Blawg Review #222 on Twombly & the Power of IP Bloggers

Blawg Review #222 was hosted this week by Duncan Bucknell's IP Think Tank -- click here to read it.  The Review is themed around Australian community festivals, which sound much like American community festivals.  Of particular interest, are links to the following IP-related posts:

  • Drug & Device Law and Point of Law posts discussing the Twombly/Iqbal pleading requirements, a subject I have discussed on this blog here and here.  These posts suggest that Twombly-style pleading is spreading to most substantive legal areas, as the Supreme Court required in Iqbal.
     
  • Spicy IP's post highlighting the fact that Managing Intellectual Property magazine named IP bloggers generically as one of the fifty most influential people in IP -- click here for the post.

 

Chicago Connections to Managing IP's Top 50

Managing Intellectual Property published its annual list of the fifty most powerful people in the international IP community (hat tip to Patent Docs for pointing it out).  Click here for the list (subscription or two week free trial sign up required).  There were two honorees with Chicago connections:

These IP luminaries share the honor with Second Life avatars (#1), the PTO's Director John Dudas (#4), the Federal Circuit's Judge Michel (#9), Harry Potter (#14),and  blogger and Google copyright counsel William Patry, of the Patry Copyright Blog.