An ICE agent threw a mom to the ground. You know how she can file a complaint with DHS? SHE CAN'T. Trump closed that office. www.propublica.org/article/home...

Just to piss off Nexstar, Sinclair, and Trump. Linking to the Kimmel YouTube video which has nearly 3 million views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Monday is a good time for a little patent law history: www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

Everything old is new again. from @lauraannegilman.bsky.social

The Federal Circuit's recent opinion in an AIA derivation: www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

PSA: Public records should be public. You should not have to prove your identity to view patent file wrappers or to access the pretty color design patents.

Whatever happened to the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC)?

Just before Labor Day, US patent examiners have been stripped of their union.

Even the course through the USPTO of a simple invention such as a lockable lunch bag can be interesting and informative. www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

Ever wonder where's the last place to file with the USPTO by Priority Mail Express or with a certificate of mailing? www.rennerotto.com/spotlight/po...

AI Assistants for USPTO Examiners: sam.gov/opp/325520a2...

Okay, this is wild. The government is arguing that it cannot produce copies of standards that it is using to promulgate regulations, because those are *copyrighted,* and therefore claims they're exempt as "trade secrets." FOIA folks: does this feel like a misuse of Exemption 4, or am I nuts?

Hey! Press covering Trump! The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies. He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.” Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

Ground one: "There's no state of war" John Yoo⬇️

Ground four: It's illegal to send migrants to be tortured in El Salvadorian prisons John Yoo⬇️

Update: the Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Park System by $900 million, about one third of its budget.

This is insane. 25% of your performance rating is "do you suck up enough to the president." If you don't pledge fealty to the Fuehrer, you will not have a job for long.

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

Easy to be flippant, but Trump going on the record to tell the media he is not in control of his govt and is being misinformed by advisors. Someone else is running the country.

One point that's going to get lost in the discussion of #SCOTUS's intervention in the Alien Enemy Act case: This is the *value* of nationwide injunctions. Without them, you have to go district by district, and the government can try to play games by moving people to districts without relief (yet).

Last transmission from Earth: “Maggie Haberman reports that the launch code was a ‘mistake’, DOGE intern to blame.”

URGENT: Our client at Bluebonnet Facility in the Northern District of Texas, represented by the @ACLU, was told he’ll be removed under the Alien Enemies Act TONIGHT/MORNING

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

USPTO announces new fraud mitigation group, which I will hereafter refer to as "Fraud Patrol":

who among us does not remember how europe was so dead set on invading iraq?

USPTO to suspend expedited examination of design applications as of April 17, 2025. www.uspto.gov/sites/defaul...

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.

Steven Miller’s new theory, that a "saboteur," "Democrat" DOJ atty invented the idea that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly removed to CECOT—is false. The error was admitted, on 3/31, by Robert Cerna, an ICE acting field office director: 1/3 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Morning everyone #MomSky Today Defying the Supreme Court He openly welcomes El Salvador's DICTATOR Bukeke .. More incarcerated to be shipped off to El Salvador ? Kilmer Abrego Garcia still sits in prison We're beyond a Constitutional Crisis

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If the Attorney General orders a DOJ lawyer to lie in court, should he refuse the order? NYC Bar Opinion 2025 addresses situations where a government lawyer is asked to lie or engage in other unethical conduct by a political appointee or … (cont.) lnkd.in/e875V58G #law #lawsky

If you need to cure your vote and can't afford to because of barriers getting to your election office or getting a valid ID, DM me.

Another important thing about 3rd country removals. The government just told the Supreme Court at argument on March 24 in a separate case that it believes it has to inform people if they're being deported to a 3rd country so that they can apply for protection. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Oh, also, re the El Salvador concentration camp, Wong Wing v. United States, 163 U.S. 228 (1896), by the way. The punitive imprisonment even of removable immigrants without trial has been clearly established to be unconstitutional for over a century.

Hey, can I share some historical context with you about “race-baiter” Ebrahim Rasool? When I see a South African who’s a little older, I always check what they were doing before 1990. 🧐 Found something surprising: As a boy, Rasool and his family were expelled from District Six.

The Washington Post got ahold of the formal immigration charges earlier, so that isn’t at issue here. I will note, however, that this document has a bunch of weird issues which suggests it was thrown together somewhat haphazardly.

Whoever came up with the idea of a strategic national bitcoin reserve was higher than giraffe ears

Need a break? Need a smile? Need to dance? Watch Nile Rodgers @nilerodgers.bsky.social & CHIC A fantastic, joyous Tiny Desk Concert for @npr.org. ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRER...

Check out @design-law.bsky.social Patent Law: What, Like it’s Hard? (reviewing Amanda Levendowski, “Hard Truths About ‘Soft IP’”) in @jotwell.bsky.social‬ https://buff.ly/3QbitsW #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #WomeninAcademia

BREAKING: The USPTO withdraws its earlier proposed revision of terminal disclaimer practice after receiving hundreds of comments in opposition. The Federal Register notice will publish tomorrow, but is available here: www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...