Andy Kerr

Attorney w/interests in IP, global brands, technology, economics, privacy, antitrust, photography, sports and adventure.

[Earth @earthcurated]

Himalayas, Nepal 🇳🇵

[Kurtis Alexander @kurtisalexander]

Afternoon light on El Cap in Yosemite

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

How a dog looks in spider costume

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I spent two consecutive nights shooting Jupiter for hours. Here’s all the images played back in a sequence. You can watch the transit of Io and the appearance of the Great Red Spot.

[Jessica Goldstein @jessicagolds]

When I heard about Arlington ultramarathoner @mikewardian running across the US—3,324 miles in 61 days—I just thought: who IS this guy?

So I got to know him for @washingtonian! I’m very glad I did. Read my profile in the September issue & online now:

https://t.co/Au4SaR25xv

[The Nature of Invention 🔬 @TnoiDoc]

What better time for a winter #patent than early February? This one improved cold weather air travel. On Oct. 12, 1971 Vernon H. Cook🇺🇸 was granted a @uspto patent for his invention, an "Aircraft deicing apparatus." See🔻below for a description & diagrams from the application. ✈️

[National Zoo @NationalZoo]

❄️🐼 Slides, somersaults and pure panda joy. Happy snow day from giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian! 🌨🐾
. . .
#SnowDay #PandaStory

[GeekWire @geekwire]

CES: These are the tech trends to watch for 2020 and beyond, according to show organizers https://t.co/Qiq1LrnUy7

[Scientific American @sciam]

New particle accelerator fits on a silicon chip https://t.co/BejRiHYZDk

[Bill Donahue @Bill__Donahue]

NEW: A federal appeals court just revived a #copyright case that accused a DC-area film festival of using a photo it found on the internet, overturning a ruling that said it was a "good faith" fair use of the image.

Here's the key quote:

[World Trademark Review @WTR_Alerts]

Audible gasps from the room as the JPO successfully demonstrates an early version of a smartphone app that detects trademark information from a photo. #INTA2018

[Proof of Use @ProofofUse]

The TTAB denied the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's likelihood of confusion claim against a pizza restaurant that mimics the Garden State Parkway sign https://t.co/uLb0nPV8am #trademarks

[Bill Donahue @Bill__Donahue]

Glad is suing a food storage brand called Fresh Guard for #trademark infringement over lookalike packaging:

[Charles Hill @chhill1213]

Deciding whether or not to spend the money on a design search: some considerations #INTA2018

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

At #TED2018, futurist Ray Kurzweil has just formally announced a new way to query the text inside books using something called semantic search — a search on ideas and concepts, rather than specific words. https://t.co/d6zhaPjj1t

[Jen Johnson @tPFmariah9999]

Beautiful 2018 Peak #CherryBlossoms at the #TidalBasin in #WashingtonDC @spann @JimCantore #cherryblossom #sunrise #cherryblossomsDC #travel #sakura

[CB Insights @CBinsights]

Where did American #VC funding go in Q4'17? Our latest MoneyTree report has full details on the global VC landscape in both Q4 and FY 2017. #Q4MoneyTree https://t.co/S3oQSzAmdZ

[Lance Ulanoff @LanceUlanoff]

Hypervsn, Kinomo’s analog answer to holograms, keeps getting better and better. @kino_mo_ #CES2018

[Michael Loney @mdloney]

"In Fiscal Year 2017, (Oct. 1, 2016 through Sept. 30, 2017), more than 425,000 new trademark applications were filed with the USPTO, an increase of more than 10% from the prior year" https://t.co/k8DqOUf6xs