Patent & trademark attorney with over 25 years experience in helping protect businesses' trademark & patent rights. (Former @ntxip on you know where)
Tim Ackermann
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So 1) don’t do this (because it’s actively, regularly completely wrong) and
2) if you decide to be a damn fool and use an “AI lawyer” anyway, remember that your chatlogs are not privileged and can be subpoenaed by the opposition (that’s bad, chat)
Discussion of residual goodwill in the context of nonuse.
Tim Ackermann
Alex de Campi
New unauthorized practice of law app just dropped
New episode! Thank god we’re a self-policing profession and @badlawyerpod.bsky.social is running out of conten…oh.
The news shows the extreme risk associated with offloading support or critical functions to an AI chatbot. www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
Today in art law:
"A federal judge has sanctioned four attorneys, canceled a trial, and removed all lawyers from a civil case after discovering that both sides submitted court filings containing legal citations generated by artificial intelligence that did not exist."
TTAB Affirms Reexamination Decision Ordering Cancellation of BAIA Registration for Non-use, Rejects Residual Goodwill Argument
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*Any sufficiently-advanced random silicon-chip that you just threw into the garbage is indistinguishable from awesome handwavey pop science magic
Today in design patents:
D1129250 issued for a concession container.
I'm super confused why there's a law office logo on this.
#DesignPatents
#BruceSterling
Some more breaking local news: Wyland (and his local attorneys) just made good on his threat to file a federal suit over that downtown Dallas whale mural under the 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act.
Also: "Wyland seeks actual damages of not less than $25,000,000."
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Wyland made good on his threat to file a lawsuit over the extinction of Whaling Wall 82, his 1999 mural featuring a dozen humpback whales painted on downtown Dallas parking garage.
Out now: A federal judge is accused of having sex in chambers, failing to supervise clerks, and lying multiple time in an investigation.
Buckle up for the federal judiciary kicking ass at self-policing.
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Meredith Lowry
Eldritch runes carved into the purest sand by the forbidden light.
