Design patent functionality focus of MIPLA meeting
The Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA) will host its January luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at The Skyline Club, 2000 Town Center in Southfield.
Marc Lorelli, of Brooks Kushman, will present “The ‘Other’ Judicially Created Patentability Exception: Design Patent Functionality.”
Cost is $25 for MIPLA members and $35 for non-members. To register online, visit mipla.org.
Detroit-area mayor, others charged in fraud, bribery scheme
TAYLOR (AP) — A Detroit-area mayors and others were charged this week with bribery and fraud involving hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of an ongoing public corruption investigation.
An unsealed 33-count indictment alleged Taylor Mayor Rick Sollars, city Community Development Manager Jeffrey Baum and real estate developer Shady Awad participated in a scheme that included awarding Awad’s company tax-foreclosed properties.
In exchange, Awad was accused of providing kickbacks that included cash and more than $40,000 worth of renovations to Sollars’ primary and vacation homes.
Sollars and Baum also defrauded donors to the mayor’s campaign, the indictment alleged.
Prosecutors said they’re going to ask a judge to let the government keep about $206,000 in cash seized from Sollars’ home in February that authorities said was stolen from his own campaign fund.
Gold bar donated to Salvation Army kettle
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A gold bar worth almost $1,500 was found among donations to one of the Salvation Army's red kettles in Kentucky.
Louisville Area Commander Major Roy Williams told WAVE-TV that the bar was found over the weekend in a kettle at the Kroger in Prospect. It was the fourth straight year that a one-ounce gold piece has been donated anonymously, he said.
Other smaller gold and silver coins also have been found in recent days.
The Louisville Area Salvation Army said it is still about $70,000 short of its fundraising goal.
The charity hopes to raise $500,000 during its annual Red Kettle Campaign.
Fowl move: Stolen chicken returned to elementary students
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A school chicken stolen from a New Mexico elementary's coop has been returned unharmed.
KOB-TV reports the chicken, Polka Dot, was returned to the students of Hodgin Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a man saw a story about the stolen bird.
The man says some students gave him the chicken because he is known to take care of the birds.
Polka Dot had been taken from her coop at the school over the weekend.
Students said that Polka Dot was like family and they have raised her since she was a chick.
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