Brandon Barr

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a part of U.S. design patent examination, but not in the way some practitioners may expect. The latest public USPTO materials do not identify a new, post-DesignVision AI tool dedicated to design patent examination. Instead, the more important development appears to be that DesignVision has moved from a newly announced search tool to a routine part of the design examination workflow.

Here are thirteen short stories of horror and suspense to make you feel you are not alone in the room--even when you think you are. A simple man falls victim to paranoia. A teenage girl wants what she wants--no matter what. Three different--but equally deadly--compulsive murderers. Two marriages that take chilling turns. A haunted house with a twisted ending. A man at the end of his career, and his eerily lifelike ventriloquist dummy. And more. Thirteen shorts in all. Make sure the lights are on.

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