DOGE suggests US Patent & Trademark Office salaries are taxpayer funded. USPTO is self funded from fees and operates at a surplus.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

JUDGE ALSUP: “.. The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency.”

@nbcnews.com #OPM

UPDATED: The 93 lawsuits filed against Trump admin. directives, with hearing times & statuses, plus tabs for cases appealed to circuits & SCOTUS.

We're still working to get livestreaming for as many of the hearings as possible.

Please let us know what we've missed! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Does Elon Musk Have Access to Your Patent Application? With Musk’s latest DOGE ventures in the headlines, you may wonder, does he, or anyone, have access to your unpublished patent application? MVS Partner Heidi Sease Nebel discusses what inventors need to know.
www.filewrapper.com/does-elon-mu...

So we sued Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Office of Personnel Management on behalf of the two million government employees whose personal information was unlawfully disclosed.

This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I wrote a little bit about what you can expect under a new Trump FCC.

spoiler: absolutely none of it is good

The noise of someone chomping on chips can be irritating, especially if it’s directly in your ear.

Doritos created Doritos Silent, a crunch cancellation software that removes the sound of chewing from any call that uses headphones. But it was really created for gamers.

Every once in a while I'm reminded of Blue Zones - areas of the world where people supposedly live for extremely long times - the billions people have spent researching this idea, and the quite convincing evidence that the entire thingis just based on pension fraud www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...