Monthly Archive for December, 2005

kids eh!

nerdlaw has this little chuckler about kids forging $20 bills. The kids were 10 & 12 years old and so, of course, they are now in the hands of the filth who will have read them their rights prior to a juvenile judge depriving them of lots of pocket money. Continue reading ‘kids eh!’

ID card rebellion in the Lords?

The Register reports that the Tories and Lib-Dems may decouple ID cards from passports. Geeklawyer wishes them well since even he would probably get an ID card if he had to in order to get a new passport. Continue reading ‘ID card rebellion in the Lords?’

Commons resources for lawyers

Lawpundit has a particularly interesting discussion on Commons based legal resources.

Open resources seem to be particularly well suited to the lawyer. Lawyers generate and consume them to a degree exceeding even that of scientists but have to pay hugely to expensive journals to get them. Given the need for up-to-date information it seems justifiable to pay specialist publishers to gather such data. But equally it seems to be the case that if lawyers can form their own resource pool then everyone else would benefit.

all-black trademarks

Geeklawyer is something of a rugger bugger so he’d like to sympathise with the NZ All Blacks failing to get their trademark. Continue reading ‘all-black trademarks’

so what *do* you want to do with that patent?

My God this is patenting feeding frenzy advice to CEO’s is well made.

outsourcing in-house IP

While something of an oxymoron, the outsourcing in-house IP work article from ipupdate also raises, for city & specialist firms, some uncomfortable future prospects. Continue reading ‘outsourcing in-house IP

lesbian trademark

This is the obligatory wierd xmas IP story since Geeklawyer couldn’t find anything Santa related. Continue reading ‘lesbian trademark’

90 days detention case based on a lie.

Ross Anderson, perpetual provider of embarrassing truths, has argued that Charles Clark made bogus arguments based on encryption to justify detention for 90 days without trial. Continue reading ’90 days detention case based on a lie.’

Law society and blawging

Geeklawyer had a slightly perplexing encounter with the Law Society. Blawgs have rolled onto their horizon and some intrepid employee contacted Geeklawyer in relation to an article they were to write. Continue reading ‘Law society and blawging’