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

• Startup guru Guy Kawasaki has started the Alltop project which categorizes blogs by subject matter and aggregates blog content  for each subject on a single page.  The law Alltop site is excellent, although I would suggest adding the Chicago IP Litigation Blog.  It is like having someone else set up and update feed readers for you.  This is how Alltop describes itself:

We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. We’ve grouped these collections — ”aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the latest five stories from thirty or more sites on a single page — we call this “single-page aggregation.”

• The Patent Appeal Tracer follows patent cases from filing of a Federal Circuit appeal, after many of the regional IP blogs stop following them, until an opinion issues, when Patently-O and others take over.  It is an interesting idea and a well written blog.  As an example of what they do, check out this recent post on the Federal Circuit appeal of Northern District case Ball Aerosol and Specialty Container, Inc. v. Limited Brands, Inc., No. 05 C 3684 (N.D. Ill.) (Der-Yeghiayan, J.) -- click here or here for coverage of the case in the Blog's archives.

[UPDATE]:  The Chicago IP Litigation Blog has been added to Alltop's law page.  Thanks Guy.  Now, if I could just get Kawasakied.

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Here is a patent philosophy issue to mull over:

Are patents worthless to startups?  Guy Kawasaki (marketing guru and the author of the How to Change the World Blog) says they are here.  He suggests that, with the exceptions of biotech, chip design and medical devices, startups generally cannot afford the time or money necessary to litigate, so "the most valuable outcomes of a patent are often impressing your parents and filling up space in your MySpace profile."  Not surprisingly, Guy's post resulted in some very strong negative responses from both patent prosecutors and litigators.  Guy generously posted this well articulated response which identifies that patents have both litigation and non-litigation benefits that all companies should consider, whether startups or well-established Fortune 100s.

Thanks to Rethink(IP): J. Matthew Buchanan, Douglas J. Sorocco, and Stephen M. Nipper for defending the value of patents.

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