win is abo barton goes to work there in the early 1850s and becomes a clerk at the patent office. what is really radical about this is barton is going to ma making the same amount of money as her male counterparts, in fact, working in the same office. men and women working together side by side is mind blowing for people in the 1850s. she's going to have that job, make the same amount of money, about $1,200 a year. she's going to make the same amount of money as her male kou counterparts, the other clerks in the office. barton is then going to continue on with that job for several years living in different boardinghouses in washington, d.c., before she -- politics is going to get involved. in 1856, james buchanan is elected president. unfortunately, i just saw recently a book that says "james buchanan, worst president ever." he is the only president from pennsylvania, my home state, so i apologize to all of you. so with the election of james buchanan, he comes into office in 1857 and all women -- there were a handful of them working in the patent office at the time, in addition to

it feels like these pages are whispering at me the rows upon rows of files the patent office test tori's of brainwaves and strokes of genius of ideas that change the world of inventions that revolutionized research innovation that drove progress. every invention inspires further invention take the transition from more strong cards to cars right now we're in the process of taking another innovative step toward alternative fuels will eventually be seeing electric cars on the streets running on batteries and fuel systems and these systems will give rise to further inventions. but not all patents prove profitable some are rendered obsolete by progress others registered simply to hinder rivals research then they end up languishing in obscurity like the 1625415 which was registered 7 years ago. this patent for example belongs to taylor called it's a new method of location tracking must be a good idea but the company isn't using it what does that mean this is now the end for this patent or does it maybe get a 2nd chance. need a 2nd chance or a 3rd or even a 4th. tim palmer has a soft spot for n

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county claimed that men had stolen forces, and assaulted women, robbed families and even local patent office and committed more extreme acts of terror putting ropes around men's necks threatening to hang them. some soon complained that hard lining kansas had made was as firstly as upon sew sessionists and turning peaceful and quiet citizens into desperate guerillas. this en gulf much of the trans mississippi west and trans appalachian revealing the causative links between slavery and irregular warfare. >> in response, in part of what historian jim mcpherson had termed lincoln's strong arm strategy, the president gave long leash to union commanders who demonstrated the inclination and capacity for -- he often appointed politicians to ranks and promoted them regardless of political afillis. all mentioned were the earliest wen fisheries of lincoln's latitude allowing his soldier,'s put it, on the ground to engage in shocking treatment of sillian populations nearly as the war started. so to sher map who, after returning to kentucky following a bout of depression, worned by deep stints in deeply

scandalous trademarks ruling, the ruling the court said the first amendment for bids for the patent and trademark office from denying trademarks it deems immoral or scandalous. we can't say the name of the product on air without getting some amount of pushback from certain agencies in the government, but the product name was fuct. we will go from there. guest: this follows up on a couple of cases years ago in which a rock group called the slants filed for a trademark. they struck down certain provisions for offensive trademarks on first amendment grounds. here, this clothing designer, whichhe spelling of fuct, stands for phrases you can trust. you can pronounce it and figure out other ways to do it. was awas in -- there challenge to another provision that had to do with immoral and scandalous trademarks, and the supreme court, as they did in lee versus camps, said there was a first amendment right to this and suggested various ways in which congress might be able to clearlye laws for vulgar or obscene trademarks. the problem with these laws, which is not really of the courts making, is that they are ver

the ruling the court said the first amendment for bid the patent and trademark office from denying trademarks it deems immoral or scandalous. we cannot say the name of the product on the air without getting some amount of pushback from certain agencies. we will go from there. on a case aows up couple of years ago. group called the slants filed for a trademark and they struck down certain provisions on first amendment grounds. --e, this clothing designer he says it stands for friends you can trust. there was a first amendment challenge to another provision in the lanham act that had to do with immoral and scandalous trademarks. as they didcourt, in leave versus ham, said, there's a first it -- amendment right to this. in which various ways congress could amend the laws for clearly vulgar or up seen trademarks. the problem with these laws, not really of the courts making, is that they are very difficult to enforce. it is the government that is enforcing them. you could come up with ulcerative examples. they will say something that appears to be picking sides on various political issues with res

patent and trademark office has denied the 26-year-old rapper's request to trademark that catchphrase say pepsi is krrr? >> excuse me? >> of course pepsi is krrr. >> is she okay? >> why aren't you understanding? krrr? >> what kind of word is that. krrr? >> u.s. patent and trademark officials say the phrase is considered a widely used, commonplace expression. especially after janai wouldn't stop saying it a few months ago. >> what? oh, that's a tough loss for cardi. >>> and it's the video that's been going viral all weekend involving a grandpa and lady gaga. >> twitter users shared this video showing the expression on their grandfather's face after she surprised him with tickets to see lady gaga perform at her las vegas residency. >> the expression of pure joy captured on camera, posted on friday, has now been viewed nearly 5 million times. he's so happy. for gaga. >> grandpa and gaga, obviously they go hand in hand. >> imagine if she pulls him up on stage. grandpa going gaga over gaga. some big news from mr. clean. stop struggling to clean tough messes with sprays. try new clean freak

to claim the land that you had already visited, so you would go to the treasurer's office in richmond to pay a patent fee, get a treasurers receipt, then to the auditor's office where you would get the treasurers receipt, then you would go to the land office, where the receipt and certificate entitled you to a land warrant, and then with the land warrant in hand you could return to kentucky, and in kentucky register with the county surveyor and have the land surveyed. so you go first of all to kentucky to find out where you want to be in the first place, then you go back and go through this elaborate series of steps in richmond to get all of the legal paper that you need go back to kentucky, and then you ire a surveyor to do a survey, and this is a lot of people are doing this at the same time and there is no system in place in kentucky to make sure that any of this occurs in an orderly way. then the surveyor issues you a certificate along with an endorsed warrant, then you would go back to richmond to receive a land title. this is impossible. nobody can do this right. so what happened in the course

women have looked at the cases of 14 chinese women being held to see if there were patents in their treatment by the home officeeliberately refusing to protect these women and is knowingly inflicting further harm and trauma on them. in four of the cases they reviewed, for example, women where detained directly from massage parlors or brothels, so the very situations where they are being directly exploited. she said the women were not getting help or support but were being arrested and detained. another labour mp interrupted. what is behind many of the problems that she is describing is the way in which two separate responsibilities are sitting uncomfortably within the home office, the responsibility on modern slavery and their agenda for immigration enforcement. jess phillips quoted other studies suggesting trafficking victims were being routinely detained and she said that had to stop. the home office needs to recognise immigration detention is harmful, costly and completely purposeless. there is nothing quite simply that justifies its continuing use. immigration cases can be resolved much more humanely and ef

office. individuals coming into find out if their ancestors had gotten a homestead or passes. -- patent. if you know what i'm talking about, people nodding. maybe they had gotten a mining claim. my parents got a mining claim in the san bernardino national forest in the 70's. they held onto it for 10 years. if you are an employee of the national archives long enough, you get to see a record of your family come across your desk at one point. that was cool to see the application. it made me feel a little bit old, but that's ok. i'm going to show you some examples. what just happened? i think i bumped something. i'm good. a couple examples. one of early survey plaques, which is neat. then a story about an employee. basic information about land ownership. if it goes from the federal hands, then it is in the public domain. you will find many land transactions. homesteads, mining, rights-of-way, transfers of ownership from federal government to private individuals or entities through a homestead or patent. usually after the transfer, the government is no longer involved. that is your land. you

most of the cases in that office or what that office is known for are patent infringement cases. they're not terrorism cases. so he has nothing in his background professionally that recommends him to this officer which involves a lot of coordinating work between national security agencies so you can present essentially a dashboard to the president about what the president needs to know on an inter agency basis. he has no experience with any of that, which obviously begs the question, then, of why is he being considered for the job. and i think he's being considered for the job because he's a trump loyalist. and i think trump -- i think the education of donald trump has taught him now to populate the various heads of these agencies with people who are first and foremost loyal to him. >> so, david, if, in fact, he is a trump loyalist, how troublesome is it to have a partisan dni? >> well, it's extremely troublesome. all you have to do is take the russia case where trump's position has been russia didn't really interfere. and where the trump administration has been trying to change

scandalous trademarks ruling, the ruling the court said the first amendment for bids for the patent and trademark office from denying trademarks it deems immoral or scandalous. we can't say the name of the product on air without getting some amount of pushback from certain agencies in the government, but the product name was fuct. we will go from there. guest: this follows up on a couple of cases years ago in which a rock group called the slants filed for a trademark. they struck down certain provisions for offensive trademarks on first amendment grounds. here, this clothing designer, whichhe spelling of fuct, stands for phrases you can trust. you can pronounce it and figure out other ways to do it. was awas in -- there challenge to another provision that had to do with immoral and scandalous trademarks, and the supreme court, as they did in lee versus camps, said there was a first amendment right to this and suggested various ways in which congress might be able to clearlye laws for vulgar or obscene trademarks. the problem with these laws, which is not really of the courts making, is that they are ver

mnuchin has privately been telling people pelosi has promised to vote on nca by october her office says that's patentlyse. is that going to happen? >> we think it's going to happen this fall, carl. we're disappointed it hasn't happened yet the reality, because of the budget cap deal, congress is going to be in more this fall than they have previously been so it gives us more of an opportunity to complete it pelosi will only bring it up for vote if she thinks it's in the best interest of her members when you see where vice president has been traveling, wisconsin and districts, where the dairy product has been greatly enhanced by this new deal traveling to michigan to talk about benefits to auto manufacturer workers today he's in ohio visiting a company, a canadian company building a plant in the united states for auto parts because the auto part protection provided also travel to districts, new mexico, represented by a democrat who needs to get this because of all the gas and oil exploration. you look at our strategy, it's to go into districts occupied by democrats to convey, this is needed for your own

office. a it was a full patent and certificate was issued, it is most likely going to be in the national archives in washington, d.c. the reason we would have it as if the entry person did not follow up and finished the application process. then we would have that. we have tens of thousands of these where they were either rights-of-way, leases, or people just did not follow up. but you can get great information out of them. this one covers part of old mission san fernando. pretty cool stuff. the next one i have. you can see the kalinga mountains down below. part of mission san fernando as well. that one has a little less detail to it. sometimes they had a secondary this oneother reasons has a little more detail. rancho la canada back at the bottom, a lot more homesteading and land entries north of it. thatdy know those areas would be interested in looking at those records? questions and find out. just a couple examples of some of the older records in the euro of land management. this is interesting. the full story is on our records page. i am going to give you basic information about it. if you a

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office. you sort of put it over your hand and went like this. and webs came out, you know. it was like who had a patent on this invention is what the case was about. when you come to writing an opinion like that, that is low hanging fruit. i have to say. you can't get a spiderman reference into a case like that, you're not working hard enough. but it was fun. i had a fun time writing that. not just because of the substance, which i think was important but because, you know, who can't have a good time writing about like spiderman gloves. and at the end, i think with the opinion,graph of the where i was talking about, i don't remember how it related to the substance of the decision, but what was it, with great power comes great responsibility, is that the idea? [laughter] sort of like we have the power to overrule cases but we have the responsibility to use that power. not often. it seemed appropriate. so which was your favorite spider-man movie? it's funny you mentioned that. i was just on a plane and i was london and irom just watched the spider burst movie. spider verse movie. i thought it was pretty

office. you sort of put it over your hand and went like this. and webs came out, you know. everywhere. right. it was like who had a patent on this invention is what the case was about. when you come to writing an opinion like that, that is low hanging fruit. you can't get a spiderman reference into a case like that, you're not working hard enough. but it was fun. i had a fun time writing that. not just because of the substance, which i think was substance, which i think was important, but because, you know, who can't have a good time writing about like spiderman gloves. and at the end, i think with the last paragraph of the opinion you talked about the last paragraph of my nic opinion but the last paragraph of the opinion where i was talking about, i don't even remember how it was related to the substance of the decision, but what was it, it was with great power it was related to the substance of the decision, but what was it, it was with great power comes great responsibility, is it seems appropriate. mr. treanor: which was your favorite spiderman movie? i was coming back from london i thought it was pretty good. [laugh

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