Yeah. But also, what exactly would it mean for a business to have one of these? Just form a U.S. subsidiary like a normal corporation.

Optimism/pessimism and awareness/ignorance, maybe? Plenty of folks in all four corners of that graph.

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He’s 29 (per SLC Tribune story). DHS says he entered in 2007 on a tourist visa.

So he entered when he was 11.

Entirely possible that the number is 2+8, or 5+5, or whatever, but people seemed to be looking past the “there is a finite amount of time people can spend taking classes.”

(I wish I could just keep getting university degrees, sounds like an amazing way to spend a lot of time, but alas: bills.)

I also work in an advocacy profession and I don’t think I’d agree, but pretty sure neither of us is bringing evidence here. That said: that was not my point. My point was that that’s the choice in question, not “is poetry useful at all.”

It might. I’d even say it probably will!

But that’s not really the question. The question is really: will it make you a better prose writer than the same amount of time spent on prose writing?

After the past ~nine months, that seems like a load bearing “assuming good faith.”

But absolutely agree that ignoring the law entirely isn’t within the scope of proper discretion; if only CAFC would realize that they absolutely can act here without running afoul of the statute.

The alternative would be to try to specify what does and doesn't constitute the proper exercise of discretion. But the current situation, where the Director can simply ignore a large part of patent law because he doesn't like it, is intolerable. end/🧵

I do wonder if your fix would actually solve the issue of over-deference or if courts would just fall back on “discretion” to avoid the problem.

TBH we should just strip the appellate bar entirely. If a patentee wants to appeal institution and get a decision on it after there’s a FWD, have fun?

Honestly the culprit is the massive misreading of that provision starting from Cuozzo and culminating in Thryv: no sane court should have ever read it to bar challenges to the rules surrounding institution. But water under the bridge at this point.

Like… compare the difference between a DOS CLI and Windows 95.

The closest comparable shift in interaction metaphor in recent history is probably the shift towards AI usage?

I think part of it is that the metaphors we used for interaction with computers changed in much bigger ways as we grew up than they have for later generations.

Can’t speak to the success of it but isnt this also the same basic kind of goal for the F-35’s ALIS/ODIN?

Thank god we appointed one PTO Director.

Yep, that was exactly the context.

It wasn’t even a particularly bad analogy!

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