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Prof. @design_law provides a roundup of the top 10 SAD Scheme developments in 2025
By Sarah Fackrell, Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law It’s been a busy year on the Schedule A beat. In reflecting on the year, I’ve put together this quick round-up of ten of the top developments, in (rough)...
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Hello, my name is Smiley...
To the claim that people have the right to stop others from using ubiquitous symbols in the public domain dating back over a thousand years. I call "utter jabberwocky."
see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-oldest-smiley-face-found-hittite-jug-180964177/ #18743YearsOfSmiley #smiley #happyface #smileyface
I presented a newly updated version of my SAD Scheme talk to a group of sophisticated IP practitioners. As usual, none of them had ever heard of it--but they were angry by the time I was done #StopTheSADScheme
Talk slides (new!): https://www.ericgoldman.org/Speeches/sadscheme2024.pdf
Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4381824
When I raed that the plaintiff attorneys in SAD scheme cases can file a serve on defendants via email that look may look like a spam/spoofing/phishing attack ...
I think of this from Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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'Yes', said Arthur, 'yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying `Beware of the Leopard. ` ' "
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/793744-the-first-i-knew-about-it-was-when-a-workman
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