Miles Finn PhD JD
@milesfinn.bsky.social
Patent litigator, physicist (quantum optics+nuclear), New Yorker, ex-Kiwi, wrote https://patvault.com, which speeds up the tedious parts of patent analysis, including automating file history analysis. My skill: infringement and validity analysis.
Does anyone find it ironic that the analysis of chats reported in Microsoft's paper "Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI" (arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935) was performed using OpenAI's 4o model?
July 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Does anyone find it ironic that the analysis of chats reported in Microsoft's paper "Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI" (arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935) was performed using OpenAI's 4o model?
Commerce Department officials are discussing charging patent holders 1% to 5% of their overall patent value, a shift that could dramatically increase fees, according to people familiar with the matter. The idea is being considered by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick . . .
July 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Commerce Department officials are discussing charging patent holders 1% to 5% of their overall patent value, a shift that could dramatically increase fees, according to people familiar with the matter. The idea is being considered by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick . . .
Congestion pricing made us stay in NYC www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/19/c... So true.
Congestion pricing made us stay in NYC
Not long ago, my family was seriously considering leaving New York City. We live in Jackson Heights, where our son attends a great local school and we’re surrounded by the kind of energy and divers…
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July 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Congestion pricing made us stay in NYC www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/19/c... So true.
Saving money every day.
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As of the week of July 7, 2025, Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel attorney funds have been depleted. Panel payments will be deferred until funds become available. Please continue to file, process, and ...
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July 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Saving money every day.
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I had a lot of respect for Cuomo. Later, I had much less. Tonight, he's rising in my esteem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
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May 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I had a lot of respect for Cuomo. Later, I had much less. Tonight, he's rising in my esteem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
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I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
Paul Simon was on to confirmation bias decades before it was fashionable.
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
Paul Simon was on to confirmation bias decades before it was fashionable.
April 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
Paul Simon was on to confirmation bias decades before it was fashionable.
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
Paul Simon was on to confirmation bias decades before it was fashionable.
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The screenwriter, James Schamus, has been prescient in his criticisms of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's actions. His latest is definitely worth a read. lithub.com/a-columbia-p...
A Columbia professor’s message to his fellow Jewish faculty members.
[As news broke last Friday of the Trump administration’s plan to revoke $400 million dollars of research funding to Columbia University, filmmaker and Columbia professor James Schamus posted the fo…
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March 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The screenwriter, James Schamus, has been prescient in his criticisms of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's actions. His latest is definitely worth a read. lithub.com/a-columbia-p...
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Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Our leadership is an embarrassment. They just verbally assaulted President Zelensky in the oval on national tv. Jesus.
February 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our leadership is an embarrassment. They just verbally assaulted President Zelensky in the oval on national tv. Jesus.
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This is a perilous moment for lawyers in federal service.
Stories of resistance from within can help.
This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII.
We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience.
Would you please share?
tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2
Stories of resistance from within can help.
This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII.
We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience.
Would you please share?
tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2
January 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is a perilous moment for lawyers in federal service.
Stories of resistance from within can help.
This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII.
We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience.
Would you please share?
tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2
Stories of resistance from within can help.
This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII.
We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience.
Would you please share?
tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2
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We, the people, are the goddamn rule book. We always have been. And if we stick to it, instead of giving up, we will prevail.
January 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
We, the people, are the goddamn rule book. We always have been. And if we stick to it, instead of giving up, we will prevail.
"Mr. Biden also commuted the life sentence for Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who was convicted of killing two F.B.I. agents in 1975...his action would allow Mr. Peltier..., who is 80 years old, to serve the remainder of his time in home confinement." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
Biden Pardons 5 Members of His Family in Final Minutes in Office
Mr. Biden emphasized that he did not believe his family did anything wrong, but he feared political attacks by Donald J. Trump.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Mr. Biden also commuted the life sentence for Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who was convicted of killing two F.B.I. agents in 1975...his action would allow Mr. Peltier..., who is 80 years old, to serve the remainder of his time in home confinement." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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It's the first weekday of congestion pricing — and I caught a recidivist reckless cop who COVERS his plate to avoid speed cameras (though he still gets plenty of tickets). Is he paying his tolls, too? What do you think? #CriminalMischief
January 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It's the first weekday of congestion pricing — and I caught a recidivist reckless cop who COVERS his plate to avoid speed cameras (though he still gets plenty of tickets). Is he paying his tolls, too? What do you think? #CriminalMischief
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We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.
December 16, 2024 at 7:25 PM
We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.
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I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
December 14, 2024 at 2:45 AM
I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
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If you missed the call with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz earlier today, here it is!
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National Grassroots Call with Tim Walz and Kamala Harris | Full Remarks
YouTube video by Kamala Harris
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November 27, 2024 at 3:10 AM
If you missed the call with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz earlier today, here it is!
youtu.be/CwIOfpxCbI0?...
youtu.be/CwIOfpxCbI0?...
"...blue sky..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMEl...
"Any day, any hour, not feeling fine
The weight of the world must have read my mind
I can't find the thread and I cannot glide
I need a tow up to clear blue sky . . . " Nada Surf.
"Any day, any hour, not feeling fine
The weight of the world must have read my mind
I can't find the thread and I cannot glide
I need a tow up to clear blue sky . . . " Nada Surf.
NADA SURF Live Full Concert 4K @ Stereolux Nantes France May 25th 2022
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November 15, 2024 at 4:08 AM
"...blue sky..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMEl...
"Any day, any hour, not feeling fine
The weight of the world must have read my mind
I can't find the thread and I cannot glide
I need a tow up to clear blue sky . . . " Nada Surf.
"Any day, any hour, not feeling fine
The weight of the world must have read my mind
I can't find the thread and I cannot glide
I need a tow up to clear blue sky . . . " Nada Surf.
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That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
November 14, 2024 at 11:38 AM
That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement