publications:

An astronomy research study I co-authored is published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP); two essays I wrote are published in the following books in the Apogee Space Series:

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 112, Number 768 includes the research study I co-authored, "The Distance to the Galactic Center" (full text, pdf), which has since remained a standard reference on the topic and has been cited at least 39 times. See the rate at which it has been read on the Smithsonian/NASA ADS, and see what other research papers the people who read it are also reading.

On To Mars: Colonizing a New World, Robert Zubrin and Frank Crossman, editors, includes my essay "Designing a New Space Law".

On To Mars 2: Exploring and Settling a New World, Robert Zubrin and Frank Crossman, editors, includes my essay "An Export Economy for a Mars Settlement".

The Mars Homestead Foundation hosts my Powerpoint presentation co-authored with Mars Society Treasurer Gary Fisher, Space Patents - Intellectual Property in Outer Space (opens Powerpoint), which will in theory be turned into an essay for On To Mars 3.

Pierce Law Review, where I was Book Review Editor, published my book reviews of The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson in 2002, and A Case for Aid: Building Consensus for Development Assistance by Nicholas Stern and the World Bank staff in 2003.

The Germeshausen Center Newsletter (pp. 7-11) includes my paper, "Trademarks and the First Amendment: The Hybrid Nature of Internet Domain Names".

A few hundred patents, patent applications, patent office action responses, amendments, and appeal briefs I've written, dealing with patent applications involving computer software and hardware, pattern recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, enterprise software, database software, data storage, data encryption, data networks, peripheral devices, telecommunications, laser and optics applications, semiconductor manufacturing processes, surgical devices, chemical processing, aerospace devices, hydraulic systems, and other electrical and mechanical technologies, can be found, once the files have been made public, if you know the document numbers, at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's Patent Application Information Retrieval website.

patent tools:

patent number search

advanced patent search

published patent application number search

advanced published patent application search

u.s. patent classifications

espace - european patent office search

japan patent office search

mpep (manual of patent examining procedure) - now on edition 8, revision 6 since september 2007

straight to chapter 2100 of mpep e8r6

straight to chapter 700 of mpep e8r6

the rules (consolidated)

the law (consolidated)

mpep-cited cases as of e8r6

federal circuit court of appeals daily log

ipo patent law updates

google patents

pat2pdf.org

patent application information retrieval service (PAIR)

patent office forms

trademark search

patent & trademark assignments

findlaw ip news

law.com ip law news

the ip mall at pierce law

the aba section of ip law

aipla - american intellectual property law association

mipla - minnesota intellectual property law association

u.s. patent and trademark office

european patent office

japan patent office

world intellectual property organization

hans-scheer-fachverlag - publishers of handy intellectual property resources

patent attorney search (try reg. no. 51655 for kicks)

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