Patent owners and innovators are urging the White House to reconsider the USPTO’s proposed IPR rule, warning it could insulate invalid patents and raise costs for American businesses. Strong innovation requires fair, predictable patent review. Read more from @RobertsonNickJ in @mlexclusive: mlex.com/mlex/intellectual-p…

There’s this never-ending debate about whether em dashes, semicolons, and colons have become signs of AI writing. As a result, many of us writers have stopped using them—swapping them for commas or reshaping sharp, effective sentences into something blander—to avoid suspicion. But AI was trained on the best of us. On millions of published works by real authors. It learned from our voices, our rhythms, our punctuation. And now we’re acting as if those marks somehow belong to machines. They don’t. Those tools were ours long before AI existed. Our teachers taught us how and when to use them, years before anyone imagined generative AI. So let’s take them back. Let’s use the full range of language with confidence. The em dash, the semicolon, the colon—they’re not signals of artificiality. They’re signs of craft. #WritingCommunity #writerslife

We've all seen the news stories about the various changes that the Trump Administration has brought to Washington, but activity at @USPTO's has flown under the radar for many. Recently, App Association President @Morganwreed sat down with @mlexclusive to discuss the latest developments at USPTO, saying that changes, specifically to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, will make the patent process "more difficult for small businesses."

The regulatory quagmire growing around AI is threatening to slow down innovation by small tech companies. This week more than 40 member companies from 32 states were in Washington to meet with lawmakers and administration officials to share their concerns. @morganwreed spoke with @CNBC ‘s @emrwilkins to emphasize our members are already ahead of policymakers developing innovations that would be impossible under last year's AI rules. Watch the clip👇

🚨Breaking: Responding to today’s announcement by Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. John James, @MorganwReed, president of the App Association, issued the following statement: “[This bill is] Meta’s self-serving solution to avoid their responsibility to protect kids is deplorable. It’s a one-size fits all approach built to solve problems social media platforms have with their systems while making small app developers collateral damage. This bill is not meaningfully different from the failed version introduced in the last Congress…It’s a bad bill for developers, for kids, for parents, and for the app economy.” actonline.org/2025/05/01/sta…