You’ve put time, money, and energy into your invention. You filed a patent application. The examiner responded and rejected it. Not because someone already invented the exact same thing, but because the examiner wrote something like: “Claims 1–10 are rejected…

The USPTO recently announced a procedural change: starting May 13, 2025, the time between a patent’s Issue Notification and the official Grant Date will be reduced from approximately three weeks to two. On the surface, this may seem like a…

A recent appeals court decision, Thaler v. Perlmutter, reaffirmed that under current U.S. copyright law, only human-created works can receive copyright protection. The court upheld the Copyright Office’s longstanding position that human authorship is a fundamental requirement for copyright eligibility.…

For years, the race in artificial intelligence has been defined by one word: scale. Bigger models, more parameters, larger datasets. Every major leap—whether it was OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, or DeepMind’s latest advancements—has relied on throwing more computational power at…

The Southern Food and Beverage Museum is Open! Here are some pics (and, their library is pretty cool… with a 1918 edition of Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cookbook and Modernist Cuisine within about 10 feet of each other). [nggallery…