I may need to take this quote to heart.

"Think not of the books you've bought as a 'to be read' pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood." - Luc van Donkersgoed, as quoted at https://www.instagram.com/p/CnBV6PqPxZm/

The TBR pile is dead! Long live the #BookCellar!

#bookstodon #quotes

US News Law School rankings are flawed and exert a pernicious influence on #legaled, but we must navigate them. With 12 schools opting out so far (and more considering it), it's a fraught time for those of us with ballots. Here, I share my thoughts on the specific issues confronting those of us (1) who can vote in specialty rankings, (2) who object to US News rankings but (3) whose schools continue to participate.

#lawprofs #lawfedi #lawschool

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/clinic_prof/2022/11/difficult-decisions-on-voting-in-us-news-rankings-of-clinical-programs.html

What are the biggest developments/trends/issues in your area of law right now?

I'll start. For #DesignPatents, I'd day:

1. The NDIL #ScheduleA debacle

2. The #Greciaverse

a) Related: All the ridiculous GUI DPs

b) Related: How the do we interpret broken line claims?

3. The USPTO gearing up to "interpret" the phrase "for an article of manufacture" out of 35 U.S.C. § 171.

4. The utter mess that is the Federal Circuit's body of case law on ornamentality

#LawProfs #IPLawProfs #LawFedi

Interesting how law schools are opting out of USNews in roughly USNews rank order. Wonder when we'll get our first T2 school announcement. Or our first defiant opt-in.

#LegalEd #USNews #rankings