Meredith Lowry
@meredithlowry.bsky.social
Patent & trademark attorney. Attempting to run a half marathon in every state (38/50). Tech obsessed. Social media addict. Opinions my own.
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Meredith Lowry
@meredithlowry.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Meredith K. Lowry - Wright Lindsey Jennings
wlj.com
Hello new followers! I'm a patent attorney that focuses on protecting retail products through their life cycle and post mainly about new design patents on Tuesdays. With the occasional post on woman entrepreneurs, economic development in Arkansas, and AI.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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Sony: well just don't let them use BitTorrent
Me: ...
Sony: also we've never sued universities
Me: (stares directly at the camera like we're on the office)
Me: ...
Sony: also we've never sued universities
Me: (stares directly at the camera like we're on the office)
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Sony: well just don't let them use BitTorrent
Me: ...
Sony: also we've never sued universities
Me: (stares directly at the camera like we're on the office)
Me: ...
Sony: also we've never sued universities
Me: (stares directly at the camera like we're on the office)
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Gorsuch (?): ok so what about like, university dorms that are all on one account
Sony: have a stern word with the university
Gorsuch: ...
Sony: have a stern word with the university
Gorsuch: ...
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Gorsuch (?): ok so what about like, university dorms that are all on one account
Sony: have a stern word with the university
Gorsuch: ...
Sony: have a stern word with the university
Gorsuch: ...
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Barett brings up the electric company analogy. Should we send notices to the power company and tell them to cut customers off because they now know those customers are using power to their computers to infringe copyright?
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Barett brings up the electric company analogy. Should we send notices to the power company and tell them to cut customers off because they now know those customers are using power to their computers to infringe copyright?
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And we're off with SCOTUS arguments in Sony v Cox. The question at issue: whether ISPs can be liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
And we're off with SCOTUS arguments in Sony v Cox. The question at issue: whether ISPs can be liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users.
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So, this is about OU, and I think it’s a fair characterization of a problem, the solution to which cannot be “put the instructor on leave immediately.” You cannot do things that way, or the rule is that Calvin gets an A.
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So, this is about OU, and I think it’s a fair characterization of a problem, the solution to which cannot be “put the instructor on leave immediately.” You cannot do things that way, or the rule is that Calvin gets an A.
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It’s also infuriating because I spent seven years at this university and rubrics from the goddess herself would not save you if the institution, TPUSA and Republican politicians wanted to make an example of you.
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It’s also infuriating because I spent seven years at this university and rubrics from the goddess herself would not save you if the institution, TPUSA and Republican politicians wanted to make an example of you.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
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I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
Loving that AI productivity boost!
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Use of AI ‘tech stacks’ driving demand for lawyers
The more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more professionals are needed to vet the technology’s outputs.
www.afr.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
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A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
I don’t football at all but I even recognized this past Razorback! WPS!
[NFL] Treylon Burks with an unbelievable one handed grab! Touchdown! twitter.com/nfl/status/1...
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I don’t football at all but I even recognized this past Razorback! WPS!
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U.S. Patent No. 12,167,724
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
U.S. Patent No. 12,167,724
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Them: Patent law is boring!
Me:
Me:
Will I be talking about orca pheromones on the first day of Patents this spring? Quite possibly!
November 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Them: Patent law is boring!
Me:
Me:
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"Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process."
November 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process."
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you have to follow @ericmgarcia.bsky.social now, by Law
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
you have to follow @ericmgarcia.bsky.social now, by Law
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No wonder he’s so upset about people reminding the military to not follow unlawful orders. He’s ordering war crimes.
This isn't a military strike. This is premeditated murder and Pete Hegseth is going to spend the rest of his fucking life rotting away in the deepest hole in Leavenworth once America is liberated from this illegitimate, illegal regime.
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
No wonder he’s so upset about people reminding the military to not follow unlawful orders. He’s ordering war crimes.
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D597,850 - issued in 2019 for a design for a "shopping bag with instructional graphic." #DesignPatents
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
D597,850 - issued in 2019 for a design for a "shopping bag with instructional graphic." #DesignPatents
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BREAKING: SCOTUS will not grant the Trump administration’s request to allow it to fire Shira Perlmutter, the director of the Copyright Office, at this time. It puts off any decision while the court is considering the other two firings cases. Perlmutter stays in office during that time.
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
BREAKING: SCOTUS will not grant the Trump administration’s request to allow it to fire Shira Perlmutter, the director of the Copyright Office, at this time. It puts off any decision while the court is considering the other two firings cases. Perlmutter stays in office during that time.
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
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RFK has the sex appeal of an old moth-eaten sock and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to have their brain scanned and to be evaluated for a stroke
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
RFK has the sex appeal of an old moth-eaten sock and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to have their brain scanned and to be evaluated for a stroke
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D226522 - issued in 1973 for a design for a "packaged pie." #DesignPatents
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
D226522 - issued in 1973 for a design for a "packaged pie." #DesignPatents