Ugh this submission season is rough! I'm trying to distract myself from my zero offers
07.03.2026 00:08
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Ugh this submission season is rough! I'm trying to distract myself from my zero offers
NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible.
Pro se defendant flagged the errors.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
That's a fun one. Enjoy!
Listening to La Légende du Roi Arthur
www.oyez.org/cases/1999/9...
And watching color analysis draping videos on YouTube
I'm reading Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Happy weekend, friends! What are we reading, watching, listening to, or otherwise doing for fun (or distraction)?
icee & slush puppie are litigating over trademark infringement
might get messyyyy
www.bloomberglaw.com/document/XM4...
Gotta think of a good design law "Easter egg" to put in my Property midterm. Last year, it was a cocktail shaker shaped like a penguin.
image says AI-generated art can't be copyrighted
i've seen this kind of headline a few times and just want to note that it's...not correct. SCOTUS declined to hear an odd case that insisted that an AI had *created* a work of art. it wanted the copyright to go *to the AI.*
Congratulations!
Please contribute information to the 2026 law school entry level hiring report. prawfsblawg.com/lawsky-entry...
In my forthcoming book, I discuss how we had elections during the Civil War. The Civil War.
Hundreds of former judges sign on to an amicus explaining the obvious, namely that unexplained shadow docket orders can't create binding precedent. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25....
(Because of course they can't. What's the ratio decidendi??)
Congratulations!
Postscript:
N.B. - The Examining Attorney accepted OpenAI's claim of acquired distinctiveness, and so the application will proceed to publication for opposition.
So, the real issue before the Board was inherent distinctiveness. Perhaps the Board should have said that.
little girl initially denied a passport in the UK because her name is khaleesi, which the passport office said is "trademarked by warner brothers" 🤨
en.newsner.com/news/little-...
Like...canons of design patent claim construction?
Ugh, sorry. Very clearly not what you meant
No. It means they don't have a registration (yet)
What metrics? The factors are pretty favorable if you have a successful product
To me, the biggest surprise is that they're not claiming acquired distinctively
"Why didn't OpenAI claim acquired distinctiveness?"
I would also like to know.
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TTAB Deems CHATGPT Merely Descriptive of Chatbot Software
thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/03/ttab...
This, but for scholarly writing:
"Censoring Courses Isn’t the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway"
www.chronicle.com/article/cens...
(Censorship laws rarely flatly ban speech. They routinely achieve their censorship through less direct or explicit means) 🤐