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Update: the replacement of the window regulator has been accomplished (blog article).
One of my current projects is to replace the window regulator in the driver’s side door of my car. Continue reading “Replacing a vehicle window regulator”
Hello dear readers. You already know that there are PCT seminars coming up at four patent offices (San Jose, Denver, Dallas, and Detroit). And you already know that yours truly will be among the faculty for these four seminars. The big news today is that I am pleased to see that CLE accreditation has been obtained for the seminars in the Denver patent office (click here) and the Dallas patent office (click here).
For more information, or to register for any of these four one-day seminars, click here.
I also encourage you to attend my upcoming 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport, and the related half-day seminar on PCT docketing (click here). This will be September 30 to October 2, 2025. These seminars have also been CLE-accredited (click here and here).
Over the course of many decades I have loosened and tightened motor vehicle lug nuts hundreds of times. I have always done this with hand tools.
Now I have a big cordless ½-inch drive impact wrench and maybe now I will not be stuck having to use hand tools for lug nuts.
All of a sudden I have no choice but to think about “torque sticks”. Maybe you have strong feelings about torque sticks, in which case please post a comment below. Maybe you have never heard of torque sticks. Loyal readers know exactly where this is going. What follows is a prolonged discussion of torque sticks as they related to big cordless ½-inch drive impact wrenches. Continue reading “Torque sticks and big cordless ½-inch drive impact wrenches”
Maybe you have bufferbloat, perhaps not being directly aware of it. In a local area network (LAN) suffering from bufferbloat, the network can become practically unusable for many interactive applications like voice over IP (VoIP), media streaming, online gaming, and even ordinary web browsing. This can happen no matter how much money you spend to get high-speed service from your ISP (internet service provider).
If you have bufferbloat, then the thing to do is to take the protective measure of installing and using SQM (“Smart Queue Management”) in your data router. It might turn out that your data router is unable to do SQM in which case you might want to upgrade your router.
How can you figure out whether you have bufferbloat? How can you fix it?
This blog article talks about these things. Continue reading “Do you have bufferbloat?”
It will be recalled that I rescheduled my PCT seminars to new dates, namely September 30 to October 2, 2025 (click here for more information or to register). I commented (see blog article) that this was for a very fun and interesting reason that I hoped to write about presently. Now I will tell you the fun and interesting reason why I rescheduled my PCT seminars — it was to enable four PCT/ePCT training opportunities at which I will be a speaker.
Here is a remarkable opportunity to get a day of PCT training in any of four locations:
The faculty for these one-day seminars includes people from WIPO and from the USPTO and yours truly.
These seminars are free of charge and they offer a remarkable opportunity for live and in-person training from WIPO people and USPTO people and from yours truly.
You can download the program here. To register, click here.
I also invite you to attend my 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar:
For more information, or to register, click here.
I also invite you to attend my half-day live in-person seminar on PCT docketing:
For more information, or to register, click here.
(The purpose of this posting is to let you know that I have changed the dates for these upcoming PCT seminars. They were previously set for September 9-11, 2025. I have rescheduled the seminars to take place three weeks later, namely September 30 to October 2, 2025. This is for a very fun and interesting reason that I hope to write about presently.)
Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport. Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT.
Seminar dates: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 to Thursday, October 2, 2025.
For more information, or to register, click here.
Hello dear readers.
Just now sort of by accident I stumbled upon a WIPO web page External PCT Training Resources. I don’t know how long it has been there, but just now is when I saw it for the first time.
This page lists over two dozen recorded lectures on a wide variety of PCT and ePCT topics. For each recorded lecture there is a link to a recording of the lecture and a link to a PDF of the presentation materials.
I am fascinated and honored to see that nearly all of the links are for lectures presented by yours truly.
Meanwhile if you would like to attend an upcoming live in-person PCT seminar in beautiful Colorado, click here.
Update! These seminars have been rescheduled and will now take place on Tuesday, September 30 to Thursday, October 2, 2025.
Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport. Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT.
Seminar dates: Tuesday, September 9 30, 2025 to Thursday, September 11 October 2, 2025.
For more information, or to register, click here.
Hello, dear readers. I have just published three new articles about various home automation challenges and successes:
If you have comments on any of the three articles, please post them below.
“They’ve cut us off at the knees!” is what I heard a few days ago from a USPTO representative in one of the USPTO’s call centers. Continue reading ““They’ve cut us off at the knees!” — USPTO call center employee”