IPBiz: Salt of the earth

Monday, February 07, 2011

Salt of the earth

CBS briefly mentioned events at the SuperBowl, including flub of national anthem. Of IP/self-plagiarism issues, the Snickers ad with Roseann Barr was a rather trivial derivatization of last year's Betty White. Where's 102(f) when we need it.

The CBS news included more basic stuff than SuperBowl fluff. CBS Nightly News on Feb. 7 noted 18 million tons of salt are used in the US per year. CBS focussed on a Cargill mine under Lake Erie, which salt deposit formed 400 million years ago. Cleveland mine produces 3 million tons per year.

Also:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41452174/ns/today-entertainment/

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I'm a patent lawyer located in central New Jersey. I have a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where I studied graphite intercalation compounds at the Center for Materials Research. I worked at Exxon Corporate Research in areas ranging from engine deposits through coal and petroleum to fullerenes. An article that I wrote in The Trademark Reporter, 1994, 84, 379-407 on color trademarks was cited by Supreme Court in Qualitex v. Jacobson, 514 US 159 (1995) and the methodology was adopted in the Capri case in N.D. Ill. An article that I wrote on DNA profiling was cited by the Colorado Supreme Court (Shreck case) and a Florida appellate court (Brim case). I was interviewed by NHK-TV about the Jan-Hendrik Schon affair. I am developing ipABC, an entity that combines rigorous IP analytics with study of business models, to optimize utilization of intellectual property. I can be reached at C8AsF5 at yahoo.com.

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Monday, February 07, 2011

Salt of the earth

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