Mark Lemley chats about the Alice case of the US Supreme Court and his firm Lex Machina, Ken is telling us about Facebook as a service of process in legal proceedings, Rolf tells you about the new fast-track CTM applications! Have fun!

IP FRIDAYS

Co-Presenters:

Rolf Claessen and Kenneth Suzan

Episode 15 – November 14, 2014

RC = Rolf Claessen

KS = Kenneth Suzan

IF= Ean Floyd

ML = Mark Lemley

Hi. This is Mark Lemley from Stanford Law School and you are listening to IP Fridays.

KS: Hello and welcome to this episode of IP Fridays. Our names are Ken Suzan and Rolf Claessen and this is THE podcast dedicated to Intellectual Property. It does not matter where you are from, in-house or private practice, novice or expert, we will help you stay up-to-date with current topics in the fields of trademarks, patents, design and copyright, discover useful tools and much more.

RC: First of all I want to thank you for tuning in to IP Fridays. Our podcast has now been downloaded over 6,500 times and the number of listeners is growing and growing. I want to already hint that we will have a Christmas present for you. Actually, we are giving away original Christmas mugs from a German Christmas market in Cologne, my hometown, and we will have more about this in our first show in December. Also, our listener, Ian Floyd, left us a really nice feedback. If you want to leave us a feedback, you can go to www.ipfridays.com/feedback or simply press on the leave voicemail button on the right of your screen when you enter our Website.

IF: Hey guys, this is Ian Floyd from the Love & Sensibility podcast and I just want to let you know that I really appreciate your show. You know, people out there that have a business are going to run into situations when you are dealing with intellectual property – you know, patents, copyrights, that type of thing, even podcasts – and I just want to let you guys know that I really appreciate what you are doing out there and to tell everybody else that you need to listen to this show and download this show and keep it as one of the shows that comes up in your podcast iTunes list every week. So guys, keep up the great work.

RC: We have a link to Ian’s podcast in the show notes for you.

I am very excited to have a special guest today who has been coined, “The Most Influential Academic Person in the IP Field”. Today’s interview is with Mark Lemley from Stanford University and he will tell us more about the most recent Alice case of the Supreme Court and he will tell us about his company, Lex Machina. Also, I will tell you about fast track proceedings for community trademarks but, before we jump into the interview, Ken has a really interesting story about Facebook as a service of process in legal proceedings in the U.S.

KS: Suppose that you are dealing with a certain legal issue regarding divorce, or child support, but cannot get in contact with the opposing party. What methods could you use to locate them? Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, is used for connecting with old friends, new friends, and family. They say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and one New York judge recently granted permission to serve legal documents via social media platform Facebook.

A New York Judge recently granted permission to Noel Biscocho to use Facebook to serve legal documents to his wife Anna Maria Antigua since there was no other way to contact her. The plaintiff had no way to trace his ex-wife since she had moved to a different address and changed her phone number. The case was heard before Family Court in New York before Staten Island Support Magistrate Gregory Gliedman. The judge ruled “despite the absence of a physical address, Biscocho does have a means by which he can contact…namely the existence of a social media account.”