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Nate Jacobs
@nacobs.bsky.social
Biotech patent agent (opinions not advice). Craft beer, viruses, urbanism, puns, and board games.
Because a specification may be fixed in time, but if the regular updates to seasonal influenza vaccines evoke one fictional character, it's the Red Queen ("Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place").
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Namely, how claim construction, written description, and enablement might intersect with controversy in defining species or other taxa, reclassifications and emergence of new organisms over a 20-year term, and the depth of conservation of relevant biology.
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
With the examples of bacteria and influenza viruses, the article explores the challenges that evolution (of formal names, knowledge of biodiversity, and organisms themselves) can pose for organism-centered patents, and options for addressing them through taxonomy and phylogenetics.
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Watching ER and wondering if my firm will ever expand to Chicago.
September 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
a cartoon of a woman wearing a pink hat
Alt: Louise Belcher staring with one eye twitching
media.tenor.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
But also, finally getting around to Black Mirror S7 and reading Code Name: Pale Horse.
June 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Tortefeasor, you say?
June 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Reading Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves; watching Severance; and listening to Delain before a concert tomorrow.
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM