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AI-Powered Contend Offers Affordable Legal Advice + Letter Drafting

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For many years there have been efforts to create an easy to use, reliable and affordable legal AI system that will give people advice and even draft documents for them.

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State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy leader–The Register

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Brandon Vigliarolo INTERVIEW There’s a lot of momentum behind the right-to-repair movement, and if anyone should know, it’d be Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of the Repair Association and longtime repairability advocate. We spoke with Gordon-Byrne, in an interview you can watch below, to get a sense of the state of the right-to-repair movement in light of the passage of EU repairability laws and news out of Colorado that the state senate approved an expanded right to repair rul

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Misjoinder Dooms SAD Scheme Patent Case–Wang v. Schedule A Defendants

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35 U.S.C. § 299 limits joinder in patent cases to defendants who infringe using “the same accused product or process.” Congress enacted this requirement to restrict patent trolls who were filing lawsuits against defendants who had nothing in common but the allegation that they were infringing the same patent. Section 299 should cast a long shadow over SAD Scheme patent cases, which routinely attempt to join defendants who are engaging in parallel but independent acts of alleged infri