
We take a break from blogging around this time every year. We're starting early this year, since news has been a bit slow lately and Nate has a trial this week. See you in a couple of weeks!
We take a break from blogging around this time every year. We're starting early this year, since news has been a bit slow lately and Nate has a trial this week. See you in a couple of weeks!
Blogging about legal topics as an attorney can be tough. We at IP/DE post very frequently for a legal blog written by active, practicing attorneys, and I've occasionally been asked by other attorneys how it's going. I thought I'd offer some thoughts on legal blogging here at IP/DE, after 5 years of it, and about the successes and challenges we've faced.
(This was originally part of our Celebrating 5 Years post, but it was honestly kind of a buzz kill. So I followed my wife's wise advice to "split that part into its own post and add a sad clown face.")
IP/DE started as a personal project during the initial …
Happy birthday to us! Believe it or not, IP/DE launched on May 25, 2020, so as of Sunday, this blog will be 5 years old.
Many many thanks to all of our contributors—both to our authors (Nate, Emily, and Lindsey, and former writers Jeff Castellano and David Fry) and to all of those in the community who have sent in post ideas and other thoughts over the last five years. We couldn't have done it without you!
As we discuss in today's post about the state of IP/DE, we hope to keep it up!
Here at IP/DE, we are big fans of generative AI. We've repeatedly written about AI cases, and I've been involved with speaking and writing about AI issues since 2018. We've also been using AI to create images for our posts for quite a while now, with varying levels of success.
That said, like everyone else, we're annoyed by the amount of AI-generated slop on the internet these days. The proportion of new original content seems to be rapidly shrinking, and eventually we'll be left with tiny little islands of actual material generated by living people with real feelings and experiences …
Remember that this Friday, April 18, is a court holiday. For Delaware counsel in particular, it's worth considering whether that may impact any case deadlines.
Given the upcoming holiday, and that there is typically lighter-than-usual activity in those weeks, we're taking this week off from the blog. See you next week!
Happy Thanksgiving! Don't forget that both Thursday and Friday of this week are court holidays.
There haven't been a lot of Court orders and opinions in the last week or so, and we've been running a bit short on topics (we're always open to suggestions). Now seems like a good time for a blog break. See you next week!
We'll be taking a brief blog intermission, until next week when I’m back from my current travel. See you then!
About a month ago we put the blog on hold for our storm of impending trials. Some of those ultimately resolved or moved, and we still have a couple coming up in the next five weeks. But, for now, we're starting the blog up again.
We have a back log of interesting things to address—starting with a post today about Judge Hall's views on summary judgment ranking and page limits. Enjoy!
We here at IP/DE are all practicing attorneys. We try to keep up with around one post per day, but sometimes we have to hang up the gone fishin' sign.
This is one of those times. We have a two-week-long patent trial starting next week, two simultaneous one-week trials shortly thereafter, and we're also spinning up on pretrial disclosures for yet another after that. It's funny how they seem to come all at once.
In short, it's time to call it for now. Assuming we survive—see you soon!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all! We'll be taking a break from posts for a bit as, historically, activity has been slow for the week between Christmas and New Year's. We'll see you in 2024!