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Happy New Year from all of us here at BoleyBlogs! and the Boley Law Library!

Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Joseph Miller has the following forthcoming article:

Miller, Enhancing Patent Disclosure for Faithful Claim Construction, 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review ___ (forthcoming in March 2005).

Download the full-text paper here (pdf).

An abstract of the working paper is reprinted below:
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What will you do without BoleyBlogs! in your life? Enjoy a few good lists!

Here now, for your listing pleasure, are a few of the year-end most-popular-searches 2004 from:

• Google
• Google International
• Yahoo
• AOL
• Lycos
• BlogPulse: What’s Hot in the Blogosphere in 2004

Source: ResourceShelf

Legal Web Watch: Beyond Blogs is an article listing a “rash of worthwhile Web sites [that] came online in 2004.” Written by BoleyBlogs! favorite Rober Ambrogi, it is a good reminder of the many useful new non-blog web sites available for lawyers and the people who love them.

New on the list to BoleyBlogs!? A number of them, including U.S. Law Schools News Brief, publishing news releases daily from the many law schools across this land we call the United States.

liibulletin is a not-so-artfully-named service of the Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII), providing previews of high-profile cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

liibulletin provides questions presented, a summary, and extensive analysis for each case, complete with links to cited cases and code or constitutional sections. For example, see what liibulletin does with Ashcroft v. Raich.

liibulletin is available alternatively via email.

Source: beSpacific

PC Security 101 for Lawyers, a Legal Technology article, lays out a few basic steps to protecting your PC.

New law blog: Law in Hyperspeed, “The ADDventures of a practicing attorney in a southern state. I hope those in the law and those with ADD can find some comfort and help in these postings. The only real person in this blog is the author. The people described in this blog mostly represent sterotypes of some of the characters I see in my travels.”

Who is this attorney? Addicus Finch, of course…

Source: Inter Alia

Read Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database (NY Times) and find out all about Google’s ambitous and trend-setting plans to digitize and make available the contents of the libraries of Stanford, Harvard, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford. Oh, and the New York Public Library while they’re at it. To start.

Material already in the public domain will be made available online in full. Copyright-restricted material will be searchable on Google, but available in full-text only to the home library.

Read Google’s press release for more info, then go see what Google Print looks like.

Half the fun in all this (other than making some librarians wonder how to turn their blog editing duties into full-time employment…) is noticing how such Google announcements and front-page New York Times articles seem to appear on the same day as Microsoft announces major search initiatives of its own. Find out more about the MSN Toolbar Suite.

Information Flood Warning, an article by Tom Gelbman published today in LJN’s Legal Tech Newsletter, provides a quick overview of RSS feeds, bots, spiders, and other content-retrieval tools now available to help you beat back the legal information blues.

Did someone say RSS feed? Here is more info on RSS, and here are a few starter feeds:

• BoleyBlogs! RSS
• Law in the News RSS
• Library Updates RSS

Update: Just discovered, this list of newspapers with RSS feeds, currently at 154 newspapers and counting.
Source: ResearchBuzz

The Confrontation Blog, by University of Michigan Law School professor Richard D. Friedman, “is devoted to reporting and commenting on developments related to Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). Crawford transformed the doctrine of the Confrontation Clause, but it left many open questions that are, and will continue to be, the subject of a great deal of litigation and academic commentary.”

Source: How Appealing