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Holiday Gift List for Patent Attorneys and the Like
November 23, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving!
It is early in the holiday season, but not for mail-order… I'm also posting this list now to give you ample time to forward the list to potential gift-givers. Here are a dozen holiday gifts for patent law professionals.
- Knives? Yes patent attorneys can be excellent cooks if given the right tools and the right cook books. In my home, I use the very best unpretentious inexpensive knives on the market: Swiss Made Victorinox with Fibrox handles. A solid 8-inch chef knife sells for $26 at Amazon
. The best cookbook is by Cooks Illustrated
- I have not tried this one — The Celluon Magic Cube Laser Projection Keyboard and Touchpad. This futuristic device works according to independent reviews that I read. The idea is that a little device wirelessly connects to your computer, phone, or tablet and then uses a laser to project a workable keyboard onto a flat surface! My photo here shows it in use with an iPad, but it works well with non-Apple equipment. $170
- Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges
- Kindle is still a good bet. I'd go with either the Kindle Touch
- Digital Microscope
- Utilikey 6-in-1 tool.
- A Blue Laser Pointer
- Really strong fridge magnets
- For those long nights at trial: http://www.iamastuffedanimal.com/
- Mini-Tripod
- BBQ Skewers: Link
(Special thanks to Erik Flom of Husch Blackwell for his help in compiling this list.)
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> 3.Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner.
My first thought, on recognizing the author, was to tell the judge you have bought his books.
“5.Digital Microscope with USB port to plug directly into the computer: Nature + Technology for $99.‘
SOLD OUT – some one placed a very large order for Crystal City
Item no. 2 (Celluon Magic Cube Laser Projection Keyboard and Touchpad) sounds fantastic, if a bit pricey.
that digicam tripod is awesome. Newegg sells it and it’ll hold camcorders and digicams alike.
Has anyone used the projection keyboard in a Windows 7 environment? Any reviews?
For sale in mall kiosks for $150. not perfect, but very cool.
In my home, I use the very best unpretentious inexpensive knives on the market: Swiss Made Victorinox with Fibrox handles.
Same here. Those are excellent knives for the price (lord knows you can pay a LOT more, if you want to, for a minimal amount of additional functionality — cooking equipment is a lot like stereo equipment in that respect).
Those might be good gifts for patent folk doing mechanical or electrical, but how about the chemical or biotech practitioners? Unless counting cooking as chemistry, and microscope as bio.
counting cooking as chemistry
More like biochemistry. See also: fermentation.
Victorinox Fibrox knives are fantastic. I have a few that are my go-to knives.
You think Scalia a narcissist? Or is it just judges in general?
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges
probably the best gift a normal patent attorney could give another normal patent attorney.
Perhaps I might even get JD one.
Don’t bother. His opinions are unreadable enough. I can’t imagine his book is any better.
The Utilikey also functions as a shirt stay!
Party on dudes!!!!!!!
Patent attorney as a cook? I don’t think it looks good when a terror of criminals are laying on their kitchen to cook something.
This is very interesting. I actually enjoy your writing style and your word choice more than anything Smile..
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Re: cooking as chemistry, check out Ratio – http://www.amazon.com/Ratio-Simple-Behind-Everyday-Cooking/dp/1416566112
Great book on baking, distilled down to the simple ratios of ingredients. Taught me to make perfect popovers.
If you want to spend more, there’s Modernist Cuisine – http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/dp/0982761007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322120741&sr=8-1 – by everyone’s favorite patent troll/innovative researcher, Nathan Myhrvold. It’s chemistry, physics, engineering, etc., and an invaluable tool if you want to take your cooking to the next level. I’ve got turkey wings in a 54c water bath preparing for Thanksgiving right now as a result of this book.
> You think Scalia a narcissist? Or is it just judges in general?
Neither. Rather I was thinking that if you use the art tought in the book the judge would necessarily find it hard to find the arguments not persuasive.
Quoting from such books can be rather amusing and in one case I know both parties quoted extensively from a well known book regarding patents laws until the judge exclaimed ‘stop quoting that book!’.
I’ve had a Kindle Fire for several days. It appears to be a handy delivery platform for Amazon content. Aside from that, it has some usefulness as a tablet, but it’s not an iPad killer. Of course at $200, it isn’t meant to be.
Thanks.
Sent from iPhone
I like these BBQ skewers better, as they are flexible. So you can bend the skewers as needed in order to better use grill space: http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Wire-Stainless-Flexible-Grilling/dp/B001BXMNAU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322241164&sr=8-1
Aren’t knives best put to use in stabbing colleagues in the back?
Of,course! As well know, your article is very attractive, many of my friends have such thoughts, like so many people comment on your articles, look forward to your new works
Hey, baby! I agree with the idea, perhaps our peers, this is a consensus! I want to use this article, believe that you will agree to me!
So now it’s so understandable. They took my correspondence from the first dated Application and used it as if it was the dated CIP Application. They even obviously used the same trick by removing the numbers on the Drawings as in the first Application Boards they sent back to me, with also of course the Slotted Swim Platform Drawing that I waited a whole month to be corrected. So they now take the numbers off the second set of Drawings, and switched the one that is folded once as in the Drawings I sent that Easy Peasy claimed he never got. And he did this to hide that fact that he had gotten the Drawings that B pointed out to me.. And I responded… WHERE DID YOU GET THAT? HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT DRAWING?
Same trick. And obviously used the Drawing that was sent to me by Micheal Little. PROVING that they are the ones that changed it. And the only way they could have was to pull a B&E and change the Drawings. And this was of course done at Guerwoods. Where it more than likely was a go ahead just destroy Her. Finger Print from a ONE TRICK PONY..AKA HORSES A@@.
What happens if I have what I believe to be an answer to a very important Medical break through… (I may truly have the answer to something… maybe not) But if I do.. then because I am not skilled in this so called category.. I lose? That is not fair. My answer is not Genius.. It comes from thinking about how to correct a problem to make it work.
My wife loves her Kindle Fire and it is an amazing value!
Without further “I do?” Wha?
If you don’t want to go that far (Modernist Cuisine is amazing though), McGee’s on food and cooking is a great as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Kitchen/dp/0684800012/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322530538&sr=8-1
Or be practical – buy a thermapen.
http://www.amazon.com/Splash-Proof-Super-Fast-Thermapen-Thermometer-Professional/dp/B003P63MEW/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322530576&sr=1-1-catcorr
For the patent attorney that has everything, how about something to keep it on? Portable ipad holder on kickstarter http://kck.st/flote
Yup.. Its a good idea to gift a such knife to patent attorney.. If they love cooking they can use it.. Or somewhere else also..
The Utilikey can also be leveled at the top and when turned over used as a signed Baseball holder.