September 25, 2026
Two Contributors Went Unnamed. Both Patents Were Held Invalid.
Two contributors to a design conceived in 2013 were left off the patents. When the case reached court, one could not be found. Both patents held invalid.
Intelligence
The record before the number.
Each post solves one narrow step at the record level: what to retrieve, how to attribute it, how to date and file it. What the record is worth is the next step.
September 25, 2026
How to Date and File the Scope That Grew Past Your Contract
A renewal is priced against the agreement on file, not the work in practice. List every added deliverable, date it, and file it in one sitting.
September 25, 2026
Four Mistakes Between the Offer Letter and Your Counter
The offer letter is the employer's record of the title. Four mistakes leave your record of the work out of the counter. The retrieval that fixes each.
September 25, 2026
New York Opens Your Personnel File on November 8. Request It.
On November 8, New York employees, current and former, gain a statutory route to copies of their personnel records. Draft the request. Log it.