The reality is that you get multiple bites at the apple. You challenge at trial and in an IPR. Lose both, challenge with an EPR and appeal the trial. IPRs were initially created to simplify trial and cost, but once the estoppel provisions were determined not to have much teeth, it just became something you did because there was no downside.
Regarding law school, I would point out that law grad salaries are bi-modal. If you get in big law, you would start at $210k, if not you will start at a lot less. Presumably, with your background, your easiest pathway to big law is patent litigation, but I would say there is still a lot bias favoring EE degrees over CS, but less so than in the past (as I recall from interviewing a long time ago that was true, but at my firm, I think its less of issue, but your experience may vary).
Law school is expensive and I don't think there is a cheap option in the bay area (even the state school is expensive but in other locations, it can be cheaper), but they do give out scholarships.
I wouldn't choose law school unless you think you could do well in the actual legal career environment. I don't know what you mean by "good contacts for law school," but if that means you know people in the field, I would suggest talking to them about it. Get as much information you can get.
Any worries that law is not going to be a viable career with AI seems farfetched by me, particularly in litigation.
I have recently been listening to the "The Complete History of Science" podcast [1]. I have not gotten to the Copernicus portion yet, but I really enjoyed the ancient Greek astronomy episodes (including the episode on Aristarchus).
I was an engineer and then I went to law school. There were tons of older students in law school looking to change their careers, from housewives to Ph.D. grads. In intellectual property, it is not unusual to find lawyers whose prior careers was an engineer or scientist for many years. I've seen a few who graduated law school in the mid-to-late thirties, early forties and still go to big law, some eventually becoming partners.
I wouldn't go to law school unless you really want to do it, but the point is there are plenty of people out there looking to change their careers all the time. Some are more successful than others in achieving it (due to luck or other reasons), but it is not as uncommon as you may think it is. It's never too late. Good luck.
I also worked as a civilian for the Navy as an EE (b.s.). I think my pay was ~50k (in the mid 2000s). I don't know about the national labs, but my experience working for the navy was that funding was a fight, especially everything being siphoned off for the Afghanistan war. The equipment was pretty up to date (the computers were not the latest, but decent), the furniture was a mismatch collection of liquated stuff, lab reports were published to a confidential library, and we were on flex time, which made the hours great.
Ford is attempting to change its dealership model to a better system (set pricing, dealership chargers, better training) by forcing them to agree to changes or lose your ability to sell Ford EVs. - https://insideevs.com/news/610114/ford-modele-dealership-rul...
I agree on Westsider. However, I always liked the Strand for its collection of history, science, and math books. While Strand can be crowded and touristy, it still has a good collection of books.
If he was younger, I would have recommended scratch. I recommended that to my then 11-year old cousin and he is now an engineering undergrad student.
At your son's age, there are plenty of how to program python courses using udemy and the like that show to build progressively harder apps for a complete beginner. From there, he could probably try to do one of those google certificate courses on android development or the like.
I remember having to check out BASIC programming books from the library as a kid to learn. These days, people have made fortunes on creating videos on how to program.
I also left engineering for law. Money was a factor when I applied, but also I did not like being pigeon holed in my engineering career. I do patent litigation, so I get to see discovery on the whole system as opposed to portions of it for a variety of technologies (i.e., network security, semiconductors, mechanical devices). I only had about 2 years of engineering experience (working in defense industry), but found the career boring and the pay low (~60k starting vs $160k starting in big law (which is now $205k starting)). Granted, I do think if I went to silicon valley when I graduated, I may have found a better position at a start-up environment. After 10 years of patent litigation, I do find it boring, but at least I am paid well comparatively to my SV engineering friends.
I agree with the statements above getting healthier and sleep.
What I did was quit for a year (I understand not everyone has the means). I told my boss I wanted to travel and I found it hard to balance it with work because my schedule is so unpredictable. He asked if I wanted a shorter sabbatical, and I said no because I had plans to places I wanted to travel throughout the year. I wanted to leave without burning bridges and we were slightly in a busy time, I said my quit date was flexible to whenever we get past the busy time.
I ended up splitting my year off at home and traveling. I previously backpacked parts of Asia for a month and found that going to country to country every few days to be overwhelming. So this time I would go some place on my bucket list and then come back to the US (such as spend a month driving around New Zealand and hiking for two weeks in Scotland). Again, I realize not everyone can do this, but to the extent you can/want to, think of things to knock off your bucket list.
After a year, my boss came back to me to ask if I was interested in coming back, which I did. I felt the year off helped cleared my head. Yes, you will get bored, but you will get some clarity. And since I have come back, I have been better of setting my schedule (it also helps that the office has expanded and I am no longer filling in every spot).
Apollo 13 (1995) - there are various scenes showing the engineers working through various technical problems (much like gravity and the martian)
Antitrust (2001) - The technical portion is goofy, but discusses the open source software movement, VCs, working for a major tech company (an evil bill gates character played by tim robbins)
Sneakers (1992) - Personally, one of my favorite movies of all-time. Code breaking, old school hacking (think wargames). I think the best description i've heard of it is an 1970s caper movie. You will never see a better cast in a movie. Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones, Dan Ackroyd, River Phoenix, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell all play major roles
Mythic Quest (2020) - Apple tv show about creating video games and running a tech company
Key thing, when you quit, don't burn bridges. I took a year off, did some traveling after working at my job for 8 years. At the end of the year, I applied to a few jobs, but my old boss contacted me to rehire me. I went back as if I never left. I am in a different field, so you experience may vary, but if you are in a good team, your old boss is likely to rehire you instead of investing in someone they don't know and have to train.
If you have a BS in electrical engineer/comp sci/compE or PhD in biochem, patent law is a field you can get into and have job opportunities either as a prosecutor (writing patents) or as a litigator (trial lawyer arguing in front of a jury and judge). Both have their pluses and minuses. Note, you can get a job in patent law in other engineering/science/non-science fields, but the job opportunities are a harder to find or get the opportunity.
for the west highland way, you don't necessarily have to camp. it runs along various cities and restaurants, so you can hike it each day using a day pack, and stay at hotels and hostels overnight. there are companies that will move your luggage to place to place while you hike. I tried the west highland way, got about half way before I slipped and hurt my knee, but i would like to finish it at some point.
I agree. I live in Mountain View and all for building more density and more townhouses, but the number of townhouses in the articles is less then the number of apartments in each of the new developments. Unless I am missing something, I don't understand how decreasing the number of housing units is helping the area.
regarding the legal action: based on my recollection from real estate class in law school, failing to provide a free and clear title on a general warranty deed is a pretty straight forward victory. if i remember anything from that class, always get a general warranty deed (ie a deed with all the covenants) when buying a house.
Related, but I also think distribution has made a difference. you can ignore radio and listen to whatever song you want on spotify/ipod with no reason to pay attention to hits/mainstream. before you had a more of a shared cultural experience in listening to the radio. going to the bit on fragmentation, if you liked alt rock in the 90s, you would listen to a station that would play heavy rock to britpop to indie rock all in the same hour on the same channel. i can now listen to the subgenres on separate channels on siriusxm (ie, octane vs. altnation vs siriusxmu).
i think you misunderstand some of the purposes monitoring a filing. the general purpose of monitoring a filing is to hopefully have a legal opinion that supports your argument. the whole purpose is to cite it so your opponent responds to it and the judge agrees with you. knowing what filings your legal opponents are looking at does not provide an advantage. the law is the law. your opponent is going to cite the case in a brief, and you will respond to their citation. despite what tv shows, there is no perry mason moment. trials are not about surprises, the main gist is set in stone. and you will piss off a judge if you start citing cases in oral arguments that are not in your brief. ive seen it happen.
random question, have yall ever thought to separate the google scholar part from legal part. I know its a simple button click, but they are really different outputs. I use both, mainly the scholar part for finding prior art references in patent litigations, and the legal searches to find citations. I would also think it would help on the branding. either way, thanks for putting together a product that really helps.
That is unfortunate. It would have driven legal costs down on legal search costs. WestLaw/LexisNexis have their place with their headers, but most of the time I am looking for a nuanced fact pattern in unpublished cases.
While it does not include filings, Google Scholar does have legal opinions. However, as far as I can tell, the collection of material has always been a bit random to me. By this, I mean Google Scholar includes published cases with proper citations (though I'm not sure for what years and its completeness) and a random collection of unpublished cases (not sure the rhyme or reason for some rulings being there and others not).
Random side note, Bloomberg Law is the only service I am aware of that allows you to do a pretty complete keyword search of PACER (at least for federal district courts, state courts vary). I'm pretty sure Westlaw and Lexis do not do this (also they charge an exorbitant price to do a search, while Bloomberg charges the PACER fee for the first time a document is pulled by anyone plus the seat the license fee). Docket Navigator is a pretty good product too.
You are somewhat close but a little confused on the meaning of en banc. From my brief scan of the link, the trial judge was Judge Alsup of the Northern District of California (San Francisco) which awarded fees. Judge Aslup reduced the fees. The case was appealed to the 9th circuit to a three judge panel on at least the fees issue (presumably other issues as well). The three judge panel (normal appellate practice) sided with Judge Alsup.
At that point, the only option legally to appeal the appellate court is to ask for an en banc hearing with all (or eleven judges pointed out below) the appellate court judges in the 9th circuit or go to the supreme court (which is unlikely for the issue). en banc is not necessarily a case or issue of extreme importance but another appeal mechanism and also a way for the appellate court to clarify a rule of law or reverse course on a rule of law. en banc happens often in the appellate courts.
Edit: I scanned the en banc opinion - it was purely about fees calculation stating "We reheard this appeal en banc to clarify the standards applicable to awards of attorneys’ fees under the EAJA."
why move away from the android brand? why not call "fuchsia" "android 10"? It would seem to me a waste of branding of a well known term around the world even if on a technical level, it is not the same. Or is there a plan to continue the use of android in some way.
I think inverted yield curve is interesting. In my simplistic understanding, isn't it just a global bet that short term yield is going better than the long term based on investor sentiments. So in essence, when the inversion happens, the smart money is on a downturn/recession. I believe that the 10 year bond and the 2 year bond yield have been close recently feeding fears of an inverted yield curve and recent talk of a downturn.
I haven't check here, but when you sue a state or a city, they usually have stringent rules on service (i.e., a form must be filed with 30 days of incident).