Misc
A little Kickstarter love… BEARD (the game)
I sometimes meet with indie/startup game developers and provide guidance and advice based on my own experiences in the industry and having worked with lots of young companies. I recently met two…
Job Posting: Research Intern 2015
Each year we take on a Research Intern to help with ongoing case research, updating our patent database, refreshing content, and anything else that comes along. If you’re interested, please send a…
GDC 2015 – Who will be there?
I (Ross Dannenberg) will be at GDC next week from March 2-6. If anyone would like to meet up while there, send me a note either via my work email or through…
EVENT: More Than Just a Game: Interactive Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law
Queen Mary University Law School is hosting an event on 24 April 2015. Some details: April 24, 2015 Time: 2:30pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of…
POSITION AVAILABLE: Summer Intern 2014
If there are any law students out there looking for an internship, send me an email with your resume. We’re looking for some summer help with lawsuit research, patent research, writing of…
Job Opening: Patent Arcade Research Intern
Well folks, its almost that time of year again. Summer. And we need a Research Intern. If there are any 1L’s or 2L’s (or recent law school grads) looking for something to…
OUYA: Username Land Rush
I can’t shake my gut feeling that OUYA is going to be bigger than even they realize right now. Full disclosure: do I know some of the principals there? Yes. Have I…
Unmasking Intellectual Ventures?
A startup, IP Checkups, is looking to unmask the entities behind Intellectual Ventures (“IV”). IV owns a portfolio of 30,000+ patents. IP Checkups is looking to create a publicly-accessible database of patents…
Gangnam Style (Skyrim Style)
Nothing like a little comic relief, video game style… Check out the Skyrim version of Gangnam Style.
Vote for the Patent Arcade as BEST BLAWG!
Its that time of year again, when the ABA votes for best 100 blogs/blawgs. Please vote for the Patent Arcade here: http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/blawg100_submit/.
GTLD Application Reveal: List of applicants announced
By Richard S. Stockton and Victoria R. M. Webb The application period for new generic top level domains (which will supplement existing gTLDs like “.com”) closed on May 30, 2012. On June…
Banner & Witcoff named to inaugural NLJ IP Hot List
Today Banner & Witcoff was named to the National Law Journal’s inaugural IP Hot List. The National Law Journal selected 20 law firms who have proven to be innovators in applying legal…
New Book – Before The Crash: Early Video Game History
The Patent Arcade’s own Ross Dannenberg is a contributor to a new book on early video game history. Before the Crash: Early Video Game History, edited by Mark J. P. Wolf, will give…
Job: Summer Intern 2012
If there are any law students out there looking for an internship, send me an email with your resume, as we’re looking for some summer help with lawsuit research, patent research, writing…
Who’s going to GDC 2012?
I will be in San Francisco from March 6-11 for GDC 2012. Drop me an email if you will be in town and want to meet for coffee, lunch, drinks, etc. -Ross
Video Game Injury… it could happen to you
Sorry we’ve been silent for a while. Our “real jobs” has been keeping us away. In any event, an occurrence on Christmas Day reminded me of the progress that video games have…
Vote for the Patent Arcade Blog!
VOTE FOR PATENTARCADE.COM AS ONE OF THE BEST BLOGS Attention Patent Arcadians!!! (I just made that up) I am writing to request your vote for PatentArcade.com as one of the blogs to…
Thanks to our Summer Research Intern
A big thank you from the Patent Arcade blog to Maryam Henson, who has been our research intern this summer. Maryam is an evening law student at Georgetown and works full-time training…
Patents section revised and updated
We’ve been working on a renovation of our PATENTS link, as well as additional content, which is now live. It’s a bit cumbersome, but there is a lot more information there now.…
Ads for XBox – NUads
Ads on Xbox As advertising continues to evolve for game platforms, the New York Times reports that Microsoft is set to launch a new suite of advertising tools called NUads (short for…