The Red Queen’s Race

This week, I got two amendments, one of them inherited from an examiner who’s on assignment elsewhere in the Patent Office, and one responding to a first action rejection of my own. I did an Office Action in response to one of them, and am working on the other, so I currently have one amendment on my Amended docket, and one affirmance from the Board of Appeals in Paused status on my Expedited docket.

I also did a first action on my oldest Regular New case.

Lawsuit

First Corinthians, Chapter Six: 1. Do any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? . . . 6. But brother goeth to law before brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather be defrauded?

In recent news, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, Jr., is now suing Liberty University for removing him from his position.

Toastmasters Speech

Thursday, I gave an “Inspire Your Audience” speech to USPTO Toastmasters, talking about, among other things, how I had read Henry George’s Progress and Poverty as a teenager, and been inspired. I said that, despite my father’s misgivings, I had majored in physics in college; he thought that I ought to study economics, since I was so interested in that.

I gave the audience a quote from someone else who had majored in physics: “Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation. The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation has many important things to learn from Henry George.” The physicist who said that was Albert Einstein.