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The Common Cup
Open every day since 2007: offering locally sourced coffee, teas, baked goods, and a welcoming space for studying or events. Across Linden Street from First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Angell Elementary School and footsteps away from Chi Omega and seven other sororities and fraternity houses on the oddly-shaped lot bounded by South University. Washtenaw and Hill Streets.
Intellectual Property
It is impossible to overestimate the sensitivity of this topic but poke at it we will. As the "Rogers Curve" illustrates innovators will be smartly outnmbered by the partisans of the "Administrative State" that has found comfort in government and education communities. During today's colloquium we limit our inquiry to leading practice discovery and promulgation that informs the effectiveness of real assets of educational settlements everywhere.
2026 National Patent Application Drafting Competition (Results)
Winners of the 2026 Competition: (1st) University of California, Berkeley School of Law, (1st) Harvard Law School (2nd), Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (3rd). Registration for the 2027 competition will likely be announced later in 2026.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Abiit sed non oblitus | Concordia
The Board of Regent's acquisition of the 140-acre Geddes Road landmass of the former Concordia University later this month will give the Ann Arbor campus a shoreline on a major Southeastern Michigan river system and --104 miles downstream the Huron River Water Trail -- direct access to Lake Erie.
Sport News
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." — Earl Warren (American jurist and Chief Justice, often misattributed but widely quoted in sports contexts)
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries
Pairing young people with a lifetime bond may be the most enduring reason for educational settlements to exist; and one that has received subtle disregard by higher education administrators and marketers of the "college experience".