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design_law

@design_law@mastodon.social

Art major turned law professor. Teaching #Patents, #DesignLaw & #CivPro at #SuffolkLaw.

Researching & writing about #DesignPatents. Currently thinking a lot about the #ScheduleA phenomenon.

Trying to make #PatentFedi happen.

Coauthor of Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook https://patentlawcasebook.com/

When I'm not thinking about law, I'm usually studying languages (#español, #français & #svenska), reading novels, or watching Netflix.

#tfr

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timbray, (edited ) to random
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Do you know someone with significant quality-of-life problems due to Long Covid?

Boosts appreciated.

ElleGray, to random
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horror writers, start your engines

luckytran, to random
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A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds:

  • masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases

  • N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks

  • mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

andrew, to law
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I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of , , etc.

Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?

@law

archaeohistories, to history
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A 3rd Century AD, Roman Gold Fibula (brooch), stunningly detailed, in the shape of a bee.

At Museo de Cádiz in Spain

jtlg, to random
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What flag will Sam Alito fly next? Wrong answers only. I’ll start.

evacide, to random
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"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

molly0xfff, to ai
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back in my day we called this spyware

drrimmer, to drugs
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US Senators place blame for sky-high drug prices on abuse of the patent system

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/sky-high-drug-prices-senators-blame-patent-abuse-rcna153350

Democrats and Republicans accused drug-makers of taking advantage of patents to keep cheaper competition off the market.

tristansnell, to random
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Trump's entire defense case only lasted 0.0097222 Scaramuccis.

meredithlowry, to random
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Today in design patents:

D1028413 issued for a keepsake.

My apologies to Shakespeare, but a Magic 8 Ball by any other name will still not stop infringements of a fortune-telling sphere.

LpcProf, to random
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A rose from the garden.

jtlg, to random
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If anyone is looking for a guide to thinking through the autonomy implications of Windows AI’s new Recall feature, which records everything you do on your computer by taking a picture every few seconds so the AI can search through your history …

… may I recommend my "Spyware vs. Spyware”?

https://james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles/spyware-vs-spyware.pdf

meredithlowry, to random
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Today in design patents:

D1028113 issued to Nike for a display screen with icon.

OMG WTH is this? I thought the machete juggling was terrifying.

design_law, (edited ) to random
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Will GM file a cert petion?

meredithlowry, to random
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Today in design patents:

D1028414 issued for a piggy bank for a girl.

🙄 🤮

Toys and design patent titles should not be gendered.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

jtlg, to random
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Before anyone starts arguing that what OpenAI did was okay because there's no law against sounding like a celebrity, yes there is! You can't use someone else's recognizable voice in an ad.

Frito-Lay hired a guy to sing like Tom Waits for a Doritos commercial. Lawsuit!

Ford hired one of Bette Midler's backup singers to cover one of her songs for a Mercury Sable ad. Lawsuit!

Louis Prima and Olive Garden, Bert Lahr and Lestoil, Nancy Sinatra and Goodyear Tires. The hits just keep on coming.

miekeroth, to random
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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

jdmccafferty, to random
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Two tulips with two cherries and a bee, Jacob Marrel, 1637 (Rijksmuseum)

historleans, to random
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What kind of dystopian nightmare has UNC Chapel Hill turned into? This is exactly the indoctrinating, authoritarian environment that reactionaries pretend (supposedly liberal) universities are - except that they worship indoctrination and authoritarianism when it meets their goals. The Panopticon is just the Foucauldian cherry on top here. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/05/20/letter-says-unc-chapel-hill-secretly-records

SADLady, to random
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I've been on another hearing call today. Different judge. One that's questioned joinder in Florida courts.

It was going so well, really challenging Plaintiffs counsel about the case. The judge even said I need to figure out a way to deal with these cases because the argument that it save the court time is not true. Tthe clerks are still having to do a lot of the same amount of work that they would do if they filed separately. Particular at default judgement.

🧵

FastCompany, to random
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What deserves to be in a design museum?
https://www.fastcompany.com/91121531/what-deserves-to-be-in-a-design-museum?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Fast Company @fast

mckra1g, to books
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Everyone is at the park! It’s a beautiful evening for reading.

koalie, to random
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#SilentSunday
#lavender

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