IP Blogroll Updated
I’ve updated my IP Blogroll to include more of the IP blogs that I read every week. It is my personal “Best IP Blogs” list. The blogroll can be found here: http://inventblog.com/ip-blogroll. If you...
View ArticleArticles on Email Overload and Social Media 101
Two of my recent articles from the Idaho State Bar’s monthly magazine are online now: Dealing with Email Overload (part I of III) Social Media 101
View ArticleCapturing Intellectual Property – Kickstand Boise Idaho
This month’s Kickstand meeting will cover “Capturing Intellectual Property,” via a presentation lead by Bill Meade and Bob Sesek of BasicIP, an intellectual property consulting firm. For those of you...
View ArticleMotivation 101
Set aside 10 minutes and watch this video (animation) based upon a short lecture by Daniel Pink on “What Motivates Us.” Great insight! I added his book “Drive” to my list of books I recommend to...
View ArticleDealing with E-mail Overload
I recently wrote a three part series of articles for the Idaho State Bar’s magazine regarding how to deal with e-mail overload: Email Overload Part III – Hacking Your Own E-Mail, The Advocate (Official...
View ArticleUSPTO and embedded fonts in Acrobat PDF
The Acrobat for Lawyers blog has a great post talking about “Federal Courts moving to requiring PDF/A for filings.” One of the benefits of PDF/A is that it includes EMBEDDED FONTS. The article...
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Double spacing between sentences
Hi. My name is Steve, and I’m a double spacer. I admit it. I learned to type on an old IBM Selectric® typewriter (the vibrations of which I was sure would make me sterile) when I was in high school....
View ArticleUnsupported PDF specifications and USPTO EFS-Web
There are few things more painful than uploading documents via EFS-Web and receiving the dreaded warning that: The attached PDF file does not follow the supported PDF specifications (Versions 1.1 to...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome and the USPTO
Recently, I’ve been having issues with downloading documents from EFS-Web using Google Chrome. I’m not the only one: Chrome Help Forum – Chrome stopped working to download PDFs from USPTO’s PAIR web...
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Using Windows Calculator with dates
How in the world did I not know this? If you have the Windows Calculator program running [in Windows Vista, 7 or later], and press “Control +E,” it gives you the ability to calculate the difference...
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