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Hi Friends,

As promised... here is the Conrad Johnson - Jimi Hendrix montage of multimedia, legal education and Google.

As you may know, Conrad runs the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at Columbia Law School. He also plays guitar.

Conrad talks about his Creating Multi-Purpose Content for the Web article on the Jurist site and Jimi Hendrix, while Bernard, Nancy Rapoport and John Palfrey look on.

Like Jimi... Conrad is also a guitar player..

Here is a closer shot :)

Conrad explains that thanks to his article and Google search results, he is now seen as the guitar playing professor.

Conrad's Jurist article ranks high in the Google world for Conrad Johnson Jimi Hendrix :)

Check out Columbia's Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic and their use of technology for tenant rights.

Peace,

Tim

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Hi Friends,

Here are some photos from the Jurist 10th aniversry conference.

Jurist's Bernard Hibbitts opens the conference.

Terry Davis, Secretary General, Council of Europe via Video

Geoffrey Corn makes a point about US prisioner policy, while Jonathan Freiman listens.

ALM's Tony Mauro. He did not know who Bruce was planning on selling ALM to.

Ethan Katsh and Bernard talk while drinking iced tea.

Falcon and prey.

... more photos later.... including Conrad Johnson playing Guitar :)

Peace,

Tim

:: Beautiful Day, All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2

If you've never heard of ConnectU, you are not alone. In a case of Ivy League intringue, ConnectU filed suit against Facebook for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets, among other charges. The story goes that ConnectU, formerly known as the Harvard Connection, had engaged Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg to complete computer programming and database definitions for the Harvard Connection website. Instead, Zuckerberg allegedly takes the code and trade secrets from the Harvard Connection to launch Facebook, a competing website.

Here's my favorite line from the Complaint: "With respect to Internet websites, the first to enter a market has a substantial advantage." So, how much of a lead in launch time did Facebook have over ConnectU? Facebook launched on February 4, 2004 and the ConnectU website launched on May 21, 2004. So, it only takes 107 days to build such a substantial advantage that your competitors are sent packing their bags and closing shop. Right.

Read the ConnectU Inc. v. Facebook Inc. et al. Complaint

Additional Resources:

• ConnectU, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc. et al. Filed on March 28, 2007 in the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. From Justia Federal Court Filings.
• The Facebook, Inc. v. ConnectU, LLC et al. Filed on March 9, 2007 in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. From Justia Federal Court Filings.
• TheFaceBook v. ConnectU Register of Actions/Docket. From the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.

UPDATE: Looks like the USPTO is working on fixing the ability to have permanent links and bookmarks to individual patents.

Hi Friends,

Here is some interesting news... the United State Patent and Trademark Office has broken all of the static URLs of links to patents. In fact you can not even get a new static URL to link or bookmark to as each URL is now tied to browser session. Erik Heels has a post on this here and what you can do communicate with the USPTO.

Peace,

Tim

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