You may have noticed that my blog was inaccessible all day yesterday. I joined the internet-wide movement to protest SOPA/PIPA, two bills currently being considered in Congress. Other major companies such as Wikipedia and Reddit were a part of the blackout. While I haven’t personally read the text of the bill, WSJ gives an apt description here:
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Happy 2012! I’ve had a wonderful break at home, and have loved being in Chicago with my family. I spent 14 hours straight working on a paper that had a postmark deadline by today, but I got it to the post office at 2pm! I was so happy to get it in! And don’t worry, I’ve got at least a week before the next one is due.

My New Years Eve wasn’t all lawyering. My mom deemed it “family fun food day,” and made artichoke dip, guacamole, and my favorite, homemade cinnamon rolls! They were soooo good!!
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I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas Eve!

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When studying today, I came across an irony contained in one approach of our friends across the pond. In Europe, the European Patent Convention allows patent offices and courts to exclude inventions that offend notions of morality from patenting. The common requirement is demonstrated in the TRIPS Agreement:

Members may exclude from patentability inventions, the prevention within their territory of the commercial exploitation of which is necessary to protect ordre public or morality, including to protect human, animal or plant life or health or to avoid serious prejudice to the environment, provided that such exclusion is not made merely because the exploitation is prohibited by their law. TRIPS Agreement, Art. 27, par. 2

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Happy Thanksgiving 2011! I enjoyed the day in Logan with members of my immediate and extended family. We ran a Turkey Trot in the morning, had an amazing Thanksgiving meal in the midday, then just enjoyed each others’ company for the remainder of the day. It was a great holiday!

Click past the break for some Thanksgiving gems, handpicked for your enjoyment.
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If you were frantically searching for a Halloween costume this past weekend, you may have been one of the many people who hopped on Google for some ideas. If you happened to be looking for tv show theme guidance, you may have seen Brita and I from two years ago when we dressed up as Pam and Jim – we’re on the main results page for the Google search “the office halloween.”

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