Pishogue

On Thursday, I attended an online meeting of USPTO Toastmasters, serving as Wordmaster, so I provided a word which people were supposed to use in their speeches; the word was pishogue, meaning magic, sorcery, a spell, and it is pronounced “pies hog,” according to an Irish-sounding speaker on YouTube.

The moral of this is that even someone who has a Ph.D. and got a perfect 800 on the verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam can improve his vocabulary by reading Barbara Hambly.

The Red Queen’s Race

No new amendments this week, so I have nothing on my Amended docket, and one Board of Appeals decision on my Special Amended docket; that Special Amended case shouldn’t be there much longer.

I’ve been working on my oldest non-RCE Regular New case, but I’m not finished with it.