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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704682604575368783687129488.htmlquote:But last week the patent office snuffed out the promise of federal recognition. On Tuesday, after questions about the new pot-trademark category from a Wall Street Journal reporter, a patent-office spokesman said the office planned to remove the new pot classification by week's end, and the category is now off the website. Dammit Baruch Obamawitz you ruin everything!
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 20:57 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 05:50 |
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i put in a request for information under 37 CFR 1.166 and they sent me weed so we had to classify it but then it got smoked so we removed the classification hth (ps: I work on the patent side not the trademark side don't blame me; I don't know anything about what goes on on the trademark side) e: 1.166 is more applicable to this dumb joke
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 21:18 |
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Anyone able to get the 2011 Vault profiles that came out today?
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 21:34 |
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Mookie posted:Anyone able to get the 2011 Vault profiles that came out today? Yep, which one do you want?
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 21:43 |
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entris posted:I disagree with your characterization that the acquisition of pirated property is equivalent to hard work, unless you mean the hard work of the original creator of the property. law school: no jobs, die alone and humorless
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 21:58 |
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OK animal law sucks and is stupid why am I the SALDF president and doing a grant project on animal law again? EDIT: Oh yeah because I can't say no to anything because I'm obsessively adding things to my resume despite the fact that nothing will overcome my graduating from a TTT
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 22:48 |
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Mookie posted:Anyone able to get the 2011 Vault profiles that came out today? Mostly because it was not enough work to require the help of freelance writers
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 23:12 |
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Petey posted:law school: no jobs, die alone and humorless I think a lot of people treat piracy as though it isn't wrong, but it is, and I try to point that out. And the way in which I phrased my response was overly verbose on purpose because I was trying to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 23:43 |
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entris posted:I think a lot of people treat piracy as though it isn't wrong, but it is, and I try to point that out. media pirates are just underdogs in a distributional struggle
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 23:45 |
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evilweasel posted:gotta say I enjoyed rolling into a social security appeal with another summer and an actual associate, in suits and with reams of documents for cases that people usually don't have any sort of lawyer to help them with Do you mean appeal as in the ALJ hearing or appeal as in appeals council review? (or federal district court ) PS doing Social Security law sucks and there's a reason why you don't have to be a lawyer to represent people there
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 23:53 |
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The Arsteia posted:media pirates are just underdogs in a distributional struggle Since this is the law goons thread, I suspect that most people here would agree that people shouldn't unilaterally break a law they disagree with. I'm attacking piracy on rule of law grounds, rather than economic grounds (although I don't concede economic criticisms).
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# ? Jul 20, 2010 23:55 |
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I approach it from the fact that the only people who care if I download their song instead of pay for it are people who don't need any more money so gently caress them. And I whole-heartedly support the breaking of laws en-masse if enough people disagree with them. I guess that makes me a terrible lawyer but then again I'm not a loving lawyer anyway because I don't have a job so who gives a loving poo poo! e: VVV I think possession of marijuana is this generation's possession of marijuana Defleshed fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jul 21, 2010 |
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entris posted:Since this is the law goons thread, I suspect that most people here would agree that people shouldn't unilaterally break a law they disagree with. I'm attacking piracy on rule of law grounds, rather than economic grounds (although I don't concede economic criticisms). I saw a headline somewhere that suggested piracy was this generation's possession of marijuana -- yes, it's a crime, but one that isn't perceived as particularly malevolent. There may be truth to that. I think there's a point, though, where even those of us who are risk-averse have to enter into a balancing act between things that are a crime and behaviors we're going to do regardless of criminality. Under Michigan law, seduction of an unmarried woman is a felony. While I understand "it is a crime, therefore I will not" as a philosophy, an examination of any given jurisdiction's penal code is likely to turn up some absurd results for the legal absolutist.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 00:22 |
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Defleshed posted:e: VVV I think possession of marijuana is this generation's possession of marijuana I think this is an exact quote of me from some pot thread a few months ago.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 00:47 |
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GamingHyena posted:Do you mean appeal as in the ALJ hearing or appeal as in appeals council review? (or federal district court ) ALJ, and I don't actually want to do it it's just neat being a fake lawyer even though we still need to be clear we're not admitted.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 00:47 |
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Alaemon posted:I saw a headline somewhere that suggested piracy was this generation's possession of marijuana -- yes, it's a crime, but one that isn't perceived as particularly malevolent. There may be truth to that. I think possession of marijuana is this generation's possession of marijuana, seeing as how it is still illegal. I think we can make colorable legal arguments for the repeal of many of the "absurd" older laws - eiither right to privacy or some other conlaw argument for invalidation. I don't think we can make a reasonable argument for the repeal of intellectual property law so that piracy suddenly becomes ok. There's a big difference between legal absolutism and saying that it's wrong to steal other people's property- which is exactly what piracy is, despite young peoples' strange inchoate objections to the contrary.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 00:56 |
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entris posted:I think possession of marijuana is this generation's possession of marijuana, seeing as how it is still illegal. be coo' man don't be dumping all this crazy legal talk here we just getting some music
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 01:04 |
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I applied to become a TestMasters instructor this semester, good idea or bad idea? I'm a little worried how I can pull this off with job searching (lol), possible journal, and coursework. On the other hand it pays so well it should be able to cover
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 01:13 |
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everyone in CA better vote yes on Prop 19
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 01:26 |
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Phil Moscowitz posted:everyone in CA better vote yes on Prop 19 What does it do?
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 01:28 |
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entris posted:What does it do? legalize weed bitch
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 01:29 |
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entris posted:I think possession of marijuana is this generation's possession of marijuana, seeing as how it is still illegal. I think this is an exact quote of me from some pot thread a few months ago.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 01:32 |
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Mookie posted:Anyone able to get the 2011 Vault profiles that came out today? So did your firm move up, down, or stay the same?
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 01:34 |
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The Arsteia posted:legalize weed bitch This needs to pass so badly. I'm not sure if I'd have the exact same opinion for every state in the Union, but here in CA we need money desperately.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 02:30 |
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gently caress the police, gently caress the screws, gently caress big pharma, vote YES on 19
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 02:32 |
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entris posted:There's a big difference between legal absolutism and saying that it's wrong to steal other people's property- which is exactly what piracy is, despite young peoples' strange inchoate objections to the contrary. Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207, 217–18 (1985) posted:[I]nterference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: ... 'an infringer of the copyright.' ...
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 04:41 |
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Defleshed posted:And I whole-heartedly support the breaking of laws en-masse if enough people disagree with them.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 04:47 |
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Ersatz posted:Actually, But he was clearly talking about sympathy towards piracy, which indeed is a problem facing our generation. Captain Morgan was not a good guy! (Neither is his rum, to be fair)
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 13:18 |
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entris posted:I think possession of marijuana is this generation's possession of marijuana, seeing as how it is still illegal.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 13:23 |
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CaptainScraps posted:Not a goddamned bit. But I have preconceived notions. Some transactional work is not adversarial. Other transactional work is ridiculously adversarial. Sometimes the ridiculous describes not the degree of adversariality (technical term) but the fact that being adversarial is ridiculous because the adversarial party will be a division within your client or a sister company that is sort of on the other side of the transaction.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 14:36 |
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I was playing World of Warcraft last night (it is an awesome fantasy world where I actually have some money ok) and someone was talking about Carbolic Smoke Balls in trade chat. I asked, and the guy is a 2L at "Drake"... I thought I had heard of every law school but they keep making more
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 14:45 |
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Ersatz posted:Actually, That's a very good point, I accept that. Piracy isn't simple theft, it's a more complicated form of criminal activity that involves property rights. My point still stands: it's illegal. Ersatz posted:
A lot of people in this country disagreed with George Bush's election and with many of the things that he did during his presidency, and yet we didn't see rioting or civil war - people did not just decide to break the law. There were a few soldiers who refused to go along with the stop-gap business, but very few. The Tea Party folks hate Obama, hate his proposed laws, etc, but they aren't just breaking laws in response. In both cases, Americans turn to the democratic process to fix the problem. Having dissenting citizens just breaking laws is generally a terrible idea for a democratic society. Obviously, there are exceptions to that rule, such as the civil rights movement, but we're not talking about a generation of oppressed young people who are struggling to gain their freedom, we're talking about a bunch of lazy, semi-wealthy young people who don't want to pay for music, movies, and software despite the fact that they have money for housing, electricity, a computer, internet access and probably an mp3 player of some kind. This isn't about civil disobedience in the face of injustice, this is about young people rationalizing their illegal behavior so that they can get free stuff. This is not a reasonable position, this is a childish position. Soothing Vapors posted:you and phil mousekewitz are really repping the "crazy old man" vibe hard in the past few pages I'm 29! Hardly "old man." But this will be my last post on piracy in this thread. entris fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Jul 21, 2010 |
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following the law is for squares
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 14:56 |
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I drove two blocks without my seatbelt today while playing YouTube music through my phone to the car stereo's aux
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 16:24 |
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Jaywalking: horrible crime, or the horriblingest crime?
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 16:28 |
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Here's a question for all you piracy wieners, what if I bought a Talk Talk CD in high school but now it doesn't work because my visor CD case made it all scratched, is it wrong for me to download My Life (not the No Doubt ver.)
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 16:28 |
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hey guys I'm old here are some names of old things for old street cred
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 16:29 |
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The filesharing we're all pretty much talking about isn't criminal, hth.
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# ? Jul 21, 2010 16:30 |
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Adar posted:hey guys I'm old here are some names of old things for old street cred Actually I was playing with GI Joes when Talk Talk was big so I'm pretty much normal aged
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I drove two blocks without my seatbelt today while playing YouTube music through my phone to the car stereo's aux
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