ROBERTA J. MORRIS

        Note on MMPS - Morris's Michigan Patent Students

MMPS grew out of an idea proposed by Sharon Severance Brady, a
student in my Patent Law class of 1993 during the last class (as
always, a review session and party).  Sharon, who had been put
through law school by Dow Corning and was returning there,
thought she would want to hire as outside counsel her former
classmates who were at firms.  She suggested that I compile a
list of everyone's expected whereabouts after the bar, and then
send copies to the class.  The original list was a newsletter
called Morris's Michigan Patent Students (MMPS).  
As the years went by, I included my copyright students who were
also interested in patents and even students who took no classes
with me but who came to talk to me about patent law.
     
At some point I created a website.  It still exists 
     http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rjmorris/mmps/table.htm
     username:  festo
     password:  title35  
 although the main page hasn't been updated since July 2005  and
the linked list of email addresses http://www-
personal.umich.edu/~rjmorris/mmps/em070222.txt hasn't been
updated since 2007.

More recent email addresses are in the googlegroup I created
after I moved to Stanford.  The googlegroup includes Stanford
students, too.  The googlegroup is less useful than the webpages
were because it doesn't have firm names unless the person uses
the firm email address, but it is more useful because the
students can update their email addresses themselves.  Alas,
because there are only send a few messages a year, I mostly learn
that people have moved jobs because messages bounce.  It is the
Google age, though, and I can often find new addresses.  Examples
of messages are those from former students whose firms or clients
are looking for experienced patent lawyers, and those from me
concerning late-breaking news on cases and other developments
that were the topic of student seminar talks. I also circulated
the call for best law teachers for this study. 


After I moved to Stanford in 2006 , I created a googlegroup
mmps@google...,

  andto have asked a few students from every class I taught to
write you directly.  I only asked people I have been in touch
with over the years, and I only asked a small fraction of that
group. (More on that is in the W02