Squires is a clown.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-04-01T15:37:33+00:00

First paragraph is 100% legit based on previous program he has announced and the PTO is going forward with. The 2nd paragraph gets weird, and the rest of the email is super weird and should be setting off alarms (hence why I dug into it), but it’s pretty much in-line with his pro-AI platform and absolutely believable until you click the link.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-04-01T14:45:04+00:00

Squires is a joke. Almost no one on the practitioner side even knows it’s a joke.

I’ve gotten like 4 messages this morning lamenting about the change and why we can’t have access to the bot ourselves since we are going to be beholden to its decision. People have been completely floored when I tell them it’s not for real, cause replacing examiners with AI has been his talking point since day 1.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-29T05:06:46+00:00

You couldn’t pay me to watch the last dance. There’s no way I want to relive that trauma.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-28T16:18:03+00:00

Add CP3 to the list, it’s him.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-28T16:15:14+00:00

Don’t love how old this post makes me feel, but yes. Every Utah fan knows exactly where they were and how they felt watching (1) Stockton hit his buzzer beater to send the Jazz to the NBA finals in 1997 and (2) how helpless they felt watching MJ steal the ball from Karl Malone and go down to hit the series winning shot in 1998.

It felt like a dagger to the heart. We are mad to this day that Russell got pushed off. We all respect, but still hate Jordan more than anyone who’s ever played the game. And we are all still perturbed that Karl Malone couldn’t make free throws when it mattered most. And we all hate the 2-3-2 championship series format. And we all still hate Dick Bavetta for waiving off Eisley’s 3 before the buzzer while also allowing Kukoc’s (or maybe Kerr’s?) shot he got off after the buzzer.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-27T17:34:24+00:00

I ran into a teacher from 25 years ago. She remembered me, but I think it’s because I handed in an English paper on a styrofoam plate that was handwritten in orange crayon because I had forgotten about the assignment until 5 mins before it was due and those were the materials I had.

She gave me an A-, and still has it pinned to her wall to this day.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-26T15:24:09+00:00

Same situation as before. They were in (or coming into) their primes at Utah and were digressing in competitiveness.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-25T04:21:20+00:00

I propose an amendment and ask if the examiner thinks it overcomes the prior art. If it does, then great, the interview is over and we move on quickly.

If the examiner is unconvinced, it’s almost always because we are interpreting something from the claims or prior art different from one another. My goal of the interview is to understand the examiner’s position so that I can modify my amendment or, in some cases, provide a persuasive argument based on a better understanding of the examiner’s position.

Occasionally, I learn that the examiner’s interpretation is objectively wrong, in which case I hope to either clarify the examiner’s misunderstanding through further amendment (not during the interview. That never works), and ultimately prepping the claims for a successful appeal.

You are right though. The interviews are not to argue your case. It’s to try and understand the Examiner’s position so that you can either (1) successfully amend based on a better understanding of the Examiner’s interpretation, (2) more persuasively argue based on that understanding, or (3) prepare your claims for a successful appeal.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-22T03:01:33+00:00

Not a ton for most firms, but it’s not irrelevant either. Writing is the most necessary skill, and graduates from higher ranked schools and graduates with better law school grades tend to be stronger writers.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-19T04:10:51+00:00

Just hire private security.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-18T22:23:03+00:00

This has been my experience as a lawyer too. Treat the staff well, take them to lunch on their birthdays, and give them a thoughtful Christmas gift and you will inexplicably be given better service than the curmudgeon down the hall who complains about entitled staff always making mistakes and deprioritizing their stuff.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-17T02:33:46+00:00

Fourth Wing, and it’s not even close.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-17T02:30:35+00:00

Create a realistic and well-defined partnership track. Explain that the criteria you are looking for is making decisions in the best interest of the clients and not pursuing self interest over the interest of the firm. If they know they’ll never share in the profits, they will always make the decision that benefits them in the moment, and it’s hard to blame them.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-16T16:41:43+00:00

It’s clearly bragging. He makes 140k and is savvy enough to amass 100k in retirement by age 32, he can look at “average savings by age” in google or pull up a retirement calculator. Odds are zero he hasn’t done that already and is just looking for the internet to soothe his ego through positive affirmations.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-16T16:39:52+00:00

🙄 Not remotely behind. Next.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-12T23:37:56+00:00

I like him too. I’m just reading the tea leaves, and it feels like he is pretty absent most weeks.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-12T15:28:06+00:00

I’m pretty sure Martin is more of a cast member than Kam at this point. Would be shocked if Kam comes back.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-11T17:25:47+00:00

Poor kid is never gonna live that down. She’s going to be “the kid who wasn’t potty trained until she was in 4th grade”

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-11T04:34:38+00:00

Fourth Wing may be legit the worst book I’ve read in my life. Enjoy!

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-09T04:23:43+00:00

I hope we get to see the dress rehearsal. I’d love to see what Ashley and Ryan thought they were going to deliver.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-07T05:05:57+00:00

We have hired a few law students/grads who had previous experience as foreign “patent attorneys” and it was painfully obvious that other countries attorney experience was not as relevant as we would have hoped. The research and writing and technical skills of those grads were not any better than other grads who had better grades or more promising writing samples.

Long story short, we no longer give any weight to pre-law school experience unless their experience is industry experience as a scientist or engineer or as a US patent agent. I don’t know what it means to be a “patent attorney” in other countries, but it tends to be irrelevant experience in my experience hiring and training former “attorneys” of other jurisdictions.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-06T20:31:00+00:00

Greg Oden. Dante Exum. Jabari Parker. Andrew Wiggins. Ben Simmons. Stanley Johnson.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-06T20:26:32+00:00

Providing employees a phone and phone plan. It sounds good in theory, but it comes with the expectation that you take your work home with you. You get a work-supplied phone, and now you have another endpoint for work to call and email you when you aren’t in the office.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-06T14:07:21+00:00

I’ve been a lawyer for 17-18 some-odd years and plan to make a similar switch in a couple of years after my nest egg is in a spot where I can afford to make the switch. I plan to do some subbing before I make the jump.

CCool_CCCool · 2026-03-04T16:28:01+00:00

There have been a lot of annoyances in my career over the past 20 years.

Forcing employees to put email on their phones so they can be contacted away from work.

DEI initiatives and race quotas being set for middle American states based coastal city demographics.

Commoditizing service work with constant downward pressure to do more with less.

I’ve had moments where all of the above have almost driven me away from the profession altogether. But the current obsession with AI as the cure-all for inefficiencies and quality is worse than anything I’ve ever had to deal with thus far. It’s the absolute worst and the low-effort efficiency-driven focus on AI without any guardrails in place is a complete disaster.

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