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Digging in to the USPTO FOIA 2014 log

posted on 2 November, 2014 also tagged , ,

The USPTO has released a log of the FOIA requests it has processed in the fiscal year 2014 in response to a request I submitted early last month. 1The US government’s fiscal calendar runs October to October, so FY2014 has been over for a month. Looking through these logs is interesting because you can start […]

Copying and creativity at day one of XOXO

posted on 15 September, 2012 also tagged , , ,

The talks at day one of the XOXO festival have been incredibly high quality: actual innovators and creators of disruptive media and technology have relayed their experiences of eliminating middlemen and charting new territory for success. It’s just amazing to see what a cool group of people have come together for this event. One common […]

Patenting away an open science opportunity

posted on 28 August, 2012 also tagged , , , ,

By almost any measure, Jack Andraka, the 15-year-old science prodigy from Maryland, should be a hero of the open science movement. After all, he has gotten a lot of well-deserved attention in the past few months for his work developing a new test for pancreatic cancer. By his own estimates, the test he developed is […]