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“In France, we live not only for ourselves but for the joy of living together.” -- Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
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Seawolf Grounds
Seawolf Grounds is a student-operated café and social hub in UAA’s Student Union. It features Alaska-roasted coffee through Kaladi Brothers, a well-known local roaster
Intellectual Property
It is impossible to overestimate the sensitivity of this topic but poke at it we will. As the "Rogers Curve" illustrates innovators will be smartly outnmbered by the partisans of the "Administrative State" that has found comfort in government and education communities. During today's colloquium we limit our inquiry to leading practice discovery and promulgation that informs the effectiveness of real assets of educational settlements everywhere.
2026 National Patent Application Drafting Competition
"The United States Patent and Trademark Office invites your school to participate in the 2026 National Patent Application Drafting Competition. The competition introduces law students to issues arising in U.S. patent law and develops their patent application drafting skills." Links to next year's competition included here.
Innovation and Competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence
The International Trade Administration requests comments on trends in the global artificial intelligence market. Responses will provide clarity about stakeholder concerns regarding policies, regulations, and other measures which may impact the policy administration by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Maker Space
A makerspace is a collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses "high tech"--to--"no tech" tools.
Intellectual Property 101
ICYMI (20 April 2022): United State Patent and Trademark Office presentation to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. "Learn about #intellectualproperty (IP) basics and potential ways to protect your innovations as you transition from idea to product."
I-Code Group B Committee Action Results
We will sort through the results of last month's standardization action as it applies to health care facilities -- with particular interest in maternity and neo-natal intensive care technologies -- ahead of the follow up technical meetings in Cleveland in October. Today we examine the back and forth on solar and wind farms located on actual animal, produce and grain farms. Many educational settlements are co-located on these convergent enterprises.
Current Issues and Recent Research
Next: Approval by the NFPA Standards Council for release of the 2026 National Electrical Code this week at the Annual Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. IEEE Release of the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code on July 1. Sorting the electrotechnology concepts appearing in the recent release of the International Code Council's "Group B Complete Monograph" ahead of the follow up meetings in Cleveland in October.