This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court

The third (and final) piece in my series on patent claims that reference other claims: www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

El Faro gathered 27 testimonies of survivors of Bukele’s prisons. None of them belonged to a gang; they were teachers, campesinos, fishermen, saleswomen, and workers. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...

Bold action is not necessarily a good thing. www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

IP Fam- if you have any good examples of patent apps/patents which were rejected/invalidated for being obvious (whether they overcame that or not), I would love to see them! I'd like to go through some with my students in class, but don't have a good collection of my own yet. Thanks in advance!

U.S. PTO director John Squires announced he will determine whether the office's PTAB will hear challenges to the validity of specific patents, taking on a responsibility that had been delegated to board judges since its creation in 2012. @denniscrouch.bsky.social www.uspto.gov/sites/defaul...

My thoughts on the proposed IPR rule changes: www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

It's not the most glaring example of violating the law going on right now, but the PTO has issued an NPRM on IPR discretionary denial. 1) It is completely contrary to the statute that created IPR. 2) It does not appear to have gone through the required EO12866 process (even the non-signif version).

Painful to hear the fear in her voice as she says, "let them know." And as others have noted, this seems to violate Judge Ellis's order issued just yesterday about arresting journalists & also about unnecessary physical force. (See 1(a) and 1(h) of order). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

USTPO Ending After-Hours Customer Service Window: www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

From patent examiners: new performance appraisal plan is squeezing examiners, providing less time for interviews, and 0.5 counts less per PPH application. www.reddit.com/r/patentexam...

Let them eat lobster? www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

🚨 Hearing that RIF notices have gone out at the patent office. If you work in the federal government and you get a RIF notice along with your furlough, please let me know! I will keep you anonymous. You can reach me on Signal at annakramer.54

The grift continues. Those new, out-of-the-blue 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals? You can avoid them if you just agree to sell your drugs through . . . TrumpRX www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

The new USPTO Director weighs in on 101: www.rennerotto.com/resources/bl...

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...