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Better Know a New Summer Associate
Colorful Metaphors
The Code
Rules? What Rules?
Those Crazy Patent Attorneys
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Completed "only" half an ironman
Who is Sarah Danley?
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The "metes and bounds" of the invention.
What are patent claims?
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35 U.S.C. 105
What is the Inventions in Outer Space statute?
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The number of interrogatories permitted without leave of the Court.
What is 25?
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1. A hollow mold assembly for the forming of large figures from snow comprising at least two mold sections, each of said mold sections being substantially a mirror image of the other and extending in one piece from the top of the figure to be formed to the bottom, said mold sections being mateable to form a hollow figure, said figure being formed of successively smaller substantially spherical portions, including a base portion, a body portion and a head portion, and at least three large openings formed in said mold sections for the admission and packing of snow to the entire interior of said mold, each of said openings being associated with one of said spherical portions for the easy admission of snow to each respective spherical portion.
What is a snowman? U.S. Patent No. 4,164,341 https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=www.google.com/patents/US4164341.pdf
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Wolverine
Who is Jon Boljesic?
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"Marking trails in the woods"
What is the written description requirement? ""It is an old custom in the woods to mark trails by making blaze marks on the trees. It is no help in finding a trail or in finding one's way through the woods where the trails have disappeared--or have not yet been made, which is more like the case here--to be confronted simply by a large number of unmarked trees. Appellants are pointing to trees. We are looking for blaze marks which single out particular trees. We see none ..." In re Ruschig, 379 F.2d 990 (CCPA 1967).
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35 U.S.C. 284
What is the damages statute?
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The number of days allowed to file a response to a motion to dismiss for lack of standing.
What is 21?
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What is a Doll Urn? U.S. Patent No. 7,627,935
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Lived outside of the U.S.
Who are Diane Ghrist, Kajal Chowdhury, Sarah Danley, Joshua Galgano, and Stephen Merrill?
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A way of saying that claims should be interpreted consistently for purposes of infringement and validity.
What is a "nose of wax." White v. Dunbar, 119 U.S. 47 (1886)
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35 U.S.C. 297
What is the Improper and Deceptive Promotion statute?
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The number of requests for admissions that are permitted under the Federal Rules?
How many do you want?
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A velvet type fabric comprising a foundation structure including a plurality of weft threads, a plurality of warp threads, and a plurality of auxiliary warp threads of a synthetic resin material in the form of raised pile threads, the ends of at least part of said raised pile threads being in the form of material-engaging hooks.
What is velcro? U.S. Patent No. 2,717,437, "De Mestral" http://www.google.com/patents?id=FR9MAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Eagle Scouts
Who are Steve Merrill and Brian Cannon?
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A way of saying that reasonable royalty analysis may consider facts occurring after the date of the hypothetical negotiation.
What is the "Book of Wisdom"? Sinclar Ref. Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co, 289 U.S., 689 1993)
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35 U.S.C. 292
What is the false marking statute?
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The Federal Rule governing the use of depositions in court proceedings.
What is Rule 32?
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1. A device for engaging and disengaging a series of two-part clasps upon a shoe or other article, consisting of a guide-block, having two guide-ways, which are separated atone end thereof, and converge into a single guide-way, at the other end thereof, said guideways being adapted to engage and carry the interlocking parts of the clasps into or out of engagement with each other, as the block is moved forward or backward over the same, substantially as described.
What is a zipper? CLASP LOCKER OR UNLOCKER FOR SHOES, U.S. Patent No. 504,038 http://www.google.com/patents?id=C9VHAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Has an advanced degrees.
Who are Dr. Brian Cannon, Dr. Kajal Chowdhury, Sarah Danley, Dr. Joshua Galgano, Dr. David Knapp, and Christopher Stabler.
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"Upon an application to stay waste, relief will not be refused on the ground that, as the defendant had been allowed to cut down half of the trees upon the complainant's land, he had acquired by that negligence the right to cut down the remainder."
What is laches? Menendez v. Holt, 128 U.S. 514 (1888)
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21 U.S.C. 355
What is the Hatch-Waxman Act?
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For a civil action pending in the Eastern District of Virginia, a deposition of a third-party residing in Washington D.C. must occur....
Where is Virginia or Washington DC?
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1. A novelty amusement eating device for supporting, containing, rotating and sculpting a food portion of malleable consistency during consumption comprising: a) a housing adapted to be grasped and supported by a person's hand, said housing being substantially cone-shaped simulating the appearance of a common edible pastry cone; b) a cup rotatable supported by said housing, said cup being adapted to receive and contain a food portion of substantially malleable consistency, said food portion having a periphery or outer surface; and c) a drive mechanism supported by said housing, said drive mechanism including rotating means for imparting a rotary motion upon said cup, said rotary motion providing feeding means for rotationally feeding said periphery of said food portion against a person's outstretched tongue.
What is a motorized ice cream cone? U.S. Patent No. 5,971,829 https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=www.google.com/patents/US5971829.pdf