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Amy Landers

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Intellectual property, law specialist, and professor of law Fourth edition of Understanding Patent Law (revised and updated) cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531029…

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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 35m
On whether I'M FINE/I'M NOT FINE fails to function as a mark www.beautyindependent.com/megababe-kat...
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Matthew Sag @matthewsag.bsky.social · 3h
My book on copyright and AI is free to read at aicropyright.ai because i thought the url was cute
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 7h
Hi Rich---kindly keep in mind that both rollneck for sweaters and barn jacket for a type of jacket are likely generic descriptors. Many companies use these to designate a style of sweater/jacket. I agree with Jonathan's analysis.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 21h
Via Coke Morgan Stewart's LinkedIn lnkd.in/p/eYF3t28B
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 21h
Quite an image in support of the Director's decision to limit IPR
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's something off about the left image. The hand is not crisply focused; the lighting on the clear opening and its reflections are very sharp. As they are on the same plane relative to the "lens", they should be the same level of sharpness.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is it really editing if I'm replacing more than half the text?
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So much for borders-- Two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa applications through a form available on the State Department’s website. All the applications were incomplete and were not processed, they said. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Start-Up That Wants to Build ‘Microrobots’ With A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/s...
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The Start-Up That Wants to Build ‘Microrobots’ With A.I.
Atomic Machines is training artificial intelligence on materials and designs — and then using it to build tiny physical devices.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Some bad things” is so 7-year-old coded
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how"
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The Federal ​Trade Commission is opening a sweeping probe into Anthropic, ‌OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover the potential dangers their ​technology poses to consumers" www.reuters.com/business/ftc...
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FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI, source says
The Federal ​Trade Commission ​plans to issue formal demands for ​information and compel testimony from executives at top AI developers.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
J Crew has been using the TM designation on ROLLNECK and BARN JACKET to signal iconic status. Unless I'm missing something, they have no registrations for either. Nice hypo if you're doing Booking.com anytime soon.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're running into the Noerr Pennington doctrine speedbump. Will be interesting to track. Thanks
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Left, but they're both nice
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think deco had its moment in the 70s again. I’m sure it’ll be back.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Patent drafting using AI: "Foundational expertise may be a prerequisite for extracting durable skill from AI-assisted practice." www.nber.org/papers/w35720
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Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This just confounds me. The mountains of California are no joke. Back to books for me!
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At the conclusion of the rescue, the men told a Sheriff’s Deputy they had relied heavily on Google’s Gemini AI about the route and what to pack for their trip. This was a critical misstep. www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...
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Hikers rescued from California's Mount Shasta after ascent planned with incorrect AI information
Three novice hikers became stranded after their AI-planned ascent to the summit turned into a multi-day ordeal requiring a rescue operation.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...
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In a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court Rules (Gift Article)
In a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Does anyone know the VARA situation? www.notus.org/metro/kenned...
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Kennedy Center Removes ‘Beloved’ Sculpture From Its Grounds
The center did not announce the move ahead of time.
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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.ptablitigationblog.com/design-paten...
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Design Patents at the PTAB: Over a Decade of Data Reveals the Real Odds - PTAB Litigation Blog
By John Evans and Tyler Fertel* – It’s been a decade since we first reported early statistics on design patent IPR/PGR outcomes.  Time for an update—and the numbers tell an interesting story.  Design ...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Operation Bluebird to launch using Twitter TM at twitter.now, claiming the marks have been abandoned. Musk sues and seeks preliminary injunction. Court ruling due soon. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
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Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Excellent piece. @mblawrence.bsky.social @ormerod.bsky.social this resonates strongly with the decomposing AI systems work
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
On using song lyrics phrasing as a mark, here for the classes coffee and teas.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you'd like to do a hypo on the Van Leeuwen/Rebel packaging case. Full opinion on the merits here: cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Rebel Ice Cream Files for Bankruptcy After Van Leeuwen Wins Packaging Suit www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/b...
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Rebel Ice Cream Files for Bankruptcy After Van Leeuwen Wins Packaging Suit (Gift Article)
The announcement comes less than a month after a federal judge ordered Rebel to pay nearly $24 million to Van Leeuwen for copying the design of its containers.
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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.engadget.com/2237547/meta...
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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction - Engadget
Dozens of states accuse the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Is this posted anywhere? would love to read
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Or even the 1700's www.livescience.com/19807-earlie...
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Earliest Painting of Transvestite Uncovered
A painting thought to be of a woman wearing a feather in her hat is actually a portrait of Chevalier D'Eon, an 18th-century transvestite.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New Instagram logo dropped
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 06/08/2026
Law graduates who were unable to take Washington state’s July bar exam due to technological problems will have the option to be licensed to practice without ever taking the test, the Supreme Court of Washington said Thursday.
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Washington allows some law grads to skip bar exam after botched test
Law graduates who were unable to take Washington state’s July bar exam due to technological problems will have the option to be licensed to practice without ever taking the test, the ​Supreme Court of Washington said Thursday.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nice to be back at IPSC to hear thoughtful papers about IP and reconnect with scholars (and meet others)
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hank Greene's statement on the reasons he won't use AI to assist in content creation any more.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“At least six of Ms. Rashid’s clients were barred from attending their own separation board hearings because they refused to cut their hair and appear in the uniform of their sex assigned at birth”. GIFT LINK Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Agree plus the openings in Fall are more staggered
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
600-plus people in one room trying to get onto the same network at the same time to take an exam that runs entirely through the NCBE’s software. Options: possible re-take in Sept. 2026 or Feb. 2027, alternatively a refund/withdraw. abovethelaw.com/2026/07/wash...
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Washington Just Called Off Its Entire Bar Exam - Above the Law
Six hours of tech troubles, no questions answered, and a class of grads told to put their lives on hold until September.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Its amazing that state bars have generations of data on long term outcomes. Are they kept entirely confidential (not just scrubbed for identifying information) so there are no studies on these questions?
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
patent law catching strays
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In the end, I'm reading all the lit anyway. It's taught me that nothing beats excellent search skills without AI.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The LLM chat. I literally say, hey can you verify that direct quote that you just gave me? And 99% of the time, it says oh sorry won't happen again (it will). I don't need to physically look things up, let the LLM do that and correct itself.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Is a quote looks too on-the-nose, especially if its from the most respected journal in your field, don't even look it up. Just ask "are you sure this is a direct quote?" because it isn't. You have to verify everything like it's 1990, when human error was the only problem. Every word.
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thoughts about word limits and exams in an age of AI by @matthewsag.bsky.social matthewsag.com/ai-accommoda...
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AI, Accommodations, and Assessment Integrity – Matthew Sag
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Probably should be teaching journalists to ask some version of this question at appropriate times
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Overview of the debate over regulation of China’a open source AI, open source history, and competitive analysis open.substack.com/pub/p3instit...
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From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Settled
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/07/2026
France passed a landmark law on Tuesday restricting access to social media for anyone under 15, the first European country to do so, and the latest in a wave of nations acting against what they view as malign effects of such services on minors. nyti.ms/4fKPJoq
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's another Coke rebrand
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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
EU ban on the destruction of unsold goods took effect yesterday www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/p...
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European Union: European Commission Adopts New ESPR Measures | Insight | Baker McKenzie
EU adopts new ESPR measures outlining disclosure requirements and derogations for destroying unsold consumer goods.
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