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I am delighted to see US patent number Des. 1046783 which issued on October 15, 2024. Its figure 1 appears at right.
What delights me is that one of the References Cited in this US patent is an article from my blog. Continue reading “A patent that cites this blog!”
Recently I have had reason to try to learn a bit about a type of AI (artificial intelligence) called machine learning. It turns out that sometimes a researcher in this area will encounter the Helvetica scenario, which is a phenomenon where a machine learning model gradually degrades due to errors coming from uncurated training on the outputs of another model, including prior versions of itself. The Helvetica scenario, also called “Model Collapse” (Wikipedia article) is a common problem when training generative adversarial networks (GANs) (Machine Learning Glossary). The natural question for the reader is where this terminology came from? Continue reading “The Helvetica Scenario”
I just released the second edition of my book Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing. Amazon says this book is now the #1 best seller in Adult & Continuing Education. Not only that, but if you purchase this book, I will receive a royalty of about $48. As of right now, you would only have to pay about $21 to purchase the book from the US Amazon.com site. Continue reading “Now #1 best seller on Amazon in Adult & Continuing Education”
Hello readers. I just released the second edition of Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing. Like the original edition, it is priced at $89 and I earn a royalty of about $48 per book. But what I don’t understand is that Amazon has placed this book on sale for about $21. Continue reading “Odd Amazon pricing for second edition of my PCT Forms and Docketing book”
Hello readers. If you paid a government fee to the USPTO during any of the times listed below, and if you tried to protect yourself by authorizing any later fees due to be drawn from your USPTO Deposit Account, apparently your effort to protect yourself has failed. Continue reading “USPTO makes mistake with Deposit Account authorizations”
The mail room at the USPTO is, politely stated, a striking example of a service failure. Continue reading “USPTO mail room works unacceptably slowly”
Why should you attend my live, in-person PCT seminar in January? Continue reading “Why you should attend my live, in-person PCT seminar in January”
A few days ago I got to see Apex, which is thought to be the largest and one of the most complete stegosaurus specimens ever uncovered. I am sure that most museumgoers had the same reaction I had, which was a sense of profound wonder at the fact that the stegosaurus (and indeed nearly all dinosaurs) had a radius and ulna below the elbow of each forelimb, exactly like humans (and nearly all mammals), and had a tibia and fibula below the knee of each hindlimb, again exactly like humans.
Given that dinosaurs and mammals are different branches of the evolutionary family tree, separated for tens of millions of years, how can this possibly have worked out this way? Continue reading “Why dinosaurs and humans both have a radius and ulna”
It will be recalled that there was a webinar yesterday (November 26) about Making best use of PCT Declarations in your PCT application. Unfortunately there were some technical problems at various points during the webinar. I will thus be reprising the webinar on Tuesday, December 10. For more information, or to register, visit https://blog.oppedahl.com/pct-webinars/ .