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Jeff Steck@jefstec.bsky.social |
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Fan of odd and ingenious ideas. 📍Chicago
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Jeff Steck
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I was hoping to learn something from the article about the effect of Loper on patent practice. Instead, the author seems to be prematurely celebrating the death of stare decisis in the absurd hope that the Court will reverse its unanimous holdings in Bilski and Alice.
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Jeff Steck
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No, I grew up in the area and just started getting interested in film before I moved away for college. I was glad to see the Neon still exists, maybe across the street from where it was?
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Jeff Steck
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Wow, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm at the Neon circa 1990, that and Apocalypse Now
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My brain froze on that sentence and tried to make sense of it by wondering if the Court used to be larger.
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"Conceived on the Fourth of July" 🗽🎆
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Caltech has patented a "synthetic skin" that is powered by the chemicals in your sweat. US Patent 12004876
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Jeff Steck
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Unusual use of a Chinese character in a US patent claim for a sweeper robot that follows a "弓-shaped path." US Patent 12011126
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Jeff Steck
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Straight from Better Call Saul: a patent just issued for a "singing potty that sings a repetitive jingle with the words 'Mama, I am a big boy.'" US Patent 12011123
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"Study the parts, study the tent, figure out what the tent inventor was thinking when they tried to solve this problem."
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My daughter bought me a print of this patent, which combines my love of bicycles and technological dead-ends. US Patent 521786 (1894)
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Jeff Steck
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Computerized portion control for pets, and a dog who disagrees with the concept. US Patent 12004492
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For perspective, a mountaineering oxygen tank is about 3.5lbs heavier when full, but to get there it needs to be pumped up to about 300 times the atmospheric pressure.
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Dinosaur mask with battery-powered feathers. Patent application US 2023/0046080
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Jeff Steck
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I hadn't thought about the 8cm^2 limitation. That's a pretty small area and even the art cited by the applicant (grill cleaning wipes) is larger than that.
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Jeff Steck
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Add weight to your dumbbell by ... inflating it with air? US Patent 12005293
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Jeff Steck
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A "cookware seasoning wipe" (i.e. an oily rag). US Patent 12004682
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Jeff Steck
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Popular Mechanics is full of dubious ideas but it's hard to find fault with this one (1905).
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Jeff Steck
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An electronic kigurumi costume that changes its appearance if you are feeling unwell. US Patent 11998066 (The Pokémon Company)
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Many of you have suggested that soft tortillas are the better solution. Don't worry: General Mills is on it. US Patent 11246316 (describing a "semi-rigid... shaped soft tortilla")
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Jeff Steck
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Yesterday 🙂
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A taco shell with a strip of glycerin along the fold to create a "rubbery region" that reduces cracking. US Patent 11998018 (General Mills)
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Yikes!
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
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same lab
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Yale University has patented a system for keeping your brain alive in a "brain chamber." US Patent 11998001
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Lobster leash. US Patent 11997992, issued today.
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US Patent 12,000,000 issued today for "Labeled Nucleotide Analogs, Reaction Mixtures, and Methods and Systems for Sequencing." The Patent Office didn't manifestly fiddle with the numbers like they did last time. (Patent 11,000,000 would otherwise have been a humble "soybean cultivar").
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Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein
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D675,547 - issued in 2013 for a design for a "gay cowboy pride flag." #DesignPatents
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Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein
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D604,131 - issued in 2009 for a design "for an opener for a bottle of sparkling wine." #DesignPatents
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Jeff Steck
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US Patent Number 12,000,000 will be issuing this coming Tuesday. Per usual practice, the Patent Office will probably hand-pick the invention assigned to that patent number to ensure it isn't something odd or unsettling.
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From the product reviews: "I feel like I'm waterboarding a barbie.... Then you get to dress Barbie and pretend like all is fine, but it's not. You both come out traumatized."
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Jeff Steck
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A Barbie that you soak in water to reveal her secret skin color. US Patent 11992783
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Academic job market so rough that people need to join the NHL to get by
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Elf on a shelf, but with rizz. Patent Application US20220249966
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The inventor is a human named "Barker" and definitely not three dogs in a trench coat.
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Jeff Steck
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A glove with embedded squeakers in the fingers, making it "fun and playful" for dogs to chew on you. US Patent 11985955
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Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein
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Bloomberg Law on #LKQvGM, featuring some quotes from yours truly:
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Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein
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D248,284 - issued in 1978 for a design for a "distress flag." #DesignPatents
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Our Federal Courts must act now to protect the public from unauthorized Tesla ... branding irons?
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Light fizzy cabernet, old chum.
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Stephanie
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Barbie turns brittle and shrinks as she ages, just like the rest of us. Life in plastic may not be fantastic after all?
"As the degradation progresses PVC will also become more brittle and may even shrink once more than 15% of the plasticiser is lost"
www.chemistryworld.com/features/con...
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Jeff Steck
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Aurora in Chicago, almost outshining Wrigley Field (glow at bottom right)
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That's a pretty awful policy, but at least he seemed to recognize that law schools don't churn out an ideologically homogeneous graduating class (and could not if they tried)
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The Judges' statement that "Brennan refused to hire law clerks from Harvard" is misleading. Brennan went from hiring 100% from Harvard to hiring from a variety of schools including Harvard.
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Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein
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D266,777 - issued to Lucasfilm, Ltd. in 1982 for a design for a "toy vehicle." #DesignPatents
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Jeff Steck
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Counterpoint: I have never regretted buying food from the Random Person Walking Through The Chicago Bar With A Cooler Filled With Tamales
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"The hand rests over a bird, which it lightly incloses, giving it the appearance of just having reached out and secured the bird" Why don't we get specifications like this anymore?
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Trademark specimen on file for the "New York Chain," registered since 1997.
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Jeff Steck
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A method of mixing human remains with earthworm excrement. US Patent Application 2016/0000002
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Jeff Steck
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Glycine metal chelate complex nourishing additive agent for meeting the needs of a human body and reducing the Toxicity of Lead. Chinese Patent 105687204 (DONGHUA JINLONG CHEMICAL Co Ltd)
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Andrew Rothstein
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I prefer this Eclips! Sadly not in the path of totality. Not far from it.
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