Since the advent of iPhone applications in July, 2008 over 134,000 iPhone applications have become available at the Apple App Store. Over 3 billion of such applications for news, information, entertainment, and more have been downloaded by iPhone users. With ESPN, The New York Times, Facebook, Li ...

What happens when: (a) a state attorney general charges that the officers of a financial institution are garden variety fraudsters, while (b) a federal agency whose avowed purpose is to protect the investing public decides that insufficient evidence exists to prove that said officers v ...

Wired Magazine is reporting that the Judicial Conference of the United States, the body that develops policy for federal courts in that country, has proposed new model jury instructions that explicitly ban the use of applications like Facebook and Twitter: “U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson o ...

Perhaps I should address Paul Ryan's shadow budget, proposed on behalf of the House Republicans (although in public they are keeping as far away from it as they can).To see the details, check out the first 4 pages of this CBO letter scoring it.Key features, with my reaction to them, are as follows:1 ...

From USCIS: Some of you might be interested in the revised form N-648, Certification of Medical Exemption. This link will take you to all 6 documents below: http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=USCIS-2008-0021 Federal Register notice Draft revised N-648 instructions Draft ...

Kirby Morgan Dive Systems v. Hydrospace Ltd. et al, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9657 (C.D. Cal., 2010) Plaintiff entered into a distribution agreement with Defendant wherein defendant would promote, market, and sell Plaintiff’s products in the Brittish Isles and Defendant would not participate in th ...

Judge Vaughn Walker, the presiding judge in the trial over California’s Prop 8, has been outed by the San Francisco Chronicle.  “The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S ...

The recent Federal Court case of Sanders v. Smart & Biggar Intellectual Property and Technology Law is a good example of the difference that well prepared evidence can make.  The Trademarks Opposition Board expunged the applicant’s trade-mark, UGGLY BOOTS pursuant to section 45 of the Trade-marks Ac ...

EON Corp. IP Holdings, LLC v. Sensus USA Inc., 2010 WL 346218(E.D.Tex. Jan 21, 2010) (NO. 6:09-CV-116) Judge: John Love Holding: Motion to Compel Testimony/Strike Infringement Contentions DENIED without prejudice; Motion for Protective Order DENIED; Infringement contentions ordered supplemented. Thi ...

Winter conditions can make travel along Arkansas roads dangerous. The Arkansas Highway Department recommends that motorists stay off Arkansas roads during ice and snow storms. However, sometimes that is not an option for some people. The following winter driving tips were listed on the Department' ...