Today is Pi Day 2008.  Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535… Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th at 1:59 p.m.  (*As noted in the comments, this only works if you write the […]

Antitrust Review has Blawg Review #149 up and steaming, including “what is undoubtedly the greatest four paragraphs to ever appear in a newspaper.”  This review is chock full of great posts — more than can be absorbed in one sitting. We enjoyed  the Drug and Device Law Blog’s (lengthy) review the FDA’s “new draft guidelines that […]

Brett Trout at BlawgIT has posted the Patent Meme after noticing that patent attorneys are the epitome of sex appeal, with thousands of bloggers fawning over patents and the like. Started as an “If only I could have a link to all the important patent law blogs in one place,” Brett has compiled a list […]

Litigator/Lobbyist Dan Hull at What About Clients? posted Blawg Review #145 this week.  The review, entitled VENI, VIDI, VICI :  Super Bowl Blawg Review, features everything from the phenonmenology of political correctness to where do judges come from? We especially enjoyed J. Craig Williams piece on the need for cultural literacy (But sorry about that 20/700 […]

A law blog on intellectual property worth noting is the IP Thinktank Blog by Duncan Bucknell, an independent IP consultant.  Hailing from Victoria, Australia, IP Thinktank provides one of the best round-ups of IP law from across the globe.  This is a very thorough, well-laid out blog that provides good insight into strategic lifecycle management for […]

Blawg Review #138 is up at de novo for Human Rights Day. In a serious vein, this week brought the oral arguments in the Boumediene case in which Guantanamo inmates challenge their detention. The Petitioners in these cases have all have been confined at Guantanamo for almost six years, yet (apparently) not one has ever […]

Robert J. Ambrogi at Legal Blog Watch reports on the strange unfolding of a spat between lawyer Raymond Niro, co-founder of Chicago plaintiffs’ IP firm Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, and the anonymous author of the blog Patent Troll Tracker. In an article in IP Law & Business, Niro offered $5,000 “to anyone that can […]

Editors of the ABA Journal today announced they have selected Patent Baristas as one of the top 100 best websites by lawyers, for lawyers, as selected from their directory of more than 1,500 blawgs in dozens of categories. The Journal is now asking lawyers to vote on their favorites in each of the Blawg 100’s […]