Matthew Doering

Home Comment Editorial Whoever first said, “you can’t make everyone happy, you’re not cheese,” got it wrong. Not even cheese can make everyone happy. Earlier this month, a U.S. appeals court upheld a court ruling from a year prior affirming the decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on a 2015 application. The ruling stated that “gruyere” is a generic term, not tied — at least not any longer — to a specific locality and so denied the application for a certification mark.

Home Comment It was on Sept. 26 that NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — after traveling for 10 months with a trajectory aimed at a small rock in the name of planetary salvation research — made contact and collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid about half the height of the Eiffel Tower. Earlier this month NASA declared the mission, which had the goal of pushing the asteroid a small distance closer to the larger asteroid it orbits, a success.