The Unpublished Works of
Roberta J. Morris
Lecturer in Patent Law
Writer on Patent Law and Everything Else
and Reviser and Annotator of Recipes

Items are usually  listed in inverse chronological order by year, but sometimes, within a particular year or month, in regular chronological order when that makes more sense.  A table of all the posts, sortable by date, title, etc.,  is in preparation. 

Blog postings on http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com, the blog for thoughts on patent law (mostly)

• 2014
• July 2014 Federico's Commentary  Follow-up:  Almost five years after the original post, a new comment by Anonymous motivates me to look again for references to Federico and his Commentary on the web
  
• June 2014 Braintree Labs and "A" - the indefinite article excludes the singular?
  
• April 2014 Three (3) Ways the patent system promotes progress. Not 1. Not 2.
• 2013
  
• April 2013 Damages and Trolls - a loophole in the marking statute - 01
• February 2013 A Great Idea That's Never Been Tried - The Patent System
• 2011
  
• August - November 2011 The Advice to a Young Would-Be Patent Law Scholar Series
• Advice to a Young Would-Be Patent Law Scholar - 01, The Basic Advice
• Advice ... - 02, Some Background:  My Views on Law Review Articles
• Advice ... - 03, Paragraphs
• Advice ... - 04, Numbers
• Advice ... - 05, Those NEVER and ALWAYS Rules of Good Writing
• Advice ... - 06, MERELY and CLEARLY
• April 2011 The Standard Application Metric (SAM) - some more data - PTO Reform Ideas 04. This post links to a file stored right here on myunpublishedworks.com:  Some Data for SAM
• April 2011 Microsoft v i4i - Tables of Contents of ALL the Briefs
• March 2011 Patent Fees and Counts and the Standard Application Metric - PTO Reform Ideas 03
• February 2011 Microsoft v. i4i - Quick Guide to all the Briefs - Everybody's Table of Contents (as of February 10, 2011)
• February 2011 Microsoft v. i4i - List of Amicus Filers as of February 11, 2011
• 2010
  
  • April 2010 Great Quotes 01 - Dicta in the Federal Circuit, Lourie in Ariad v. Nichols in Railroad Dynamics
  • March 2010 Examining Patentable Subject Matter [PTO Reform Ideas 02], thoughts inspired by the STLR Symposium
  • March 2010 Introduction of series on STLR-inspired thoughts
    
• 2009
  
  • October 2009 An Urgent Letter and Time Sensitive Proposal to PTO Director David Kappos, concerning the [then] upcoming oral argument in Bilski v. Kappos and how it would be in the best interests of the Patent Office to have that argument NOT take place and to have the Supreme Court NOT rule on the 101 issue (patentable subject matter).
  • October 2009 Federico's Commentaries should be posted on uspto.gov
  • September 2009 "Mark Twain on Patents and Inventions":  David Kappos, new PTO Director, just quoted Twain on the need for good patent laws, and it reminded that my first encounter with that quotation had led me to the Autobiography of Mark Twain, and Mr. Clemens' personal experience as a venture capitalist.
  • September 2009 Oral Argument on Citizens United v. FEC: didn't anybody point out that non-natural persons can't vote?
  • February 2009 Application Form for Position of PTO Director ; a copy of the Application Form is also available here)
  • February 2009 Claim Construction and Burdens of Proof, concerning Kinetic Concepts v. Blue Sky, (Fed. Cir. 2/2/09) and pointing out that close questions of claim construction might be resolved better by considering the burden of proof for the issue which gives rise to the dispute over the meaning of claim language.
• 2008
  • April 2008 My Amicus Brief in Bilski, the link to the pdf of my brief to the Federal Circuit
• 2007 (the inaugural year)
  • March 2007 Forum Shopping and MedImmune, SanDisk, and patent DJs: Where is the F word in MedImmune and SanDisk?" [FORUM, as in forum shopping and choice of forum]
  • May 2007 The Missing V-Word in KSR v. Teleflex : VACATED:  The Supreme Court does not care that vacated and reversed are not the same thing: on remand, even the Federal Circuit is confused about what they'd done before

Blog postings on http://myunpublishedworks2.blogspot.com, the blog for thoughts on everything else (but not for recipes)

• 2014
• January 2014 to ??:   The Morris Number Series (in series number order)
  
• January 2014 The Morris Number: A Way to Quantify How Gender-Neutral an Organization Really Is (Morris Number 00) - When posted in January, this was a "coming soon" placeholder for the series and a page for tinyurl.com/morrisnumber to point to.  In March when the first 7 parts were completed, this page became a list of the posts in the series.  Updated as additional posts are added.
  
• March 2014 The Morris Number - Introduction (Morris Number 01) -  The definition of the Morris Number; the Bechdel test; brief description of the first 7 parts of the series; updated as additional posts are added
  
• March 2014 The Morris Number - A Few Questions and Answers (Morris Number 02) - 4.5 in a perfect world; why fifth highest; where the best numbers may be; not blaming women; the Fortune 500 female CEOs
  
• March 2014 The Morris Number and Determining Rank (Morris Number 03; PhD Ideas 05) -  Counting how many men you pass on the way to Female#5 when the org chart is not enough:  compensation package and other ways to decide who outranks whom
  
• March 2014 Calculating the Morris Number - Hypotheticals (Morris Number 04) - Morris Numbers for a nunnery and other hypothetical organizations; observations about the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts; some early scholarly articles commenting on "homosocial reproduction"
  
• March 2014 Morris Number Ranges for Some Tech Companies (Morris Number 05) - examining the EEO data of five tech companies - Cisco, Dell, eBay, Ingram Micro and Intel - to calculate their Morris Number ranges; publicly available data for those five and (Facebook and Yahoo)
  
• March 2014 The Weighted Morris Number (Morris Number 06) - adding weights to discriminate (npi) between companies with the same Morris Number but a different ordering of females and males
• March 2014 Morris Number - Further Research (Morris Number 07) (PhD Ideas 06)- some ideas for compiling employment statistics about diversity, particularly about women; a description of what I call the Indira Phenomenon; compensation deciles
  
• May 2014 Women in Silicon Valley: A Prediction from 2000 (Morris Number 08) -  Cisco's CEO John Chambers' rosy prognostication
  
• June 2014 Google's Diversity Numbers and the Women CS majors of the Class of 1994 (Morris Number 09)
• February 2014 Andy Borowitz and Minnesota (Borowitz 02, PhD Ideas 04) - In which a reader's comment about Borowitz and Minnesota gets me thinking some more and leads me to discover Carol Foyler, Borowitz's [only?] female recycled name
  
• January 2014 Genkster (Neologisms 01) (Advice for Story Writers 02) - Gender Knee-Jerk Stereotyping all over the place, including Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
• January 2014 Tenting and the Effect on Batteries (PhD Ideas 03.1) - more on Tenting (to rid your house of termites) and the things nobody tells you 
• 2013
• November 2013 - Hobby Lobby / Con Law Series (chronological order)
  
• November 2013 Citizens United and Hobby Lobby (Con Law - Nov 2013) - corporate v. natural persons  and why Citizens United is weird; ; the freedom to speak anonymously (Not); the words of the First Amendment, reformatted for ease of reading and studying its ideas.
• November 2013 Employers' Religious Beliefs - What about Death to Infidels? (Hobby Lobby 01) - a rhetorical question
• November 2013 Hobby Lobby, the Divine Right of Sperm, and Religion v. Religion (Hobby Lobby 02) - corporations may be persons but, so far, they do not have the right to exercise religion; other thoughts on the case pending in the Supreme Court
• October 2013 Gender Stereotyping in Plays and Movies: Advice for Playwrights 01 - Thoughts motivated by Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class
  
• October 2013 Tenting and Tempurpedic (PhD Ideas 03) - Tenting, Tempurpedic, Chloropicrin and my Smarting Eyes
  
• July 2013 Three-Minute Fiction's Finders Keepers: Cookies (commentary) - thoughts on blind judging, comments on two stories
• July 2013 Three-Minute Fiction's Finders Keepers: Cookies (the story) - my three-minute story
• July 2013 Clothes (Very Short Essays 02) - my first serious poem since high school, written in 1998
• April 2013 New Demographic Category: TECMY (Acronyms - 03) - Encounters with the Silicon Valley Boys' Club:  Be White, East Asian or South Asian and of course male and young, or begone.
  
• April 2013 Ne-ner-nis (Part 3) - LANGUAGE 03 - more about the neuter pronouns that I, and a vet named Dr. Al Lippart, independently invented
• March 2013 Israel - Photo Essays - 01 - Manhole Covers
• 2012
•  October 2012 The Myth of the Undecided Voter, and The Reality of the Decided Deciding Not to Vote [Voting 03] - the needles in the haystacks, the squeaky wheels, and the elephants in the room; why we need the decided to decide to vote
• September 2012 The Real Culture of Dependency - expanding on Vice President Biden's remarks on the Republican view of the "culture of dependency"
• September 2012 Krasny Forum 01 - Corporate Lawyers - Michael Krasny and guests discuss the Chamber of Commerce Litigation Study
• 2011
• November 2011 TWGLCM (pron. twiggle-kim) [Acronyms 02, PhD Ideas 02]: the advantages of being a tall white good-looking Christian male
  
• November 2011 Now boarding [Air Travel 01; Head-Smack 01], ideas about airport signage and boarding by zones
• November 2011:  The Voting Series
• Mail/Internet voting v. the secret ballot [Voting 01]: how voting at home may empower big brother, if not Big Brother
• Mail Voting, Oregon, and Coercion in the Family [Voting 2, PhD Ideas 01]: false completion within the household, by coercion or usurpation
• September 2011 Andy Borowitz, Tracy Klugian and Harland Dorinson:  Borowitz recycles some names in his humor blog
• April 2011 Acronyms 01: WIBOTT (pron. why-bott), a person with no intellectual curiousity, who gets it done but doesn't care about getting it right
• January 2011 Nature/Nurture 01 and Teaching 01: The Lima Bean Effect: why I mastered the art of choosing to like in advance of actually liking
• 2010
  • May 2010 The Head-Smack Series
  • May 2010  NE-NER-NIS (part 2) - LANGUAGE 02
  • April 2010 LANGUAGE 01:  The Reticent/Reluctant Hesitation
  • April 2010 The Start of Several Series
  • March 2010 The True Story Behind the Hirschhorn Museum's Contest to Create Art from a Single Sheet of Paper
  • March 2010 The Oscars and Oscar the Grouch: Footnote, Other people connect the two Oscars; the Oscars' relative ages
  • March 2010 The Oscars Meet Oscar the Grouch, Part 2:  Great News about Bigelow, but. Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar and women in IED units
  • March 2010 Up: Against (Why I Ultimately Was Down on Up) , thoughts about the lack of roles for female actors in Up and other Pixar movies
• 2009, the inaugural year
  • October 2009 "No Known End to the World" (short short science fiction story, written in 2006)
  • September 2009 The Need for a Neuter Pronoun:  A Solution - NE = he or she (or it), NER = her or him (or it), NIS = her, hers,
    
  • his, its
    
  • September 2009 Merit Needs A Publicist (a very short essay, aka a poem, also written in 2006)

Blog postings on Roberta's Revised, Reorganized And Annotated Recipes, the blog for recipes requested by friends and relatives

• 2014
• December 2014 - Poached Pears - another favorite from the Day Before Cookbook
• November 2014 - Libby's Apricot Bars - I bet this was a very popular 1950s recipe.  
  
• May 2014 Romaine - Nectarine - Havarti Salad - R3A2 version of a recipe I tasted at Busch's supermarket in Ann Arbor
  
• May 2014 Baked Chicken - my standby for family dinners
  
• May 2014 Three Cans - an invention that's fast, easy, vegan, parve low cal, cheap and tasty if you like canned tomatoes, green beans and legumes
  
• 2013
• March 2013 Pot Roast (Brisket) - the R3A2 version of  Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book "Sweep Steak"
• March 2013 Orzo Salad - R3A2 of Phil's Aunt Shayna's Friend Joy's recipe
• March 2013 Poached Pears - R3A2 of a recipe from the Day Before Cookbook
• March 2013 Texas Caviar - (vegan) R3A2 recipe combining Nina's Ann Arbor News recipe and a Hints from Heloise webpage
  
• 2012
  
• November 2012 Libby's Spinach Squares (Fingers)
• November 2012 Hummus (from the South Beach Diet book)
  
• September 2012 Ruth Morris's Tuna Mousse
• June 2012 Baba's Challah (Jewish Egg Bread)
• March 2012 Shrimp Louisville - R3A2 recipe from the Day Before Cookbook
  
• March 2012 Boiled Shrimp for Shrimp Louisville or for whenever you need boiled shrimp
• March 2012 Matzo Crunch (Passover)
• March 2012 Almond Macaroons (Passover)
• 2011, the inaugural year
• December 2011 Tofu Salad - (vegan) R3A2 recipe from the Moosewood Cookbook - (a one-page pdf of the recipe is here)
  
• December 2011 Pam Reiss's SOUP (cookbook)'s Jade Soup (a one-page pdf of the recipe is here)
• July 2011 Phil's Aunt Shayna's Broccoli Salad
• July 2011 Marian Burros' Plum Torte, the R3A2 version of that recipe from The New York Times that is all over the web
  
• July 2011 Note on Keeping Butter and Eggs at Room Temperature
• May 2011 Welcome to the blog. This is where I keep some of my favorite recipes, in my long-winded but instructive versions. They contain all the advice and warnings you - or I - need in order to avoid some mistakes I (but probably not you) have made in the past.

Last modified March 7, 2015 - rjm