A call for the creation of the Uniform Username Dispute Resolution Policy.

The Problem Of the top 100 global brands, 93% have had their Twitter usernames taken by somebody else (i.e. Twittersquatted). Twittersquatting, like cybersquatting, is when somebody registers a company's trademark (or a famous person's name) as a Twitter username with the intent of profiting or causing confusion. Other possible names for this practice include username squatting, usernamesquatting, squitting, usersquatting… [click here to read more]

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Intro Stuff

The opinions expressed in LawLawLaw do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Clock Tower Law Group, its employees, or the author. Do not taunt happy fun ball.

I lived the life of Dilbert when I was in the Air Force. Once while I was away on a business trip, our… [click here to read more]

Clock Tower Law Group filed historic favicon.ico trademark.

You know that little icon that appears next to the URL in your browser? The same little icon that appears in your bookmarks window, on browser tabs, and in web feeds? That little icon, the favicon, can now be registered as a trademark with the USPTO. Yahoo! registered (what I believe to be) the first

Hardware of the year: MacBook. Software of the year: LogMeIn. Service of the year: Google Reader.

• 0. System
• 1. Engineering
• 2. Games
• 3. Hardware
• 4. Internet

• Email
• File Sharing
• File Transfer
• Phone
• Remote Control
• Web Browsers

5. Multimedia

• Audio Tools
• Graphics Tools
• Multimedia - Apple
• Multimedia - Other
• PDF
• Video Tools

6. Office

7. Utilities

• Backup
• Compression
• Disk Utils
• File Utils
• Network
• OSS
• Search
• System Utils
• Virus

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Small businesses need a plan for backing up and restoring their data.

By Erik J. Heels

First published 10/1/2007; Law Practice magazine, "nothing.but.net" column; American Bar Association

I have lost no data (knock on wood) since October 2002. And in that case, I purchased a 15-year-old Macintosh to restore the one file that I lost. (See Zen And The Art Of Data Restoration, nothing.but.net, May 2003.)… [click here to read more]

Create temp files for frequently used file extensions.

Here's one of my favorite tricks. I do this on Windows and OS X. For 95% of my data, I use only a few file types. Open files formats work best for my desktop search engine, but I use both open and proprietary formats (being an OS pragmatist).

In the "My Documents" folder on Windows… [click here to read more]

Plus how to detect hotlinked images.

My blog is a work in progress. I have long-term and short-term projects. I recently completed a long overdue project. I wrote to United Media, the publisher of the Dilbert comic strip, to request permission to reprint a Dilbert comic that I blogged about a couple of years ago. (See Musician Loses Job Due

Technology, Law, Baseball, Rock 'n' Roll, Etc.

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The opinions expressed in LawLawLaw do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Clock Tower Law Group, its employees, or the author. Exact change saves time.

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Save The Whales OK… [click here to read more]

Or how to suck up to Microsoft. Depends on your perspective.

My friend Peter H. Schmidt sent a link to a fascinating story in Redmond Channel Partner about how to do business with Microsoft. The title of the article is "Minding Your Microsoft Manners." Depending on how you feel about Microsoft (love 'em or hate 'em), you'll either find this article helpful or… [click here to read more]

How to defend your brands on the Internet.

By Erik J. Heels

First published 7/1/2007; Law Practice magazine, "nothing.but.net" column; American Bar Association

In 1997, if you had a domain name and a registered trademark for your brand, you were in good shape. In 2007, it takes more to protect your brand on the Internet, because the definition of "brand" has expanded to include things that aren't necessarily… [click here to read more]