Professa Murray

Design patent law should avoid being trademark law.

Yes, this is where art history—who know how to speak visual language would be very good. Ha! I think a series of principles that are not a multi-factor would be the best approach.

My general sense of it was: welcome to Resistance, Woke Bill Kristol. It was very considered, but he may have called the Supreme Court solons.

We had a great lecture at Marquette Law by Thom Merrill puzzling through the relationship between independent agencies and “departments” in the constitutional law.

Claim construction in design patent law is the Great Unknown. It is the one thing I ask experienced patent litigators: how do you do claim construction in a visual medium?

Oh, Eileen, I am always happy to talk too much, but I worry I may be too informative.

The only way to eat bologna is fried.

It was like watching Michael Jordan win the playoffs in the ‘90s.

John Roberts pays attention to Sam Alito as much as I do, which is to say: I don’t know the man.

It has been a real experience to talk my local new stations about rents rising. I talk to the poor reporter for like an hour and they literally play 15 seconds: rents are high.

Lawyers need media training and they just let us loose into the wild.

Could y’all deal with Jared Polis! What is going on?!!!!

Millennial. :) Gen X over here.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

I have four pairs of glasses now and it was a lot.

a woman wearing a white shirt and a necklace with turquoise beads Alt: Mariah Carey wearing a white shirt and a necklace with turquoise beads.

I am still trying to read what you posted this morning.

I learn from you everyday!!!

Secretary Bessent explains that the Trump Administration did not plan for: (a) drones; and (b) a narrow passage across the Straight of Hormuz and now must allow the Indians to buy oil from the Russians.

They did not know the Straight of Hormuz was 24 mile wide across and now Southeast Asia can’t buy oil. Heckuva of a time not to have a funded Coast Guard.

And MarkWayne McMullins Stuffings Bear should disavow any contact signed by Corey Lewandoski.

His staff should run around like the beasts that they were….

That was the Gettysburg Address of Government Oversight.

The real hero of the hour was Joe Neguse. Do you know how hard it is to explain: (a) no-bid contacts v.competitive bid contracts; (b) company incorporation; and (c) sub-contracting in FIVE minutes. As an Admin Nerd, I lost my mind.

I am of the firm belief that Pete Hegseth’s reliance on the Lord (and his wife) to stay sober and penitent should not be brought to his workplace.

The British Wars over religion consumed the grandfathers of several of the Founding Fathers and they were very clear that government should not entangled with religion.

Secretary of Defense(s) should just be the most boring guy in the room, like Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan does not pray all over the place.

Why does this man keep praying at work? A Secretary of Defense that (offensively) prays all the time makes me nervous: should we be worried? I like my Church and my State: separate.

D: If you don’t allow for impeachment on non-cabinet level advisers, they would be able to commit misbehavior with impunity. I think that what Stephen Miller thinks, but that is wrong.

A: The Impeachment Clause is quite broad: it states “all civil officers”.
B: The history of impeachment proceedings is often key and we have only seen cabinet level officers before.
C: It seems to me, though, is you can impeach the President, you can impeach the civil officers that work for him.

One of Trump's genuine lessons - partly prompted by Stephen Miller - is that if he tortured the law long enough, he would get it to say whatever he wanted. So he strategically recruited torturers.

I hope the Dems realize that have some legal academics who are very motivated by Article I. Why just today I made up a Department of Trade!