Michael W. Shapiro
@mwshapiro.bsky.social
Bloomberg Law
Writing about patent litigation and the Federal Circuit mostly
Writing about patent litigation and the Federal Circuit mostly
Is there an audience on BSky for patent law stories?
My latest on Netflix's motion to hold patent litigation funder AiPi in contempt for its alleged foot dragging in the face of a subpoena. The case spotlights NoVa-based AiPi & about 140 cases it bankrolled:
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netfl...
My latest on Netflix's motion to hold patent litigation funder AiPi in contempt for its alleged foot dragging in the face of a subpoena. The case spotlights NoVa-based AiPi & about 140 cases it bankrolled:
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netfl...
Netflix Urges Court to Hold Litigation Funder in Contempt (2)
Netflix Corp. is seeking sanctions against a Northern Virginia litigation funder, the latest escalation in the streamer’s three-plus-year battle over what it describes as a frivolous patent litigation...
news.bloomberglaw.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Is there an audience on BSky for patent law stories?
My latest on Netflix's motion to hold patent litigation funder AiPi in contempt for its alleged foot dragging in the face of a subpoena. The case spotlights NoVa-based AiPi & about 140 cases it bankrolled:
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netfl...
My latest on Netflix's motion to hold patent litigation funder AiPi in contempt for its alleged foot dragging in the face of a subpoena. The case spotlights NoVa-based AiPi & about 140 cases it bankrolled:
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/netfl...
A patent law bombshell just dropped. Great reporting from my colleagues Jacqueline Thomsen and Ryan Autullo.
Scoop -- Alan Albright, the Texas judge whose court became a magnet for patent litigation and drew criticism from Congress and the Supreme Court over it, is said to be moving from Waco to tech hub Austin. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
Albright, Patent Lawsuit Magnet, Said to Be Shifting to Austin
Judge Alan D Albright of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas is set to leave his one-judge federal courthouse in Waco, Texas, where the former patent litigator attracted so many pa...
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM
A patent law bombshell just dropped. Great reporting from my colleagues Jacqueline Thomsen and Ryan Autullo.
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right of publicity question of the day, lookalikes back in vogue edition
December 4, 2024 at 8:28 PM
right of publicity question of the day, lookalikes back in vogue edition
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Reposting this IP profs starter pack for newcomers. Let me know if you’d like to be added go.bsky.app/EUN2DAN
November 14, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Reposting this IP profs starter pack for newcomers. Let me know if you’d like to be added go.bsky.app/EUN2DAN
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I’m MC Escher and I’m here to say
that I go up stairs in an unusual way!
::confusing beatbox noises::
that I go up stairs in an unusual way!
::confusing beatbox noises::
August 25, 2024 at 4:31 AM
I’m MC Escher and I’m here to say
that I go up stairs in an unusual way!
::confusing beatbox noises::
that I go up stairs in an unusual way!
::confusing beatbox noises::
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*showing up to court in a black robe
Well, one of us is going to have to change, your honor
Well, one of us is going to have to change, your honor
May 20, 2024 at 9:38 PM
*showing up to court in a black robe
Well, one of us is going to have to change, your honor
Well, one of us is going to have to change, your honor
I was ranting about a variation of this recently where her opponent would be Rivers or maybe it’d be a three-person primary between Rivers, Lake, and Alsobrooks
Voted for Angela Alsobrooks today and I really wanted her opponent to be named Angela Brooks.
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
I was ranting about a variation of this recently where her opponent would be Rivers or maybe it’d be a three-person primary between Rivers, Lake, and Alsobrooks
“no flex, zone” Wing Stop ad has replaced cars-4-kids jingle in my nightmares
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
“no flex, zone” Wing Stop ad has replaced cars-4-kids jingle in my nightmares
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April 10, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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I wrote about why Hermès drives rich people so buck wild that two recently filed a federal antitrust suit over not being able to get their hands on a Birkin. (Gift link, free to read!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Are You Legally Entitled to a Birkin?
This is what happens when wealthy shoppers run headlong into actual scarcity.
www.theatlantic.com
April 2, 2024 at 11:44 AM
I wrote about why Hermès drives rich people so buck wild that two recently filed a federal antitrust suit over not being able to get their hands on a Birkin. (Gift link, free to read!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Fed Circuit shot down a design patent application covering a waffle with a waffle-y side and a smooth ("planar") side. The court agreed with a PTO examiner who found that the claimed design was anticipated/predated by the "Belgian Waffle Sandwich Video" posted to YouTube in 2016.
cafc.uscourts.gov
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
The Fed Circuit shot down a design patent application covering a waffle with a waffle-y side and a smooth ("planar") side. The court agreed with a PTO examiner who found that the claimed design was anticipated/predated by the "Belgian Waffle Sandwich Video" posted to YouTube in 2016.
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Tyreece Bauer.
Karan Emery.
Landon Morton.
These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website.
As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future – or a robotic facsimile thereof – built by desecrating its past.
Karan Emery.
Landon Morton.
These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website.
As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future – or a robotic facsimile thereof – built by desecrating its past.
My Robotic Doppelganger Is The Grim Face of Journalism's Future!
As journalism endures catastrophic financial collapse, I watch software seize my long-lost archives, erase my name—or attribute my work to a fake person. PLUS: Evan and I sign on Friday!
foreverwars.ghost.io
March 6, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Tyreece Bauer.
Karan Emery.
Landon Morton.
These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website.
As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future – or a robotic facsimile thereof – built by desecrating its past.
Karan Emery.
Landon Morton.
These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website.
As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future – or a robotic facsimile thereof – built by desecrating its past.
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I see your Who’s Who and raise you a Wikipedia page
March 1, 2024 at 2:17 AM
I see your Who’s Who and raise you a Wikipedia page
Go home bins, you’re drunk!
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Go home bins, you’re drunk!
For people interested in patent litigation, transparency, or (dare I even suggest) both, this order from Judge Wolson, sitting by designation in D. Del. is the order for you:
"Motions to seal judicial records are a big deal."
www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/fi...
"Motions to seal judicial records are a big deal."
www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/fi...
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
For people interested in patent litigation, transparency, or (dare I even suggest) both, this order from Judge Wolson, sitting by designation in D. Del. is the order for you:
"Motions to seal judicial records are a big deal."
www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/fi...
"Motions to seal judicial records are a big deal."
www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/fi...
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D232,115 - issued in 1974 for a design for a "humpty dumpty sheriff toy." #DesignPatents
February 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
D232,115 - issued in 1974 for a design for a "humpty dumpty sheriff toy." #DesignPatents
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I always say that copyright infringement lawsuits aren't for the thin-skinned. Even when you win you have to be braced for headlines saying that you won because you were just singing cliches lol
February 22, 2024 at 3:24 AM
I always say that copyright infringement lawsuits aren't for the thin-skinned. Even when you win you have to be braced for headlines saying that you won because you were just singing cliches lol
I’ll allow it
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
I’ll allow it
To DC metro people. Anyone stayed on an out-of-service yellow line train north from Mt Vernon Sq Sta? What happens to the people who ignore the instructions to de-train?
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
To DC metro people. Anyone stayed on an out-of-service yellow line train north from Mt Vernon Sq Sta? What happens to the people who ignore the instructions to de-train?
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Voicemail to client: Hello client, I am supposed to talk with your financial advisor this morning before your teleconference with them and I wanted to touch base with you first... and I can't figure out how to end a sentence today and wasn't expecting it to go to voicemail. Uhh.. bye.
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
February 14, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Voicemail to client: Hello client, I am supposed to talk with your financial advisor this morning before your teleconference with them and I wanted to touch base with you first... and I can't figure out how to end a sentence today and wasn't expecting it to go to voicemail. Uhh.. bye.
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
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This is a rare example of the #judiciary holding a judge #accountable for misconduct.
Yet I've been appalled by Judge Newman's behavior, I told @bloomberglp.bsky.social ‘s @mwshapiro.bsky.social 👇 news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge...
Yet I've been appalled by Judge Newman's behavior, I told @bloomberglp.bsky.social ‘s @mwshapiro.bsky.social 👇 news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge...
February 9, 2024 at 9:38 PM
This is a rare example of the #judiciary holding a judge #accountable for misconduct.
Yet I've been appalled by Judge Newman's behavior, I told @bloomberglp.bsky.social ‘s @mwshapiro.bsky.social 👇 news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge...
Yet I've been appalled by Judge Newman's behavior, I told @bloomberglp.bsky.social ‘s @mwshapiro.bsky.social 👇 news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge...
Guest appearance by Judge Bencivengo (S.D. Cal.) on a Ct. of App. for the Fed. Circuit panel this morning w/ Moore and Stoll
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Guest appearance by Judge Bencivengo (S.D. Cal.) on a Ct. of App. for the Fed. Circuit panel this morning w/ Moore and Stoll
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After reading an article about the rise of “scammy AI generated book rewrites” in Wired, I looked up whether there was one of my book.
There was. And it is SO much worse than I could have imagined.
There was. And it is SO much worse than I could have imagined.
Someone Used AI To Rewrite My Book. It’s So Much Worse Than I Could Have Imagined.
Amazon is filled with knockoff “summary” books.
screencrush.com
January 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
After reading an article about the rise of “scammy AI generated book rewrites” in Wired, I looked up whether there was one of my book.
There was. And it is SO much worse than I could have imagined.
There was. And it is SO much worse than I could have imagined.