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April 09, 2005

rethink(ip) launched -- leading a revolution

Ready for a little revolution?

I am a bit late to the party due to some client visits and airline snafus, but if you haven’t heard – Matt Buchanan (Promote the Progress), Stephen Nipper (The Invent Blog) and myself launched the rethink(ip) blog this morning.

The RSS feed for the blog is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/rethinkip and the RSS feed for the podcast can be found at http://feeds.feedburner.com/rethinkipaloud

Let me tell you – the last four-six months have been crazy. 

As Steve put it – a zillion emails have been traded, a thousand lines of IM messages have been typed, as well as three dozen late night conference calls and, finally, drinks around a table at the Chicago Sheraton during TechShow last week.  As Matt said — we have some ambitious plans and we envision rethink(ip) as the starting point for a revolution in how intellectual property services are delivered and developed. 

Its ambitious as all hell – but you gotta dream big…

What started as a crazy idea is finally coming together and I hope y’all will enjoy the ride as much as we have in getting to this point — I am extremely proud to be part of this group and have nothing but the utmost respect for both Steve and Matt.  I already think of them both as two of my closest friends, advisors and confidants.

As Matt Homann mentioned, to see us at TechShow you would have thought we had known each other for our entire lives — but it was the first time we had met in person.  When an idea gels – it is amazing to see how fast it can become something beyond what you had ever dreamed.

Rethink(ip) is not going to supplant our current blogs – it is intended to be another avenue for a broader discussion of issues relating to the practice of intellectual property law and the client-centric model.  PHOSITA is and will always be a Dunlap Codding & Rogers blog and Melody Wirz has been adding some incredible posts lately.  I am looking forward to Melody continuing the discussions she has begun (especially about the role and increasing numbers of women in intellectual property law) and I think you will see other voices emerging from DCR as well.

This medium is changing the way we interact and relate to one another – and it is time we harnessed it to promote a new way of doing things.  A saner way of conducting our practice.  A more ‘embedded’ way of looking at a client.  Whatever you want to call it – it all boils down to the same thing: service and commitment.

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at 12:51 AM.
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