My child is… January 30, 2014
Posted by mareserinitatis in engineering, younger son.Tags: patents, sticker, younger son
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My second patent application went in a couple weeks ago. My first was filed about a year and a half ago, and I still haven’t heard on that one.
Anyway, a couple days after the second application went in, this sticker showed up in the mail for the younger son:
Is it horrible for me to admit that I seriously considered cutting off the “My child is a” part and sticking it to my car?
I hope I’m not being overly optimistic.
Does anyone speak Chingalese? December 2, 2013
Posted by mareserinitatis in engineering, work.Tags: chinese, chingalese, electronics, legalese, patents, translation
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I spent this morning reviewing patents. Normally, it’s hard enough to wade through documents written in legalese, but I have the added complication of some of these being written in Chinese legalese (Chingalese!) that has subsequently been run through Google translate. (Although I would like to claim I’m brilliant to have come up with such a name, there’s already a site in existence, so I’m not as original as I’d like to be.) However, the diagrams cannot be run through the translator, so all of the diagrams still have Chinese labels. That makes it a tad difficult to see what they’re actually doing 99% of the time.
I wish I could use the excuse that my analysis is only as good as my translator, and that my translator is not one who is ‘skilled in the art’ when it comes to electronics.
Busy day! February 4, 2011
Posted by mareserinitatis in engineerblogs.org, engineering, research.Tags: patents, research
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I have a lot on my plate today, so I might do a links dump later in the day but I’m not anticipating anything else. In the meantime, please head over to Engineerblogs.org and check out my post, Patent (De)Pending.
I also blog at Engineer Blogs, home away from home to some of the best engineering blogs.