Two new blogs are on the scene for keeping pace with biotechnology. OnBioVC OnBioVC, a new blog by veteran blogger Adam Rubenstein, is listed as “Your Source for BioScience Venture Capital Data.”  Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, OnBioVC provides timely coverage and comprehensive analysis of global bioscience venture capital investment activity. Although heavy on the financial […]

In a search for the best of 2008 in the legal blogospshere, Blawg Review, is looking for which of the year’s 51 host presentations should be named the Blawg Review of the Year 2008.  We hosted Blawg Review #161 on Patent Baristas, the Memorial Day Edition of Blawg Review. There were many presentations this past […]

It’s been a wild ride of a year and it is with mixed emotions that we bring 2008 to a close.  With 228 posts and 6 million hits, a lot has gone into Patent Baristas and I hope this only improves next year. To wrap up the blogging year, I thought I’d just mention a […]

The Center for American and International Law is holding its 46th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law (CAILAW) at its headquarters in Plano on November 10-11, 2008. From 3:30pm-4:15pm on November 10, I will be part of a law blogger panel “All the News That’s Fit to Blawg,” which asks whether or not bloggers are […]

Blawg Review #17 is up on Securing Innovation, the business blog of IP.com Inc. SInce September 29th is Día del Inventor in Argentina, this week’s Review is in commemoration of Hungarian inventor Laszlo Biro. Biro brought us the ballpoint pen 70 years ago this summer (designed in his garage in Buenos Aires). After obtaining the […]

Gene Quinn, Jr., the force behind the Patent Briefs at the Practicing Law Institute, has struck out in a new venture.  Gene has now brought us a new patent blog, PatentFools.com.  PatentFools is described thusly: The point of PatentFools is to try and identify wrongs, articulate positions, influence decision-makers and have some fun saving the […]

In a bit of shameless self-promotion, we find that the Patent Baristas were ranked (once again!) in the 2008 Edition of Chambers and Partners, a guide to the legal profession that rates attorneys and their practices based upon peer and client review. Chambers USA touts the Intellectual Property Department as known for their “exceptional” attention […]

Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog, fulfilled her promise to put forth “one of the best [Blawg Review]’s ever.”  She set out a massive, link-filled review that will last all week. Pynchon states that if intellectual property had a theme song it would have to be “Like a Virgin.” Why? Because IP is all […]