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Pinocchios for intellectual property professors?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Michael Dobbs of the Washington Posthas been covering an account by Hillary Clinton of a trip to Bosnia:

"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
--Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

Dobbs doesn't think so:

The Pinocchio Test

Clinton's tale of landing at Tuzla airport "under sniper fire" and then running for cover is simply not credible. Photographs and video of the arrival ceremony, combined with contemporaneous news reports, tell a very different story. Four Pinocchios.

Maybe we should handing out Pinocchios to certain statements of intellectual property professors. Would Obama get a derivative Pinocchio for having Lemley as advisor? One commenter at patenthawk wrote:

There is so much hinky about Obama. From a patent perspective, him having Mark Lemley as advisor speaks volumes. If his big offset for lack of experience is judgment...

[Contrary to Lemley, Gary Boone didn't the integrated circuit and the inventors of the transistor did NOT think its uses were limited to hearing aids.]

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There is also a Sikahema in the Hillary business:

The First Lady's schedule, released on Wednesday [March 19] and available here, confirms that she arrived in Tuzla at 8.45 a.m. and was greeted by various dignitaries, including Emina Bicakcic, (whose name has mysteriously been redacted from the document.)

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Separately, IAM has some discussion of Jon Dudas and fee diversion.

Full post as published by IPBiz on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).