Join us this morning at 11 to talk about intellectual property for inventors.

One of our favorite clients!

Congratulations to our clients in the winners’ circle!

Great to talk to the @Courtroom5Legal team about our Legal Tech Externship. (You should subscribe to their excellent podcast.) Many thanks for the chat and for their work with our externs!

Check out our legal tech externs talking about their work on the @Courtroom5Legal platform.

Our own Jared Bruttig on data-driven legal decisions and his work at UniCourt.

Meet Robot Law Badger. We made him with DALL-E 2. Sure, he's cool in a creepy sort of way. But how will real lawyers face the onrushing future of large language models? We'll be working with GPT-3 and other AI tools this semester. Stay tuned for updates on what we learn.

Godspeed.

We agree. No collars on football shirts.

Good ideas.

Harriet Mwayi Maona was born in Lilongwe, Malawi. Before attending UW Law School, Maona worked in both the public and private sectors. In the thread below are excerpts from her speech as the 2023 Hooding Ceremony LL.M.-L.I. candidate speaker:

Congratulations Harriet!

Students & early-career professionals: do you have an innovative idea to impact science? 15 will be selected to pitch on September 5 at the UW–Madison. Winner goes to Berlin to present at the Falling Walls Science Summit, 11/7-8. Apply by Aug 7. falling-walls.com/lab/apply/wisc…

It's been 95 years since the first patent was issued for UW–Madison Biochem prof. & WARF founder Harry Steenbock's vitamin D discovery. #WisconsinInnovates

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/… Microsoft will now indemnify its commercial customers for any IP infringement claims resulting from use of Copilot. Lots of conditions and exclusions, but a big commitment from Microsoft given the unsettled legal issues.

It was a pleasure to welcome Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin Jennifer Mnookin to the L&E Clinic. We look forward to working with her to support and promote campus entrepreneurs.

Back at Clinic HQ we sometimes ask DALL-E to create pictures of Bucky practicing law. Not because we’ve already filled the trash basket with paper basketballs. For science. Anyhoo, is this result admitting to copyright infringement? Are we contributory infringers?

We're proud to have been selected to receive major grant funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative. It will help us serve more small business and build new technology. Read all about it: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV…

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Advance program is accepting letters of intent for their summer cohort. Letters of intent due by 12 noon, April 9. ow.ly/ChhX50QTJ7B

#HardTech accelerator: Building a physical product, working on sensors, hardware, robots, devices, measuring equipment or batteries in manufacturing, food & bev, ag or energy? Next session: June 21-22 (hybrid). Apply by May 17. ow.ly/EHEj50R2nrq StartingBlock Madison