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Monday, May 7, 2012

MAD Magazine Helpfully Explains Why "The Avengers" Made $200 Million Opening Weekend

MAD Magazine helpfully explains why "The Avengers" made $200 million in its opening weekend.
Posted by Michael Barclay at 1:35 PM
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Michael Barclay
After working for over 30 years as an intellectual property lawyer, I retired from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in January 2010. I'm now doing some volunteer work at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. Since I spend a fair amount of my day reading intellectual property blogs and humor web sites, I thought I would share the best of each of them on this blog. Views on this blog are my own.
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Interesting Legal Links (Alphabetical Order)

  • Above the Law
  • Daily Journal (subscription)
  • EDTX Federal Court Practice
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • IP Law 360 (subscription)
  • Law.com/The Recorder
  • Patently-O Blog
  • SCOTUSblog
  • Techdirt
  • Technology & Marketing Blog (Eric Goldman)
  • The Trademark Blog
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Volokh Conspiracy

Humor Links (Alphabetical Order)

  • Borowitz Report
  • College Humor
  • Comics - Daily Ink (subscription)
  • Comics - Mercury News
  • Cracked
  • Dave Barry's Blog
  • Drew Curtis' Fark.com
  • FAILblog
  • GeekPress
  • Huffington Post Comedy
  • MetaFilter
  • Political Humor
  • Reddit
  • Sadly, This Is Not The Onion
  • The Onion
  • There, I Fixed It

Resources

  • California State Court Opinions
  • CiteSeer
  • EPO Patent Database
  • Free Patent Tools
  • Free Patents Online
  • Google Patent Search
  • Google Scholar
  • Litigation Database Services
  • PACER Home Page (subscription)
  • Patents - PDF Downloader
  • Patexia (patent lawsuit finder)
  • Pub Med
  • Scirus
  • Social Science Research Network
  • Sumobrain
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • USPTO Patent Searches
  • USPTO Public PAIR
  • Wayback Machine (Internet Archive)
  • Wikipedia

My Amicus Briefs

The following are some amicus briefs I have authored or co-authored. Note that my involvement in these briefs ranges from principal author to co-author to editor.

In re Seagate Technology, LLC, 497 F. 3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007)

Viacom v. YouTube, S.D.N.Y. No. 07-Civ-2103, 718 F. Supp. 2d 514 (S.D.N.Y. 2010)

UMG v. Veoh, Ninth Circuit No. 09-56777 (opinion issued under the name of UMG v. Shelter Capital Partners)

Microsoft v. i4i, Supreme Court No. 10-290, Certiorari stage brief

Golan v. Holder, Supreme Court No. 10-545, Certiorari stage brief

Sony BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, First Circuit Nos. 10-883, 10-1947, 10-2052

Microsoft v. i4i, Supreme Court No. 10-290, Merits stage brief

Viacom v. YouTube (and Premier League v. YouTube), Second Circuit Nos. 10-3270, 10-3342

Golan v. Holder, Supreme Court No. 10-545, Merits stage brief

Akamai Tech., Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., Federal Circuit Nos. 2009-1372, -1380, -1416, -1417, and McKesson Tech. Inc. v. Epic Sys. Corp., Federal Circuit No. 2010-1291

Brownmark Films, LLC v. Comedy Partners, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures Corp., South Park Digital Studios, LLC, and Viacom International, Inc., Seventh Circuit No. 11-2620

Capitol Records, Inc., et al. v. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Eighth Circuit Nos. 11-2820, 11-2858

The Authors Guild v. Google Inc., S.D.N.Y. No. 05-8136

CLS Bank v. Alice Corp., Federal Circuit No. 2011-1301

Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., Federal Circuit Nos. 2013-1021, -1022

WildTangent, Inc. v. Ultramercial, LLC, Supreme Court No. 13-255, Certiorari stage brief

Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, Supreme Court No. 13-298, Certiorari stage brief

Viacom v. YouTube, Second Circuit No. 13-1720

Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, Supreme Court No. 13-298, Merits stage brief

Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc., Supreme Court No. 12-786, Merits stage brief

Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., Supreme Court No. 13-369, Merits stage brief

The Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., Second Circuit No. 13-4829

Google v. Oracle, Supreme Court No. 14-410, Certiorari stage brief

Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., Supreme Court No. 13-896, Merits stage brief

SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Limited, Fourth Circuit No. 16-1808

Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., Federal Circuit No. 17-1118, appeal brief

Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Arista Networks, Inc., Federal Circuit No. 17-2145

Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC, Federal Circuit No. 17-1118, supporting petition for rehearing en banc

Google LLC, v. Oracle America, Inc., Supreme Court No. 18-956, Certiorari stage brief

Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., Supreme Court No. 18-956, Merits stage brief

Other EFF Projects

  • Comments of EFF regarding trial proceedings under the AIA
  • Comments of EFF and Public Knowledge to the Copyright Office regarding Orphan Works
  • Comments of EFF to the Patent Office regarding preparation of patent applications
  • Comments of EFF to the Patent Office regarding software patents
  • Letter to Federal Circuit re publication of orders

Why a Duck?

The "IP" part of this blog's title is self-explanatory -- the abbreviation for the shorthand term "intellectual property." But what to call the humor part of the name? It turns out that the duck is the funniest animal alive. A 2002 study confirms that jokes mentioning ducks are funnier than others.

If you think about it, that makes sense. Think of the funniest joke you know, and replace one of the characters with a duck. It instantly becomes even funnier. You might not even need the punchline. For example, which is funnier:
"A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar . . . "
-- OR --
"A priest, a rabbi, and a duck walk into a bar . . . "

And needless to say, "Weird Al" Yankovic's "I Want a New Duck" is MUCH funnier than Huey Lewis' "I Want a New Drug."

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