Date: December 2020

I recommend this honest tale of entrepreneurship by Zain Subhani in Inc. How Skyline Brands’ Zain Subhani Went From $2 Million in Debt to 1,000 Percent Growth | Inc.com Way to go Zain!

The USPTO issued it’s 2020 performance report. You can read it at USPTO annual reports | USPTO. The surprises are that in a Pandemic year that we still see a 9.6 percent increases in applications. The squawk at INTA related to the tougher position on audits and requirements for a U.S. attorney. The PTO expressed […]

On Lincoln Avenue in Chicago is an advert for one of the better trademarks of 2020: REVERB. As a guy with 30-years in this field, I spend my life watching marks that meet my taste for greatness: pithiness, relevance, edge, and distinctiveness. REVERB is such as mark as applied to the used musical instrument business. […]

So I was studying Talmud tractate “Ethics of the Fathers” aka Pirkai Avot. I keep thinking about Rabbi Hillel’s statement at Chapter 1, verse 14: If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am only for myself then what am I? If not now, then when? Well, here we […]

I am reading a book called Small Data. The author makes clear you need to focus small aspects of local life. The author, a Dane by birth, commented that the USA is ruled by fear. He says we try to make a big thing about being about freedom. I have been thinking about that and […]