Chicago IP Attorney & Lawyer : R. David Donoghue : Chicago IP Litigation Blog

Here are several items that did not necessarily warrant a separate post, but are worth some attention:

• Chicago blogger Evan Brown of Internet Cases recently participated in episode 16 of the This Week in the Law podcast with law blog luminaries Denise Howell (the host), Nicole Black, Marty Schwimmer and Ernie Svenson -- click here for Brown's post and a link to the podcast. Their lively discussion included numerous IP topics including: 
  • DMCA anticircumvention provisions;
  • ediscovery; and
  • the Viacom v. Google discovery issues (the parties ultimately agreed that the compelled user data could be produced anonymously).
    
• Mike Atkins did a great series of post comparing the benefits of state and federal trademark registration -- click here and here for the posts.  These posts are a great primer, if you want to understand the differences between and trade offs for state versus federal registration.
  
• The John Marshall Law School has been included in the PTO's new Law School Clinic Program.  Beginning this fall, second and third year John Marshall students will represent inventors in actual PTO proceedings.  This is a great opportunity for both the students and the inventors.  Click here for John Marshall's press release about the new program.

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On Wednesday, August 13 at noon CT, I am giving a teleseminar with Evan Brown (a fellow Chicagoan who writes the insightful Internet Cases blog) and Professor Eric Goldman (who writes the excellent Technology & Marketing Law Blog) discussing the current state of the Communication Decency Act's Good Samaritan clause.  The seminar will focus on, among other things, the Roommates decision in the Ninth Circuit -- click here for Goldman's posts on the case -- and the Craigslist decision from the Seventh Circuit (upholding a Judge St. Eve opinion) -- click here for the Blog's posts about that case and here for Brown's posts. 

Click here for ALI-ABA's web brochure about the seminar.  It promises to be an interesting discussion with lively debate.  And ALI-ABA has generously offered a $30 discount off of the seminar's $149 cost for Blog readers that use this code:  TSPV02DD.

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One of our personal favorites, Evan Brown's InternetCases, provides timely analysis of recent cases from the perspective of a practicing attorney.  In the last week alone, Mr. Brown has posted analysis of a website copyright infringement case decided by the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, a cyber-stalking decision from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and a case applying the Rule Against Perpetuities to a software distribution agreement.

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I will be speaking with the Chicago Bar Association's Cyberlaw & Data Privacy Committee tomorrow, Tuesday, February 19 at noon.  My presentation is titled:  “Northern District of Illinois Cyberlaw Trends."  If you are in Chicago tomorrow, please join us.  The event is being held at the Chicago Bar Association building, 321 S. Plymouth.  If you cannot make it, I will post the slides later this week and I understand that the Chicago Bar Association will post it as a podcast.  It will not be the same as what I hope will be a highly interactive presentation, but I will post the slides later this week and a link to the podcast when it is available.

Thanks again to Evan Brown and his Internet Cases blog for the opportunity.

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I am throwing caution to the wind* and giving a presentation titled Northern District Cyberlaw Trends to the Chicago Bar Association's Cyberlaw & Data Privacy Committee, thanks to a request from Evan Brown on his excellent Internet Cases blog.  I am going to discuss some of the major Northern District cyberlaw cases and opinions from 2007, including the Craigslist case, and discuss trends that can be seen from them. 

If you are available February 19 at noon, join us at the Chicago Bar Association building 321 S. Plymouth.  If you cannot make it, I will post about the content of my presentation after the 19th.

*  Washington DC attorney Eric J. Menhart has filed a trademark application for the use of cyberlaw in connection with legal services.  Not surprisingly, the blogs have a lot to say about it.  Check out Blawg IT, Electronic Frontier Foundation and GrokLaw. 

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