Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog : Maryland Intellectual Property Lawyer & Attorney : Brian Wm. Higgins : Serving Baltimore, Columbia, Frederick

     The top 20 law blogs focusing on intellectual property issues, based on “weekly” rankings compiled by Blawgsearch (Justia.com), are shown below. The Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog is ranked 11th (out of a total 183 blogs in the IP category).

 Notes:

• Blawgsearch ranks legal blogs using daily, weekly, monthly, and “all time” traffic and search statistics.
• The list above does not include two blogs ranked by Blawgsearch in the IP category that focus on technology, marketing, and business law rather than IP law.
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     There is so much IP news to talk about these days, it's hard to keep up.  Although a lot of what's going on in the IP world and online blogosphere only indirectly affects Marylanders, it is nontheless still interesting, informative, and often very useful to IP practitioners in this state. So, here is a brief roundup, as it were:

Patent Troll Tracker: the anonymous, often-attacked blogger who runs the Troll Tracker (who are you?!) has an interesting post today called "Patent Troll Sues Fish & Richardson," which describes how a BigLaw lawyer can get into hot water when bitten by the invention bug (I'll be adding Troll Tracker to the blogroll on this blog soon; always an interesting read).

Patently-O: popular, prolific, and not anonymous blogger Dennis Crouch over at long-running Patently-O posted some comments from patent practitioners yesterday, which he collectively entitled "Rule Changes Triage: Dealing with already pending claims prior to November 1." I've already put some of those informative comments to good use.

Recording Industry vs. The People: The good people running the Recording Industry vs. The People blog posted "Jammie Thomas to Appeal!!!" yesterday. For those not following the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) legal blitz (23,000 sued/threatened so far), Ms. Thomas' case was the first to make it through to a trial verdict (she lost), and so the case was watched by many in the industry. See my related post here. The blog is run by veterans Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman over at Vandenberg & Feliu, LLP.

Copyright Office:  The Copyright Office (not the blog) issued an announcement yesterday that should appeal to those thirsty for copyright news. Entitled "Copyright Office Announces Customized Email Subscription Services," it describes an optional email-based news source. Subscribe here. Let's just hope that service is more timely than the announcement, which is shown with an October 2, 2007, date, but my feedreader didn't pick it up (i.e., it wasn't posted on-line) until October 8, 2007.

The Big Lead: Okay, so this site, which I warn you is at times a bit, how should I say this?-salacious, is not an IP blog, but a colleague turned me on to this increasingly-popular sports blog run by two anonymous, self-described "twenty-somethings," and it serves to make a point. As blogs and blogging in general become more and more popular (replacing traditional web sites in many cases), I'm betting that law firms and lawyers, including IP practitioners, will increadingly view this as an opportunity to market a niche practice area, one devoted to legal issues affecting blogs and bloggers. Such a practice area would involve specialty IP issues--copyrights, trademarks, domain disputes, and (to a lesser extent) patents--as well as general areas of the law, like corporate, first amendment, defamation, privacy, and employment law, to name a few.  Hmm, that gives me an idea...

     I'll be back later this week (hopefully, tomorrow) with coverage of last week's flurry of new litigation cases filed in the Federal District Court here in Maryland (all trademark cases). Plus, I have some new patent filing statistics for Maryland.

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