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On August 6, 2024, the PTAB issued its first written decision applying a new test for obviousness of design patents. In Next Step Group, Inc. v. Deckers Outdoor Corp., IPR2024-00525, Paper 16 (P.T.A.B...
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As one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, Brazil has long been a natural research powerhouse. In fields such as pharmaceuticals, it is common to study the genome of plants, animals and mic...
China is quietly limiting the natural graphite it exports globally, one of 20 'critical minerals' the US is entirely reliant on China for. I talk to suppliers trying desperately to move their supply chains elsewhere. It isn't easy. www.npr.org/2024/09/28/n...
China mines and refines some of the most sought after minerals the U.S. deems critical for technologies like semiconductors and electric cars. Yet moving the minerals' production away from China isn't so easy.
Slugs for salt: images.app.goo.gl/b1eGDcokWBE9...
This challenge (in Colorado! š) to the Copyright Officeās fairly well-founded denial of copyright to an AI-generated image is slightly less weird than the Thaler case that the DC court shut down already but I would be fairly surprised if it goes anywhere
Here is an interesting, though narrow decision from a German court deciding whether ML copying a photographic image violates copyright of the owner: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/09/gues...
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A tenet of white kristian nationalism appears to be that American Exceptionalismā trumps any biblical teachings.