* Having packed the DOJ with lawyers who have represented Big Content, much to the chagrin of fair-use advocates, President Obama’s pick for head of the Patent & Trademark Office will be a little more palatable to the tech community. Dave Kappos, IBM’s head of IP Law, has been out front on a number of progressive measures, including peer-to-patent, and turning battleship IBM toward embracing open source. Kappos earned his law degree while working at IBM as an engineer.
Four more, after the jump.
* Williams & Connolly’s Dangerous Communications Device won the sixth annual Banding Together: The Battle of the Law Firm Bands. Other entrants in the charity event included bands from Latham & Watkins and Sutherland.
* Not only did Facebook lose a suit against a German doppelganger (we were going to go with look alike, but considering the Teutonic connection…), but the judge criticized the company and its lawyers for shoddy preparation and making “too many unfounded guesses instead of presenting hard facts that prove [the clone] stole source code.” Anyone know who counsel was?
* Billionaire Len Blavatnik is suing JPMorgan Chase, accusing the bank of mismanaging an investment account that held about $1 billion in assets owned by Blavatnik’s industrial holding company, Access Industries. Blavatnik is using Quinn Emanuel; JPMC is using Paul Weiss.
* The Ninth Circuit went and revised its opinion in Barnes v Yahoo, a case we wrote about because one of Yahoo’s lawyers on the brief was fired and filed an employment-discrimination suit that turned up all sorts of messes.
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