Rachael "Trademark Clippy" Dickson

My next attempt to add to the general collection of patent memes online:

Willamette is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor of law position; there's more info at the link!

If you are on the market, I highly recommend that you apply. I've been at Willamette a few months now and absolutely love it here.

willamette.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Willam...

Lol oh yikes.

I have heard around the Internet that the rights holders to the Grinch are QUITE protective so...that's my personal bet. I think they'll send a c&d first though.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

There are no press releases during the shutdown, making it difficult to find this kind of news.
But the AK Air/Army National Guards, and the USCG, are conducting SAR operations. The flooding is in remote areas, and affecting primarily small villages, it appears.

taskandpurpose.com/news/alaska-...

THE UNDERLYING PATENT IN PACING TECHS, LLC V GARMIN INT'L INC. SAYS SOME COMPLETELY INACCURATE THINGS ABOUT TEMPO AND TIME SIGNATURES AND IT MAKES ME SO MAD, Y'ALL.

ooo! good to know. instant follow!

I'm fairly sure that we've met before actually. I think I said something really intelligent along the lines of "by any chance are you like, a llama online?"

After teaching my first few patent law classes, I have concluded that there are simply not enough patent law memes online.

This must be fixed.

A 12 ft skeleton sitting on the ground staring at several missing bones in his legs and feet as if he's questioning his life choices. In the background you can see a skeleton three-headed dog chewing on one of the Giant skeleton's leg bones.

A three-headed skeleton dog chewing on a giant leg bone

A skeleton snake wrapped around a giant leg bone. The snake's mouth is open as if he is smiling or triumphantly laughing.

A skeleton cat standing next to a giant bony foot in triumph, a proud hunter.

Please enjoy my Halloween art!

Improvisation inspired by the fact that our 12 foot skelly Indiana Bones has a messed up base and can't really stand right now, lol.

"It's an entire political ad, from a major Democratic politician, that is exclusively defending trans rights. Has this ever happened before?"

This is amazing.

THANK YOU. I absolutely loved it.

John: "why do you have two sets of chopsticks by your computer?"

Me: "oh I use them to eat Cheetos."

He found this very very funny, but like. It really works quite well for Cheeto eating WITHOUT getting the dust all over your hands. I initially learned this trick from She-Hulk. Highly recommend.

How can he be so big and so baby at once?

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

I was just wondering how many people have become design patent agents since the new requirements went into effect in Jan. 2024; found these numbers!

"Currently, there are 52,970 active patent practitioners (14,207 agents, 37,996 attorneys, 5 design and 762 limited recognition)."

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

Every network should be diving into this story: www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u...

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

The White House is blatantly violating the Constitution, ignoring Congressionally-allocated spending. Approving any budget would put a stamp of approval on the end of checks and balances.

It'll hurt, yes, but it's time for opposition. The political costs will mostly fall on the people in charge.

Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

So much Democrat and pundit handwringing about the shutdown as if they're in charge of the government.

They're not. The only possibilities are Trump makes things worse with Democratic approval or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic resistance. Don't bail him out.

My latest (on @msnbc.com):

About to fly off to Chicago with John to attend amazing bonus cousin Lauren's wedding!!

I actually specifically got this custom TLOAS shirt to wear for my talk on Taylor Swift fan merch and IP issues around it next week, but obviously I had to wear it for release day too!

AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

"Yet government retribution for speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden by the First Amendment."

We don't often see anaphora like this repetition in judicial opinions.

"But not all of them." (law firms)
"But not all of them." (higher education)
"But not all of them." (media outlets)

Constructed through footnotes.

Skipping to the near end, after seeing @kyledcheney.bsky.social 's comments,

Young is really upset about masks: "It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable."

w/r/t Todd Lyons's claims about masks.

"…to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble of the non-citizen plaintiff members of the plaintiff associations."

As you can tell, Young isn't happy:

"this Court finds by clear & convincing evidence that…Noem &…Rubio…deliberately & w/ purposeful
aforethought, did so concert their actions & those of their
two departments intentionally to chill the rights …

"This case…squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.

The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"