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Me, walking into @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to inspect the spread @caitcoker.bsky.social has out for my class’ visit Me: Wow a 1st American edition of *Moby Dick* in which someone pasted newspaper articles about whaling & reviews of the book Me: do we know who pasted these? CC: um, Herman Me: 🤯

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 4h

A reminder that my clinic is hiring! If you want to build a future for hopeful tech, come join us.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 8h

A new thing that I hate: I’m reading a book right now that uses endnote citations, and directs the reader to SCAN A QR CODE to access the endnotes.

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Dan Levy's Iconic 'Absolutely Not' Moment

Alt: Dan Levy's Iconic 'Absolutely Not' Moment

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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 5h

To be expected. Same jerk who disrespected the Wu Tang Clan.

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 5h

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David A. Simon @davidasimon.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking about writing a substack targeted at Q&A for juniors. What questions would you like to have addressed? - workshops? - writing? - teaching? - building a profile? what else?

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 6h

how would we know? we never really have (and i'd suggest we don't really want) direct evidence of what's happening inside people's heads at the prosecution stage. on this record, at least, it looks like registrant has a not insubstantial amount of use tsdr.uspto.gov/documentview...

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 6h

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 7h

Just passing by when this little beauty caught my eye.

A stairwell landing with a vintage tile floor with patterned hexagon tile center and patterned square tile border.

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 7h

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152320 issued for a soft baked snack food. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152368 issued for syndactyl footwear. If I have to know this is a thing, you should too. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152376 issued for footwear. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152444 issued for a bag. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152499 issued for wallpaper. Some color claims are just ugly. #DesignPatents

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 7h

cats are the most ornamental of creatures

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152617 issued for an egg poacher. The number of designs featuring cats greatly exceeds all other animal designs. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152633 issued for a tea filter. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152802 issued for a bottle cap. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152865 issued for a pineapple character figurine. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1152948 issued for a striped vehicle body. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1153301 issued for a ground compactor. I don't normally post the machines, but the color claim on this one intrigued me. Until I saw it. I'm all for attempts to claim a color for a machine, but I don't think this one will work as trade dress after the design expires.

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1153349 issued for an interactive robot. Design patents show a lot of trends and the increase in robot designs each week is an interesting one. This was the only cute one. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1153397 issued for a wearable device. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1153421 issued for three dimensional greeting card. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Today in design patents: D1153435 issued for a combined garment holder and shirt. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Today in design patents: D1153450 issued for a cannabis smoking game. The applicant is aptly named Bong Pong. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Today in design patents: D1153500 issued for a fascia tissue fitness device. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Today in design patents: D1153437 issued for a unicorn exercise game. I'm confused what's going on here, but as long time followers probably suspect, I'm a sucker for unicorns and sparkles. #DesignPatents

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 8h

Clothing claims in particular seem to be awash with synonyms, where an applicant selling one style of pants can appropriately select all of the following from the ID Manual: pants jeans dungarees bottoms as clothing denim pants denim jeans work pants long pants pants for adults . . .

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Today in design patents: D1153783 issued for a panelized circular home. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Today in design patents: D1153854 issued for a part of lamp. Departing from the normal use of color as a claim, the blue area illustrates the portions that are NOT claimed. #DesignPatents

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 8h

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Today in design patents: D1153913 issued for a perfume bottle. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Today in design patents: D1153943 issued for a pet bed. It's subtle, but yes, there's a color claim for this one. #DesignPatents

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Tuesday! We have an abnormally large amount of new designs - 1,723! - and it's unseasonably warm in the South, so let's manifest some cold with D1152336 issued today for a snowman costume. #DesignPatents

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, hey, look what got added to the Trademark Manual of Acceptable Goods and Services last Thursday.

" (SI) software, which a certain President has declared the only non-treasonous way to refer to AI.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 9h

Because you all deserve something good today: Allan Rohan Crite's luminous & deeply felt "Streetcar Madonna," 1946. Crite was an African-American artist & illustrator based in the Boston area whose work consistently celebrated his religious faith

Image of a streetcar interior, with a Black Madonna and child seated at center, amidst a group of white passengers. The two women seated behind the central religious figures seem to glare or cast disapproving glances

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