{"id":9823,"date":"2018-07-07T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T17:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2018-07-15T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:40:12","slug":"mark-twain-and-the-federal-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9823","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain and the Federal Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next door to the Federal Circuit sits a statue of a somber woman in a cowl. \u00a0The statue is a replica of a statue that Henry Adams (grandson of President John Quincy Adams) commissioned after the death of his wife. \u00a0In 1909, Mark Twain visited the original statue and gave it the nickname “GRIEF.”<\/p>\n

The replica — ironically, an unauthorized replica — eventually made its way to the courtyard behind the Dolley Madison House, next door to the Federal Circuit.<\/p>\n

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“THE RULE 36 STATUE”<\/p><\/div>\n

If the original was nicknamed “GRIEF,” \u00a0what would be a good nickname for the replica? \u00a0How about “THE RULE 36 STATUE” or “THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHS IN ON PATENT ELIGIBILITY.” \u00a0Maybe “FIRST INVENTOR TO FILE.”<\/p>\n

I am somewhat reminded of the dust bowl photograph by “THE RULE 36 STATUE”:<\/p>\n

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Next door to the Federal Circuit sits a statue of a somber woman in a cowl. \u00a0The statue is a replica of a statue that Henry Adams (grandson of President John Quincy Adams) commissioned after the death of his wife. \u00a0In 1909, Mark Twain visited the original statue and gave it the nickname “GRIEF.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}