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Meet Magdalena

June 15th, 2009, Tomasz Rychlicki

Magdalena Gad (well known as Gadufka ;) is a law graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She also studied at two other European universities: the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and University of Salzburg in Austria. She completed the American School of Law Program at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law (CUA) in Washington D.C. and the Summer School of Business and Trade Law – a joint venture of the CUA and her Alma Mater. Upon the completion of her studies in Poland, she left for sunny California to obtain an LL.M. degree in Transnational Business Practice. Subsequently she moved to the East Coast to sit for the New York bar exam and is currently pending admission. She returned to Poland to work as a junior associate at the IT/IP department of Baker & McKenzie in Warsaw.

Law aside, she is a passionate photographer who loves chocolate (her motto: “it ain’t breakfast if it ain’t chocolate”) and like a real woman is an addicted shopaholic. If she wasn’t a lawyer … she would most likely be… an archeologist or an architect. Once she becomes a filthy rich lawyer she will dump everything and retire in Croatia, to run her own boutique hotel on the Dalmatian coast.

What can I say, she’s a smart, young chick who I happen to like a lot. Definitely, not a corporate zombie. Soon you will read her posts at this website.

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Meet the Bloggers IV

May 15th, 2008, Tomasz Rychlicki

May 19, 2008.From 20:30 to 22:30 at Potsdamer Platz 1, 10785 Berlin. Herzlich willkommen. There will be representatives of:
Afro-IP
Catch Us If You Can !!!
Class 46
IMPACT
IP Finance
IPEG
IPJUR
IPKat
Lucentinus
Naked Law
Petit Musee des Marques
Peter Groves
Seattle Trademark Lawyer
SOLO IP
Spicy IP
The Trademark Blog
Transblawg
TTABlog
The first “Meet the Bloggers” was held in San Diego in 2005. Marty Schwimmer (The Trademark Blog) and John Welch (TTABlog) were the first one to meet.

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The talking cat

June 7th, 2007, Tomasz Rychlicki

Sometime ago, I read a judgement in Miles v. City Council of Augusta, 551 F. Supp. 349 (D. Ga. 1982). A subject matter of this case and Judge Bowen’s comments included in footnote 1 induced me to dedicate this post to a person I know. Jeremy Phillips is my friend, mentor and a big authority, not to mention that he is also co-author and creator of the famous ipkat.com blog.

In ruling on the motions for summary judgment, the Court has considered only the evidence in the file. However, it should be disclosed that I have seen and heard a demonstration of Blackie’s abilities. The point in time of the Court’s view was late summer, 1982, well after the events contended in this lawsuit. One afternoon when crossing Greene Street in an automobile, I spotted in the median a man accompanied by a cat and a woman. The black cat was draped over his left shoulder. Knowing the matter to be in litigation, and suspecting that the cat was Blackie, I thought twice before stopping. Observing, however, that counsel for neither side was present and that any citizen on the street could have happened by chance upon this scene, I spoke, and the man with the cat eagerly responded to my greeting. I asked him if his cat could talk. He said he could, and if I would pull over on the side street he would show me. I did, and he did. The cat was wearing a collar, two harnesses and a leash. Held and stroked by the man Blackie said “I love you” and “I want my Mama.” The man then explained that the cat was the sole source of income for him and his wife and requested a donation which was provided. I felt that my dollar was well spent. The cat was entertaining as was its owner. Some questions occurred to me about the necessity for the multiple means of restraint and the way in which the man held the cat’s paw when the cat was asked to talk. However, these are not matters before the Court and are beyond the purview of a federal judge. I do not know if the man whom I saw with the cat was the plaintiff Mr. Miles.

This sequence has not been considered as evidence or as an uncontroverted fact in the case. It is simply stated for the purpose of a disclosure to the parties of the chance contact.

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Posting break

May 21st, 2007, Tomasz Rychlicki

I’m in the New York City until Saturday. On May 22, I’ll attend the Thomson Compumark’s IP Law Educational Forum, “Trademark Law and The Internet”. I’m also going to chill with my friends, so there will be a short break in posting. Cheers!

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Some mess in Internet press

April 16th, 2007, Tomasz Rychlicki

Some of my recent posts, especially the one entitled “iPhone icons versus Zawiasinski“, made some “press mess” in the Internet. It was commented on at yahoo.com, washingtonpost.com, pcworld.com, arstechnica.com, and many other. Of course, there were also comments that I received via e-mail, for which I would like to thank you all. I personally enjoy mostly the posts that were written by my friends. Check Marcin Sochacki’s website and read about his findings regarding visits to my website. There are some interesting opinions of Piotr Waglowski, in Polish. It’s truly an interesting read. In the meantime, I sit and wait for Apple’s reaction. More about it in the future, so stay tuned.

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