One of my pastimes is trying to guess which sound bites, if uttered at a cocktail party, might lead to the turning of heads and might lead to other party guests clustering around with great interest. (See past blog articles.) Here is another: diatomic carbon.
Okay three’s a pattern. Now we are up to the third time in recent days that I am writing a blog article directed to some particular word that I think is interesting. We talked about “regolith” and we talked about “orthostat“. Today’s word is “anosmia”. Anosmia is a word that we sort of wish we …
I guess two is not quite enough for a pattern, we need three for a pattern. But here is a second word that has something to do with rocks. A good word to save up because someday, and I promise this, life will be back to normal and there will be cocktail parties and salon …
When I was in college, long before most readers of this blog were born, I was a double major in physics and mathematics. There was a fairly predictable path of eight physics courses over four years for the physics major, and a fairly predictable path of eight math courses over four years for the math …
This blog article talks about “power over ethernet” or POE. Those who are affected by work-from-home arrangements might find it helpful to learn a little bit about POE even if you have not been trained in electrical engineering. This article talks a little bit about POE.
Hello dear readers. What a relief it is, when so many things that are happening around us clamor for our attention, that we can sometimes return to pleasant and diverting discussions of some of the more important things in life. A chief example for today being the ingredient lists for two beverages that I discussed …
Yesterday I offered a quiz to my loyal readers. Which readers could figure out what these four things had in common? Today I announce the winners and I offer some discussion and explanation as to how these four things are really very nearly exactly the same.
(Please also see a followup blog article here.) Those who make use of Private PAIR and EFS-Web are accustomed to USPTO’s very clunky way of accomplishing two-factor authentication, namely the poorly designed Entrust Java Applet (EJA). USPTO has now formally announced (see excerpt at right from a slide in a USPTO webinar yesterday) that it …
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Just a reminder that the USPTO will be closed on Monday, February 16. This is Washington’s Birthday* which is a federal holiday. Anything that you might need to do by February 16 to satisfy some USPTO due date may be postponed until Tuesday, February 17 and will still be timely.
As a reminder, the European Patent Office will present “PCT at the EPO”, a two-day educational program. This will be Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2 at the EPO office at the Hague. One session is “National Phase at the USPTO”. The speakers for that session will be Michael Neas of the USPTO and …
