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TAL Takes on Patent Trolls

Hot on the heels of Lodsys threatening Apple’s app developers (and Apple threatening back), NPR’s All Things Considered Team tackles the latest scourge to take advantage of our outmoded legal system: patent trolls. Required listening for all app developers, IP attorneys, and law students who are thinking of jumping in bed with the devil.

As a bonus, Peter Detkin explains that when he popularized the term he was thinking of the mythical Norse monster, not the hunting term.

Via NPR.

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Nick Kam is a member of the California State Bar and a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Half Guilty is an excerpt of a piece of legal scholarship which considers the case of punishing an innocent person for a murder her conjoined twin committed.

He can be reached here.

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