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		<title>Sit Your Butt Down, Motion to Dismiss Denied</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/03/04/sit-your-butt-down-motion-to-dismiss-denied</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing saga of apparel warfare, the lawsuit between The North Face and The South Butt continues.  The latest action was the court&#8217;s denial of a motion by The South Butt to dismiss the lawsuit.  Read the court order here.  The Judge in this case is apparently not as amused as I am by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who dat? Or, Attempting to Appropriate a Trademark</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/02/05/who-dat-or-attempting-to-appropriate-a-trademark</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sarahsponte.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl weekend is here with the Saints and the Colts about to face off for the championship!  Parties are planned, chip and dip aisles are all but bare, and the beer is chilling.  Merchandising aficionados are in a frenzy as team apparel flies off the racks and into the hands of eager fans.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clone Lawsuit Alleges Cloning!</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/29/clone-lawsuit-alleges-cloning</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sarahsponte.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the irony.
A Chinese company by the name of Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co is preparing to sue Apple if the iPad enters the Chinese market.  This company &#8211; let&#8217;s call it Shenzhen for brevity &#8211; pre-emptively cloned the iPad and released their cloned version, called the P88, three months prior to the Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Readable Media Guidance From USPTO</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/28/computer-readable-media-guidance-from-uspto</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite some time, the phrase &#8220;computer-readable media&#8221; in software claims has been a buzzword Examiners have latched onto for 101 rejections.  Yesterday, the USPTO released a guidance memo that provides specific language suggested for overcoming or avoiding these rejections.  Interestingly, addition of this suggested language to overcome rejection will not be considered new matter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The North Face Sues The South Butt</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/07/the-north-face-sues-the-south-butt</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2010/01/07/the-north-face-sues-the-south-butt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for Fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sarahsponte.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A popular outdoor product company, The North Face, is suing a student-founded start-up company, The South Butt, for trademark infringement.  The North Face complaint includes arguments for likelihood of confusion.  In response to this argument, IP counsel for The South Butt indicated that the public knows &#8220;the difference between a face and a butt.&#8221;
The South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word to Microsoft &#8211; Pay Up and Cease Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/08/12/word-to-microsoft-pay-up-and-cease-sales</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/08/12/word-to-microsoft-pay-up-and-cease-sales#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas entered a final judgement against Microsoft today, following a jury verdict issued on May 20, 2009.
The suit originated in 2007, when Canadian software firm i4i Ltd sued Microsoft for infringing their U.S. Patent 5,787,499.  The suit alleged that Microsoft knowingly infringed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/08/06/twitter-sued-for-patent-infringement</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/08/06/twitter-sued-for-patent-infringement#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Texas-based company called TechRadium filed suit against Twitter Tuesday, August 4, 2009, in the Southern District of Texas, alleging patent infringement.  TechRadium is a technology company that makes mass notification systems which provide a platform where one message can be sent to multiple recipients over various types of devices.
The complaint alleges that Twitter infringes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TiVo vs. EchoStar Update</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/08/04/tivo-vs-echostar-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2009/08/04/tivo-vs-echostar-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sarahsponte.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The legal battle continues, and it just got more interesting!
The TiVo patent at the center of this controversy is currently embroiled in reexamination proceedings with the USPTO.  Monday, August 3, 2009, the USPTO rejected two of the patent claims in the TiVo patent in a preliminary finding of invalidity.  The rejected claims, claims 31 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarence Thomas &#8211; A Great American Success Story</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2007/10/25/clarence-thomas-a-great-american-success-story</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2007/10/25/clarence-thomas-a-great-american-success-story#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I attended a luncheon featuring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as the keynote speaker. It was an incredible opportunity to hear a sitting Supreme Court justice in person, speaking about the path by which he reached his current position, as well as the role he plays on the current Court. Not only that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SueEasy</title>
		<link>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2007/10/18/sueeasy</link>
		<comments>http://www.sarahsponte.com/2007/10/18/sueeasy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why shop around for a lawyer when they will come to you? Forget flipping through the yellow pages! Just list your case on the new SueEasy website, and before long, lawyers will be calling you, just begging to take your case. Frivolous lawsuits just got easier &#8211; SueEasy in fact.
Read more here
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