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Those awaiting a legitimate method to duplicate DVDs for personal use will likely have to wait even longer, perhaps forever, after RealNetworks tossed in the white towel and abandoned its litigation on the matter.

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An Italian court had convicted three Google employees over an offensive video that was uploaded to the company's video service, despite the fact that none of the men had anything to do with the video's production. Google called the ruling "astonishing" a

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There's a wide disconnect these days between legal education and law practice. You'll hear a lot of discussion about it especially among practicing lawyers. Anayat Durrani's Becoming a Law Professor Part 2 is mighty interesting reading. I read the articl

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Scott Jaschik's "Goofing Off in Law School" in Inside HIgherEd News documents what many of us had only suspected - that there is a marked tendency for third-year law students to slack off in that third year of law school. Not that any of us at Between La

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Professor Jim Maule at the Mauled Again blog continues to make me wish that I could have taken a class with him. That might be the highest compliment I can give a law professor blog. There's been a recent brouhaha in legal education after a law professor

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The Yale Law Journal is looking for submissions on topics both contentious and suitable to thorough and engaging discussion. If you have something in mind you'd better get a move on the deadline is August 1. While that bit of information is interesting i

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A fascinating result of court decisions being published on the Internet and made freely available is that many people other than lawyers are reading and analyzing court decisions in some cases more rigorously and insightfully than some lawyers. In other

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Well that's the title of yet another article I came across -- this time in The Motley Fool -- that intentionally or unintentionally spreads lies untruths and disinformation about the patent system. I'm shocked and outraged. Think of the possible effect o

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Dr. Nathan P. Myhrvold's recent testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on patent reform makes a strong case for the rights of small inventors and businesses in the patent arena. Coming from a now-wealthy man who could easily join the forces of big busi

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Well well well. After calling for "patent reform" and denouncing those who license patents without actually making a product it seems Microsoft is hedging its bets. At least that's how it appears to a cynic like me. Oh I get it. This is different. They a

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Dennis Crouch asks why so many patents seem indecipherable and what can be done about it? Good questions indeed. Always willing to speak the truth however unpleasant it may be I'm here to provide my answers. In reality this is just a variation on the anc

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Yet another article on "Patent Reform" today. To listen to some of these guys you'd think the Microsofts Intels Googles and IBMs of the world are at risk of being bankrupted by small patent holders. In case you missed it the first time let's try this aga