The invisible architecture of a patent claimHow the language of a patent claim shapes what can and cannot be protected — and why most inventors get it wrong.IP & Patents
ART-0012024 · 8 min
Writing fiction when you know too muchThe strange problem of technical expertise in literary fiction — when the detail you know best is the detail that kills the story.Writing
ART-0022024 · 6 min
Prior art and the myth of the lone inventorEvery invention stands on the shoulders of prior work. The patent system knows this. Most inventors do not.IP & Patents
ART-0032023 · 10 min
What poetry taught me about precisionA patent claim and a poem share the same demand: every word must earn its place. The discipline transfers.Writing
ART-0042023 · 5 min
The geography of belongingOn living between Mumbai and London — and the particular loneliness of being fluent in two worlds but native to neither.Identity
ART-0052023 · 7 min
Software patents and the problem of abstractionWhen the invention is an idea expressed in code, the boundaries of protection become genuinely philosophical.IP & Patents
ART-0062022 · 12 min
How to read a novel you wroteThe strange experience of returning to finished work — what you see that you did not intend, and what you intended that no one sees.Writing
ART-0072022 · 6 min
The migrant’s second languageNot the language you learn when you move — the second language is the one you develop to explain yourself to people who have never moved.Identity
ART-0082022 · 8 min
Claim construction and the art of interpretationPatent litigation often turns on a single word. Understanding how courts read claims is the most important skill a consultant can have.IP & Patents
ART-0092021 · 11 min
On writing characters who are smarter than youThe novelist’s oldest problem: how to write a genius convincingly when you are not one. The answer is not what most writing guides suggest.Writing
ART-0102021 · 7 min
What home means after twenty years abroadA meditation on the word "home" — how it shifts, what it costs to let it shift, and whether it ever settles.Identity
ART-0112021 · 9 min
The ethics of trade secretsTrade secrets protect what patents cannot. But the protection comes at a cost that most companies do not fully account for.IP & Patents
ART-0122020 · 9 min