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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Too footnote or not to footnote?:
Although I personally like footnotes and find them indispensible in academic writing (and much better than endnotes, which I despise), I've always liked the following comments by Bryan Garner, in The Elements of Legal Style (page 93). Garner notes that although footnotes can usefully refer you to other references, "you can hardly ignore, at the foot of every page, the notes that 'run along, like little angry dogs barking at the text.' These days, the notes are more likely Great Danes than chihuahuas." [Quoting S.M. Crothers, "That History Should Be Readable," in The Gentle Reader 172 (1903; repr. 1972). 
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Latest patents:
U.S. Pat. No. 6,730,538, issued May 4, 2004: Fabricating electronic devices using actinide oxide semiconductor materials (University of Tennessee Research Corporation);
U.S. Pat. No. 6,735,224, issued today (5/11/04): "Planar lightwave circuit for conditioning tunable laser output" (Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.)--my first one as a co-inventor.
These and others listed here.
Friday, May 07, 2004
Patent Downloader:
Another great and free patent downloading tool: www.pat2pdf.com (thanks to Martin Meder). And courtesy the Nipper, you can pull down FREE pdf copies of EPO/PCT filings here.
Others available here.
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