90% of lawyers are business lawyers

This is a common phrase from my contracts professor. Basically contract lawyers are the pains who make you click the accept box on iTunes every two weeks. They analyze if a contract is valid and if a contract is breached what are the remedies that can be made on that contract. As far as this connects with Patents it becomes a very easy comparison. A patent can be licensed to other people, used in a business, or simply the possession of someone that cannot be broken. As someone who wants to do patent litigation a lot of my job will be making settlements when someone breaches one of my clients patents or my client breaches a patent.

If you are someone who is really good at litigating and making remedies you will always have a job and you will always be someones first call. For example a litigator will say yes I won a case, but only get 1 million dollars when in reality they could have had 5 million dollars. One million is a win but your client will not be satisfied with the outcome. If you are the guy who always makes the proper remedy in a legal team your job will always be there to negotiate and litigate these positive results.

Patent #504038 zipper

Joe

Patenting a Page Turn

First off sorry for not posting for a couple of days Legal Research is was getting the best of me. Legal research is like googling something, but instead of a list of 20 things. You get 10,000 courts cases, statutes, treatises, and secondary sources.

Apple is all powerful.  Today a friend put me onto this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/16/tech/innovation/apple-page-turn-patent/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Apple is something we rely on delay. My only Apple product is my iPhone 5, which is attached to me more so then my keys and my wallet. However, some of these patents to me seem like they are simply throwing their power around unnecessarily. Is someone going to buy an iPad over a Kindle or Nook because of this thrilling page turning technology. I understand they are doing the best to make it seem like you reading and actual book and it might be a psychological trigger for those to keep reading. This however does not seem like something that should be patentable to me  

Patent 1 - Traction Wheel

Motivation of the Defendant...

...intentionally to take advantage of the benefit of the state. This is a definition for purposeful availment that we came up with in Civ Pro class today. For the rest of the week I am going to discuss a different class every day. Civil Procedure is one of my top 6 favorite classes, but it is probably the most beneficial case for my future since I think I am leaning towards litigation. In class we learn the Federal rules that need to be followed in order for a case with the proper claims, towards the proper people, in the proper venue can correctly happen.

It does not sound that exciting but for me it is exciting especially since half of the course is like a giant Sudoku  Yes the numbers do go past the number 9 but a lot of the rules just simply need to be interpreted properly. The other half of the course has a very clear cut rule, but it takes a lot of interpretation and oral argument to determine how that rule should be used.

Patent #821393 Airplane

Joe Conti

Purpose:

Why did I decided to start this blog, on a busy week 9 days before Thanksgiving in the middle of my first semester of law school? I will answer this logically and frankly as that is the way I have learned to write over my first two and a half months of law school. First, this is an awesome outlet for me to scrutinize my very own grammar as I edit my posts. Grammar is a weakness of mine due to my scientific background. Second, a very successful alumni of my law school told me it was a fairly impressing thing to do to show a passion in patent law in this current 2012 job market. I believed him. Third, it will allow me to share ideas about this profession and insights about law schools with those around me who have no idea what a law student or patent lawyer does or deals with on a regular basis. I will update people about current patent issues along with balancing a passion for patent law with all of the other required classes during my time in law school. I will analyze current job prospects for all lawyers and different events and social issues going on in the patent law and law school world.
I hope everyone enjoys reading this blog as it is something that I formerly thought to be fairly corny, but now I find myself writing when I do not have the time to do so. Do not mind my grammar mistakes it is the first reason I am writing this blog.

Patent # 395,782-  Computer

Joe Conti