10Jun

You can’t live forever

By Rich Baker https://player.vimeo.com/video/575967758 As much as we don’t like to think about it, none of us will live forever. To protect our legacies, we can buy life insurance for our families, and prepare wills for the orderly transition of our financial affairs to our loved ones....
30Oct

The Claim Contingency: How If-Then Language Can Sink a Patent

Edward Ryan Conditional language seems like a natural choice for describing computer-based inventions. The if-then structure mimics computer logic, allowing an algorithm to be translated directly into the claims. But, thanks to a counter-intuitive and inconsistently applied principle of claim interpretation, using this language can result...