaty - the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon"&gt;Treaty of Lisbon&lt;/a&gt; (also called the Lisbon Treaty or the Reform Treaty) - was &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;signed&lt;/span&gt; in Lisbon by all of the EU Member States on December 17, 2007 and with yesterday's November 3, 2009 ratification by the Czech Republic, the Lisbon Treaty &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;has now been ratified&lt;/span&gt; by all 27 EU States. See the progressive &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;moving &lt;/span&gt;map below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Treaty of Lisbon ratification process,&lt;br /&gt;December 20, 2007 to November 3, 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/ToL_Progress.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The order of ratification is shown by this progressive map,&lt;br /&gt;starting with Hungary and ending with the Czech Republic.&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ToL_Progress.gif"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, by the user &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Urpunkt"&gt;Urpunkt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-6241897427077452726?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/6241897427077452726" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/6241897427077452726" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/11/european-union-constitutional-lisbon.htm" title="European Union &quot;Constitutional&quot; Lisbon Treaty now ratified by All 27 EU Member States as Czech Republic signs the Lisbon Treaty on November 3, 2009" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-1104374069368988769</id><published>2009-11-04T00:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T00:48:01.713+01:00</updated><title type="text">Clean Water and Mountaintop Mining No Longer Mix : Becker's Iowa Environmental Law Update</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.iowaenvironmentallawupdate.com/2009/10/articles/environmental-politics/clean-water-and-mountaintop-mining-no-longer-mix/"&gt;Clean Water and Mountaintop Mining No Longer Mix : Becker's Iowa Environmental Law Update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-1104374069368988769?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/7960491297268234852" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/7960491297268234852" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/11/national-health-insurance-reality-of.htm" title="National Health Insurance : The Reality of Need" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-3946182212712347831</id><published>2009-10-31T19:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T19:33:10.344+01:00</updated><title type="text">Google Wave Blog at Waverful : The Wonderful (Waverful) World of Google Wave</title><content type="html">We think that Google Wave will be such a blockbuster application down the road that we have created a special blog, &lt;a href="http://waverful.blogspot.com/"&gt;WAVERFUL&lt;/a&gt;, for the Wonderful World of Google Wave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main problem right now, based upon what we have seen elsewhere - we do not have our own personal copy of Google Wave yet (you can send us an invite, thank you), is the problem of permissions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, for "serious" Google Wave uses, each Google Wave originator, or someone else authorized by that originator, will have to be in charge of granting permissions to access a Google Wave designed for a given public. You can not just send things out into the public domain - there are simply too many self-serving and nutty things that people are otherwise tempted to do - and, judging by experience - do do, if there is not some kind of authorizing moderator inbetween.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Modern institutions all work with hierarchies, indeed, multiple hierarchies - just look at your own work place - and there is a reason for this, because experience shows that it just does not work any other way, given the vagaries of human nature.&lt;br /&gt;Google Wave will be no different.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-3946182212712347831?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/3946182212712347831" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/3946182212712347831" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/10/google-wave-blog-at-waverful-wonderful.htm" title="Google Wave Blog at Waverful : The Wonderful (Waverful) World of Google Wave" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-2023688270971565192</id><published>2009-10-31T18:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T18:56:29.968+01:00</updated><title type="text">Google Wave in Law: What Does Google Wave Mean For Lawyers?</title><content type="html">Jay Fleischman on &lt;a href="http://untetheredlawyer.com/what-does-google-wave-mean-for-lawyer/"&gt;What Does Google Wave Mean For Lawyers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-2023688270971565192?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="related" href="http://untetheredlawyer.com/what-does-google-wave-mean-for-lawyer/" title="Google Wave in Law: What Does Google Wave Mean For Lawyers?" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/2023688270971565192" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/2023688270971565192" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/10/google-wave-in-law-what-does-google.htm" title="Google Wave in Law: What Does Google Wave Mean For Lawyers?" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-2595583714388028002</id><published>2009-10-31T18:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T18:34:40.383+01:00</updated><title type="text">The Scales of Justice, Blogging and Cable News Networks : The Origins of Lady Liberty</title><content type="html">The newest cable news stats show (hat tip to MEDIAite):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/polar-opposites-fox-seeing-best-ratings-cnn-and-msnbc-worst/"&gt;Polar Opposites: Fox News Seeing Best Ratings, CNN and MSNBC Worst&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not surprising to us, at least in the case of Fox News and CNN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fox News has long been known to be on the conservative side of things and now reflects the &lt;a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067"&gt;right-wing backlash&lt;/a&gt; against U.S. President Barack Obama while CNN has progressively drifted far too far to left, or as one viewer at &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/16/cnn-beclowns-itself/"&gt;Michelle Malkin&lt;/a&gt; writes: "&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"&gt;No wonder CNN only has three viewers. They don’t "report" for all Americans, only left-wing Americans, forgetting that half this country is on the right, almost a 50/50 split.&lt;/span&gt;" Picking up the slack at CNN is at least HLN, Headline News, formerly CNN2, whose ratings are strongly increasing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where, dear friends, do we find "fair and balanced" reporting?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogs - equally biased, of course - developed as balancing agents to the partisanship of the major cable news networks. But to be fair, it is not all bad, of course, and almost all original reporting is still done by the major news networks and newspapers, so we bloggers can probably more truthfully say that we are the powers at the fulcrum of the balance, i.e. at the pivotal point of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;scales of justice&lt;/span&gt;, as it were.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the Bay Weekly, J. Alex Knoll in Sky Watch, wrote about &lt;a href="http://www.bayweekly.com/year06/issuexiv3/skynewxiv3.html"&gt;The Heavenly Scales: From a weigher of souls to the stalwart of liberty&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;Libra ... the celestial scales [where the] second-magnitude, bluish-white star Zubenelgenubi [is located at] the fulcrum of the scales....&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;... nearly 4,000 years ago, the sun passed through Libra during autumnal equinox, when day and night are equal, and so, the Babylonians worshiped this constellation as the Ereshkigal, the goddess of the dead who weighed the souls of men. The Egyptian god Anubis, too, held the scales weighing life and death.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;The ancient Greeks, however, considered Libra but a part of Scorpius, its stars representing a lamp or lantern and later the lighthouse of Alexandria, held between the scorpion’s outstretched claws.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;But the Romans wrested the scales from the scorpion, giving them to Astraea, the goddess of justice. She wore a crown of grain, another symbol tied to the scales of early commerce, and she represents purity and innocence. Astraea was the last of the gods to leave earth during the Golden Age. She became Virgo, to the west of Libra, leaving her scales behind as a final gift to mankind. Today, we Americans know her as Lady Liberty.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-2595583714388028002?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="related" href="http://inventblog.com/ip-law-practice/google-wave-and-the-practice-of-ip-law.html" title="Google Wave and the practice of IP law | The Invent Blog®" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/4772649577451999990" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5867362/posts/default/4772649577451999990" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2009/10/google-wave-and-practice-of-ip-law.htm" title="Google Wave and the practice of IP law | The Invent Blog®" /><author><name>Andis Kaulins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724</uri><email>a1ndiskaulins@aol.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="15621397371652553895" /></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867362.post-3344440535301672316</id><published>2009-10-29T04:13:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-29T04:19:33.797+01:00</updated><title type="text">Naming Your Business: Choosing A Name Capable of Trademark Protection | Citizen Media Law Project</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/naming-your-business-choosing-name-capable-trademark-protection"&gt;Naming Your Business: Choosing A Name Capable of Trademark Protection&lt;/a&gt; is a non-commercially attribution-distributable article from the Citizen Media Law Project, Harvard - Berkman, which I think is worth sharing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;    &lt;p&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;"Choosing a distinctive name is important from a business  perspective, but it is also important if you want trademark law to  protect your business name. A business name is potentially a trademark  protected by the law, but this protection depends on the type of name  you choose.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;  As a general matter, the more unique or distinctive the name is, the greater trademark protection it receives. &lt;strong&gt;Fanciful&lt;/strong&gt; marks (made-up words like "Kodak"), &lt;strong&gt;arbitrary&lt;/strong&gt; marks (existing words used in a way unrelated to their normal meaning, like "Apple" for computers), and &lt;strong&gt;suggestive&lt;/strong&gt;  marks (those that hint at a quality or aspect of the product or  service, like "Netscape") receive the highest level of protection. You  can &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5867362#" title="Securing Trademark Rights: Registration"&gt;register&lt;/a&gt;  these kinds of trademarks immediately, without any evidence of  "secondary meaning" -- i.e., proof that, through your use of the name  in commerce, the public has come to identify it specifically with your  good or service. Similarly, in the event of a lawsuit, you would not  need to produce evidence of secondary meaning in order to make out your  case.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;  In contrast, a merely &lt;strong&gt;descriptive&lt;/strong&gt; name can only receive  full trademark protection after it acquires secondary meaning. Some  examples include names that describe the product or service directly,  such as Speedy Rental Car, or one that merely uses a person's name,  such as Smith Computers or Jane's Collectibles. Terms that describe the  geographic location of a good or service, like the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;,  also are considered descriptive, and they can be protected as  trademarks only upon proof that through use they have acquired  secondary meaning. If you choose a merely descriptive name for your  citizen media site or blog, you would not be able to &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5867362#" title="Securing Trademark Rights: Registration"&gt;register&lt;/a&gt;  it at first, and you would not be able to successfully sue someone for  using a confusingly similar trademark. You might be able to register it  and/or bring a successful lawsuit at a later date, however, assuming  that Internet users at some point come to identify your business name  specifically with your work (i.e., it acquires secondary meaning).  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" name="generic" title="generic"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;  Lastly, a &lt;strong&gt;generic&lt;/strong&gt; name can never receive trademark  protection. A generic name is identical to the product or service to  which it attaches. For instance, calling a business that hosted email  accounts "email" would be a generic name. Keep in mind that a term can  be a generic name for one product or service, but a valid trademark for  another. For instance, "Apple" is a generic name for selling apples,  but a valid trademark for computers, and "Bicycle" is a generic name  for selling bicycles, but a valid trademark for playing cards. Some  geographical terms like "swiss cheese" and "French fries" are also  generic because they are synonymous with the item itself. However, this does  not mean that all geographical names are generic.   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;  Choosing a business name presents a special problem for a  community journalism site or blogger with a regional focus, where using  a geographical or other descriptive term makes intuitive sense. After  some thought, you may decide that the appropriate descriptive name is  more important to you than strong trademark protection. Or, you may  come up with a creative way of using a geographical term in a  distinctive way (e.g., &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" href="http://h2otown.info/" title="http://h2otown.info/" rel="nofollow" target="blank"&gt;h2otown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;).  Be aware also that your descriptive name may obtain secondary meaning  should your site prove an influential and often-visited source of  information -- think, for instance about the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"&gt;.  So, keep in mind that you may start out with a business name that  enjoys little protection under trademark law, but the amount of  protection may grow over time.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5867362#" title="Go to previous page"&gt;‹ Trademark Law and Naming Your Business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5867362#" title="Go to parent page"&gt;up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5867362#" title="Go to next page"&gt;Naming Your Business: Searching for Trademarks of Others ›&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/naming-your-business-choosing-name-capable-trademark-protection"&gt;citmedialaw.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com/"&gt;Posted via web&lt;/a&gt;  from &lt;a href="http://andiskaulins.posterous.com/naming-your-business-choosing-a-name-capable"&gt;Andis Kaulins&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5867362-3344440535301672316?l=www.lawpundit.com%2Fblog%2Flawpundit.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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