Month: August 2024

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I unplug a VOIP phone, and later I receive an email telling me it got unplugged

Yes, just an hour ago I unplugged a VOIP phone, and 45 minutes later I received an email telling me that it had gotten unplugged.  It means that my spiffy new SIP trunk monitor  is working.

It will be recalled (see blog article dated June 25, 2023) that I fished for people to join me in an open-source project.  The idea was to set up some PHP script that would run periodically, interrogating an API at the VOIP.MS company, querying the registration status of a long list of SIP trunks (what the company calls “subaccounts”).  Now I have this working, in a sort of simple way.

This kind of monitoring actually monitors quite a few things.  Suppose the VOIP device being monitored is a desktop phone.  Then this monitor will tip me off if any of these things happen:

    • Somebody unplugging the phone itself.
    • Failure in the power-over-ethernet delivery of power to the phone.
    • Loss of Internet connectivity at the place where the phone is located.

You can read about it here.

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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity CLE for patent and trademark attorneys

Colorado Rule 250.2(1)(a)(i) says that beginning January 1, 2023, every registered attorney must achieve at least two credit hours per reporting period in the area of equity, diversity, and inclusivity.

The Colorado office in charge of CLE lists three areas that are supposed to be covered in CLE courses about equity, diversity, and inclusivity, namely:

    • equal access to the legal system;
    • competent representation of diverse populations;
    • the recognition, mitigation, or elimination of bias in the legal profession or the legal system.

What may a patent attorney or trademark attorney do to respond in a meaningful way to licensure requirements regarding equity, diversity, and inclusivity?  In this webinar, join your presenter, Carl Oppedahl, in trying to figure out what the problems are, in such areas as patent and trademark prosecution, for which an EDI CLE requirement might be a solution.

When and where?  Thursday, September 5, 2024, Noon to 1:40 PM Mountain Time (100 minutes)

Format: Live webinar

For more information, or to register, click here.

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Ethics CLE – securing electronic communications

In nearly every state, ethics rules require a lawyer to make reasonable efforts to prevent the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of, or unauthorized access to, information relating to the representation of a client.  Colorado Rule 1.6(c), for example, says:

A lawyer shall make reasonable efforts to prevent the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of, or unauthorized access to, information relating to the representation of a client.

Does it violate ethics rules to use email in client communications?  Does it violate ethics rules to use ordinary text messaging on a mobile phone?  What about Skype, or Whatsapp, Viber or Signal?  Continue reading “Ethics CLE – securing electronic communications”