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Fartman v. Pull My Finger Fred

I've heard people talk about crappy software patents, but what about copyrights?

Plaintiff alleges that "Fartman" infringes a copyright on protectable expression embodied in a plush toy known as "Pull My Finger Fred."

[bIPlog at boalt.org: The Sweet Smell of the Public Domain]

Gobble gobble

The USPTO with a kid's page re: "Gobble up some of these a-maize-ing patents and trademarks!"

Patents I'm thankful I didn't write #1

U.S. Patent No. 6,805,663 - Method of shared erotic experience and facilities for same
Its kind of like sex in an office cubicle, but with a hot tub, and the stapler...ain't a stapler. Yikes.
Actually, people will pay for this? In college we'd get pissed at our one roommate for it. We'd have paid to NOT have him "share the experience" from the other room.

Note to self

Don't use this tactic in your future extortion plans:

"You will pay me $17 million dollars, or my barrage of sexually explicit patents applications will continue!"

Apparently, it doesn't work in Maryland.

IP attorney in trouble with the law...

"...an intellectual property associate at Kirkland & Ellis, has been arrested by Suffolk police on charges stemming from an attempted tryst with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl..." 

Is that considered inducement?

put it on a t-shirt

get this one for the patent lawyer in your life who's putting in 80 hour weeks after spending 5 years studying engineering in college and 3 years in law school. [via http://www.lawschoolstuff.com/]

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