Josh Landau

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Patents and innovation, dogs, skiing, skiing dogs? Also Michigan - go blue!

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Keith

Huh. Yeah. The others look raw (though maybe just haven’t flipped yet?) but that is a grill mark peeking out if you look closely, isn’t it.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL

How about skiing the Streif?

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Felonious Monk 📚

The middle isn’t a main controller, it’s a separate sear burner. (Grill is a Genesis II E-330 or similar.) You still don’t put cheese on raw meat, but the grill is most likely on.

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Dell Cameron

If only you could edit it.

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Josh Landau

If you, like me, clicked on that viral video last week about the guy driving a car during a court hearing on a suspended license charge, don't miss this follow up. The court ordered his license reinstated 2 years ago, but never sent the paperwork: www.wxyz.com/news/why-was...

Why was the driver in a viral video's license still suspended 2 years after a judge ordered it lifted?www.wxyz.com The video of Corey Harris that went viral has garnered a lot of laughs but it is no joke for Harris who is trying to understand how he even ended up being charged with driving while license suspended.

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Josh Landau

Just a reminder that we'll be talking about LKQ this Tuesday via Zoom. Hope you can join us!

Interested in design patents? We are reconvening our all-star panel to discuss the Federal Circuit's en banc decision in #LKQvGM. Please join us next Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at noon Eastern via Zoom. More details and the (free) registration link here: events.suffolk.edu/event/design...

Suffolk University in Boston - Suffolk Universityevents.suffolk.edu Suffolk University in Boston is a private higher education institution offering full- and part-time undergraduate, graduate, and law programs.

Good luck, residents of Springfield IL. Invest in earplugs.

Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in the Midwest and the South. Two different broods of the ~extremely loud ~ insects are set to crawl out of the ground together for the first time since 1803. See where they’ll appear on this map:

Mapping 2024’s cicada double-whammywww.washingtonpost.com This spring, billions of bugs are expected to be flying around a portion of the middle of the United States, including the Midwest’s largest city.

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Josh Landau

"Revenge porn who? We're here to make sure we secure the rights of the RIAA to stage Michael Jackson hologram concerts for the next 70 years"

Super great and healthy that the discussion about protecting Americans from being digitally impersonated is being driven and dominated entirely by entertainment industry lobbyists!

The NO FAKES Act: Protecting Americans from Unauthorized Digital Replicas | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciarywww.judiciary.senate.gov United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

It's that time again - donate for refugees, and for spite towards your college's hated opponent(s). This year? A dime for every day it's been since Ohio State beat the 2023 NATIONAL CHAMPION MICHIGAN WOLVERINES.

@hollyanderson.bsky.social since I forgot to tag you in the original.

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Josh Landau

Once a year a weird collection of college football fans on the Internet come together to raise an absolute ton of money for refugees in the ATL area. Donate for spite, and because your school is better than that other one, and oh yeah because it helps people who need it.

Not gonna flog this too much over here bc most of our audience is still in the bad place buuuuut the CharitibundiBowl is live click here to donate: http://igfn.us/form/4Y9QjQ or text charitybowl23 to 91999.

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Josh Landau

I'm looking for a very specific type of scholar: A historian who uses computational text analysis methods - ideally word embeddings or later methods, who works in an actual history department, who publishes in history outlets, who resides in North America. #DH help?

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cjdcat

This is why I only take edits in redlines that I enter into my own master document. No one can be trusted with my styles.

If you're interested in IP and AI - especially ownership of outputs - can I recommend you tune in tomorrow morning to the Hous Judiciary IP Subcommittee hearing where I will be testifying on exactly that topic?

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Part III – IP Protection for AI-Assisted Inventions and Creative Works | House Judiciary Committee Republicansjudiciary.house.gov

And if you missed it this morning, you can catch it as a rerun on the committee site (and YouTube) m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxA6...

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Part IIIm.youtube.com X: https://X.com/HouseJudiciaryTHREADS: https://www.threads.net/@housejuddemsINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/housejuddems/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook...

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Dr. Robin Bond: academic working for nothing this summer 🧪

I used to walk home from elementary/middle school when it was nice out. It was a one mile walk with a decent chunk along a dirt road with no sidewalks. And it was fine! I just don't get the people who think kids can't be alone for five seconds, much less a twenty minute walk.

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Josh Landau

It hasn't popped up on RECAP yet, but our newest filing at the 11th Circuit is up. It's pretty important! The government moved to dismiss our appeal, telling the 11th Circuit that it was now moot because the affidavit had been unsealed. One problem: it remains sealed! USCA11 Case: 23-13649 Doc 26

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Josh Landau

TIL: someone tried to steal the color formula for Oreo’s cream filling “Beyond the color, the cream was protected by a patent for its composition, granted in 1987. Food scientist Sam Porcello invented the cream’s smooth texture with aeration and mixing it to a gravity between .70 and .82.”

USPTO on LinkedIn: #nationaloreoday #tradesecret #protectwhatyoulovewww.linkedin.com Ore-oh no you don’t! Stealing a trade secret is a federal crime. The color formula for Oreo’s white cream is protected by trade secret – and so coveted that…

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Stephanie

Whaaaat? I love this, definitely adding it to my IP survey course as a trade secret/patent example.

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Tiffany (parentheses overuser)

My polling place is my kid's school, so I am very very aware tomorrow is the primary because they don't have school as a result.

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Timothy Burke

My union (as an adjunct) is SEIU, I think you just go with whoever at this point. (Also AAUP hasn't done collective bargaining for very long, and they're still weirdly organized where each individual chapter is on its own.)

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Megan Greenwell

OK so. Fortress has a fund that is specifically dedicated to funding patent litigation. Most notably, they fund VLSI, which has been going after Intel for a few years now. But also they funded Labrador Diagnostics, who sued BioFire over diagnostic tests. www.patentprogress.org/2020/03/pate...

After it was reported that Labrador was including BioFire's COVID testing in what it accused of infringement, Labrador claimed it would drop that part of the case (though I don't recall if that actually happened, there was reason to think it might not be meaningful, as I explained in the post.)

In the meantime, VLSI has filed something like 10 lawsuits against Intel, at last count. In one of them, they walked away from the case when they thought they might have to disclose who their funders were (speculation is that it's because some of the funders are foreign sovereign wealth funds.)

There's ALSO some fun history, in that VLSI's firm (Irell) is also the Trump PTO Director's old firm, and some of the policies he put in place during that time benefited VLSI by preventing Intel from seeking review of those patents. (Someone else did. They were largely invalidated.)

One Case, All The Problems: VLSI v. Intel Exemplifies Current Issues In Patent Litigation - Patent Progresswww.patentprogress.org Patent litigation suffers from a number of issues at present.

ANOTHER one of their subs has been trying to get a decent chunk of the handset market banned from import, and I'm sure there's others I'm blanking on right this second.

Oh right I forgot the best/worst part. The patents that Labrador asserted against BioFire were old Theranos patents that Fortress had scooped up as part of their loan to Theranos during the winddown.

I guess give DC credit for placing their (poorly functioning) surveillance devices more or less based on population density?

NEW: Leaked data analyzed by WIRED’s @dmehro.bsky.social reveals the secret locations of ShotSpotter sensors around the globe, and the communities most directly impacted by the surveillance. www.wired.com/story/shotsp...

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Josh Landau

The freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. Mr. Burke’s prosecution shows the DOJ needs to do more to show that its charging policy prevents CFAA misuse.

Is the Justice Department Even Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrimewww.eff.org Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL

Hana's good. Would also recommend Shabu, High West Saloon, and Davanza's up in historic PC.