Speaking at AIPLA’s Patent Prosecution Boot Camp

I’ll be speaking this April at the AIPLA Patent Prosecution Boot Camp.  This two-day seminar is tailored to new practitioners (those having less than two years of experience), or others who want to learn the basics of patent application preparation and prosecution. This seminar includes instructional sessions and hands-on claim drafting workshops.

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How to minimize service disruption with a notebook computer

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These days my notebook computer is absolutely mission critical for me.  If my notebook computer were to fail and if it were to take some days to get it repaired, the loss of use of the computer for those days would be a really big problem.  Fortunately, a few years ago I figured out how to reduce any service disruption due to a computer failure to just about zero.

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What “MP3” means

mp3-image-2I checked into a hotel recently where the clock radio in the guest room had a conventional 3½-millimeter plug (see photo) which could be plugged into the guest’s smart phone or music player.  This would permit playing music through the speaker of the clock radio.  What I found amusing is what the manufacturer chose to write on the clock to let the user know about this feature — “MP3”.  This is silly.

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Adopting a digital wallet redux

In a previous blog post I urged you to adopt a digital wallet.  Players in the digital wallet arena are falling by the wayside, but this leave unchanged the important reason why you should adopt a digital wsoftcardallet, namely that bad guys won’t be able to skim your credit card number as they would with your use of a swiped mag-stripe card.  Most strikingly the digital wallet that I adopted, Softcard, has bitten the dust.  Appropriately for this blog, nobody actually purchased the ill-fated Softcard.  Instead someone merely purchased its intellectual property.

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