In partnership with

See this week's breakthrough USPTO patent grants!

An AI scheduling assistant that lives up to the hype.

Skej is an AI scheduling assistant that works just like a human. You can CC Skej on any email, and watch it book all your meetings. It also handles scheduling, rescheduling, and event reminders.

Imagine life with a 24/7 assistant who responds so naturally, you’ll forget it’s AI.

• Smart Scheduling
  Skej handles time zones and can scan booking links

• Customizable
  Create assistants with their own names and personalities.

• Flexible
  Connect to multiple calendars and email addresses.

• Works Everywhere
  Write to Skej on email, text, WhatsApp, and Slack.

Whether you’re scheduling a quick team call or coordinating a sales pitch across the globe, Skej gets it done fast and effortlessly. You’ll never want to schedule a meeting yourself, ever again.

The best part? You can try Skej for free right now.

Sign up for free

Table of Contents

• This Week's Patent News

• Weekly Statistics

• Main Article

• Trivia (question)

• Featured Inventor

• Today in Patent History

• Our Features

• Centurion Patentors

• Trivia (answer)

• Recommendations

This Week's Patent News:

1. 📚 Authors Allowed to Include Pirated Datasets in Lawsuit Against Anthropic. A judge ruled that authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement may include claims involving pirated datasets used to train AI models. This decision could significantly impact future IP litigation involving generative AI.

2. 🏛️ Federal Circuit Applies Prosecution History Disclaimer to Design Patents. In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that prosecution history disclaimer applies to design patents. The decision reversed a jury verdict and clarified the scope of protection for design patent holders.

3. ⚖️ Federal Circuit Affirms Noninfringement in Egenera v. Cisco. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a district court’s finding of noninfringement in a patent case involving server virtualization. Egenera’s late claim construction argument was rejected, reinforcing the importance of preserving issues at trial.

4. 🧾 Senate Hearing Labels AI Training as “Mass IP Theft”. During a Senate Judiciary hearing, lawmakers criticized generative AI companies for ingesting copyrighted works without permission. Senator Josh Hawley called it “the largest IP theft in American history,” urging Congress to intervene.

Enter John Wesley Hyatt, an inventive mind driven by curiosity and the promise of possibility. Through relentless experimentation with cellulose and camphor, Hyatt pioneered celluloid, the worlds first synthetic plastic. Though born from the narrow goal of preserving elephants, celluloids potential transcended the billiard table. It became the backbone of early film reels, revolutionized personal items like combs and buttons, and ultimately ignited the modern plastics industry.

Hyatt’s creation was more than just a material; it embodied a pivotal shift from dependence on scarce natural resources to the era of synthetic ingenuity. Much like the automated telephone exchange that liberated communication from human intermediaries, celluloid freed manufacturing from the constraints of nature, offering scalability, versatility, and a gateway to countless innovations.

In saving elephants, Hyatt inadvertently reshaped the material world.

👉 Like stories like this?
Subscribe to IDiyas, where we spotlight the genius behind forgotten patents, everyday innovations, and the minds who made history.

📬 Join 40,000+ curious readers - It’s free.

Please scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to find out.

Jaap Haartsen: The Man Who Cut the Cord

His mission? Replace the spaghetti mess of serial cables connecting our early gadgets with a clean, invisible handshake of short-range radio waves. No big deal, just reinvent personal connectivity.

Originally dubbed “MC Link” (which sounds more like a rapper than a protocol), the technology was rebranded "Bluetooth" after a Viking king known for uniting warring tribes. The metaphor stuck, and so did the tech. Today, Haartsen’s elegant solution powers everything from smartwatches to car stereos to that awkward Bluetooth bathroom scale you pretend not to own.

Unlike flashier tech figures, Haartsen didn’t seek the limelight. But his low-energy, high-impact design earned him induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2021. Not bad for a guy whose idea started with, "What if phones talked to accessories without wires?"

If Steve Jobs made the smartphone sexy, Jaap Haartsen made it sociable. Thanks to him, we now live in a world where devices pair faster than some relationships, and drop the connection just as often. But hey, that’s not his fault. Blame your Bluetooth speaker.

Because Western Union was drowning in traffic. Telegraph lines were jammed. More business meant more messages, but not more wires. Edison’s Sextuplex Telegraph changed the economics of the industry. More throughput, less infrastructure. It became a major turning point in high-speed data before anyone called it that.

📡 Fun Fact: Edison had already created a Quadruplex. Sextuplex was the next-level power play, and it helped solidify his position not just as an inventor, but as a systems thinker.

So next time you’re juggling six Slack messages at once, thank Edison for the original multitasking machine.

Used by Execs at Google and OpenAI

Join 400,000+ professionals who rely on The AI Report to work smarter with AI.

Delivered daily, it breaks down tools, prompts, and real use cases—so you can implement AI without wasting time.

If they’re reading it, why aren’t you?

Join 400K+ pros

Congratulations to last week's Centurion Patentors!
We are excited to welcome the following inventors into these prestigious patent clubs:

For more info about their research & patents, click here

Answer: Bosch's diesel fuel injection system. It has been covered by over 1,000 patents, helping reduce vehicle emissions and improve fuel efficiency in diesel engines.

In Partnership with

Learn AI in 5 minutes a day

What’s the secret to staying ahead of the curve in the world of AI? Information. Luckily, you can join 1,000,000+ early adopters reading The Rundown AI — the free newsletter that makes you smarter on AI with just a 5-minute read per day.

Sign up to start learning.