User contributions for Walter Tau
A user with 2,786 edits. Account created on 27 April 2007.
25 May 2024
- 12:5812:58, 25 May 2024 diff hist +655 User talk:KatnissEverdeen →Re: Ross Ulbricht photo: new section Tag: New topic
23 May 2024
- 22:0722:07, 23 May 2024 diff hist +33 Ross Ulbricht added linkedin profile with Ulbricht's photo
- 21:0321:03, 23 May 2024 diff hist +132 Ross Ulbricht this is Ulbricht linkedin photo, which had copyrights auto-surrended according to LinkedIn policies. Tag: Reverted
- 00:1800:18, 23 May 2024 diff hist +117 Backlog of unexamined patent applications updated the backlog number based on today's infor.
22 May 2024
- 23:5823:58, 22 May 2024 diff hist +141 Glossary of patent law terms →On-sale bar: expanded the "onsale bar" status to other countries.
- 23:5623:56, 22 May 2024 diff hist +163 Glossary of patent law terms →Office action: not all Office Actions deal with allowance or rejections.
- 23:5323:53, 22 May 2024 diff hist +80 Glossary of patent law terms →Nullity action: most nullity actions are done onot by the courts, buth rather by executive agencies.
- 23:4523:45, 22 May 2024 diff hist +27 Glossary of patent law terms →Novelty: trade secrets are NOT a prior art to patents.
- 23:3923:39, 22 May 2024 diff hist +64 Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/USPTO trying to get other editors to work on draft Draft:Georgia-Pacific_Corp._v._United_States_Plywood_Corp. current
- 23:0323:03, 22 May 2024 diff hist +14 Modafinil a "decline in cognitive functions", when taking Modafinil, was reported only at high doses, i.e. several times higher than what is needed for wakefulness.
- 21:1121:11, 22 May 2024 diff hist −1 Russia →Early history: Since there is a wiki-article aboout Finnic peoples, there is no need to expand this statement to Ugrians.
- 21:0821:08, 22 May 2024 diff hist +2 Russia →Etymology: it seems that the paragraph about Primary Chronicle should be moved up, because it is the oldest reference source in the section.
- 21:0321:03, 22 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Russia although I am an American, I believe that in British English it is also proper to write "[its] cultural capital".
- 20:4820:48, 22 May 2024 diff hist +224,088 John B. Goodenough →Works: I created a complete list of Goodenough's works based on Scopus, Web of Science and The Lens. I worked wih John on new battery chemistries in the 1990's
- 20:1620:16, 22 May 2024 diff hist −5 m John B. Goodenough typo
- 20:1620:16, 22 May 2024 diff hist +18 John B. Goodenough I reshiffled Goodenough's affiliations, because his primary appointment was at Materials Science, and all other departments were adjuct appointments. I was a collaborator of John in the 1990's.
- 20:1020:10, 22 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Alexander II (statue in Helsinki) →Reception: 1) the title "Grand Duke of Finland" is traditionally capitalized in English. 2) composit sentence requires comma before "that" in both British and American English; current
- 19:5219:52, 22 May 2024 diff hist +2 User:Walter Tau No edit summary current
- 19:4619:46, 22 May 2024 diff hist +6 m Sovereign funds of China →Significance: closing parenthesis ) was missing. Plus other minor fixes. Has any other editor checked this article? There may be some more typos left.
20 May 2024
- 22:2022:20, 20 May 2024 diff hist +612 Inventor (patent) I added more about the US case law, because it is more developed than the law of any other country.
19 May 2024
- 19:2119:21, 19 May 2024 diff hist +751 Sovereign funds of China →Significance: I am surprised, that the previous editors, while making numerous references to Zoe's book, missed the most important conclusion emphasized by the author from the beginning.
18 May 2024
- 21:4021:40, 18 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Superconcentrated electrolytes formatting current
- 17:4417:44, 18 May 2024 diff hist +10 Patent prosecution →Reissue, reexamination and interference: most laypeople in the USA and other countries have never heard of declaratory judgements. Fortunately, there is a wiki-article about it. current
- 12:5612:56, 18 May 2024 diff hist +1 m International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine →Effect on global food supply: here "an obstacle" is a better English than "the caveat"
15 May 2024
- 20:2920:29, 15 May 2024 diff hist +339 User talk:Evgeny →Nuclear fusion: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:2418:24, 15 May 2024 diff hist +840 User talk:Evgeny →Nuclear fusion: new section Tag: New topic
- 15:1115:11, 15 May 2024 diff hist +127 m Nuclear fusion →In stars: additional clairification with wiki-xlinks Tag: Reverted
- 15:0715:07, 15 May 2024 diff hist +197 Nuclear fusion →In stars: Since I hear often, that nuclear fusion is "sustainable clean energy", I had to clarify, that it is only the start fusion, that is sustainable. The ITER-type fusion is NOT sustainable, because it requires 7Li isotope, i.e. a finite resource. Tag: Reverted
- 11:4111:41, 15 May 2024 diff hist +3 m Russian invasion of Ukraine →Ukrainian revolution, Russian intervention in Crimea and Donbas: replaced "utilised" with "referred to" for a more proper English.
10 May 2024
- 22:0822:08, 10 May 2024 diff hist +4 Patent prosecution →Preparation of an application: it makes sense to add a wiki-link to America Invents Act, since more obscure Patent Reform Acts are linked.
9 May 2024
- 22:4422:44, 9 May 2024 diff hist −22 m John Mearsheimer →The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy: I had to add "for example", because Walt and Mearsheimer provide other examples too.
- 22:1922:19, 9 May 2024 diff hist +69 Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I made a more detailed explanation of what is written in the cited references.
- 22:0722:07, 9 May 2024 diff hist +24 Hafnium controversy →Background: I explained, that stimulated emission in this case would translate into a gamma-ray laser. current
- 15:4615:46, 9 May 2024 diff hist +3,027 Patent prosecution →Preparation of an application: I wrote a section about GracePeriod for Self-Disclosure. Since I have personal experience only with the USPTO (I used referenced article for other jurisdictions) I encourage non-US editors to review my statements.
27 April 2024
- 11:5711:57, 27 April 2024 diff hist +13 m Thermobaric weapon I fixed the sentence to make less confusing.
25 April 2024
- 12:3012:30, 25 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Foreign relations of India comma not period
22 April 2024
- 23:0623:06, 22 April 2024 diff hist +67 Nuclear weapon →Governance, control, and law: I corrected the Figure Caption
- 19:2019:20, 22 April 2024 diff hist +330 User talk:William M. Connolley →RE:why do we want a zillion extra sources for the same statement?: new section Tag: New topic
21 April 2024
- 15:1315:13, 21 April 2024 diff hist +187 John Mearsheimer →Offensive realism: added a link to Mearsheimer early prediction of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Tag: Reverted
- 13:3513:35, 21 April 2024 diff hist +1,545 John Mearsheimer →Offensive realism: added several recent references to support a statement written by another editor. Tag: Reverted
- 13:1813:18, 21 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Nuclear weapon →Governance, control, and law: formatting
- 13:1513:15, 21 April 2024 diff hist −94 Nuclear weapon →Governance, control, and law: I replaced an oldfigure with a newer one. It is believed to be in the free domain, as comissioned by the US Federal government.
- 02:2602:26, 21 April 2024 diff hist −4 Oleg Tsaryov →Early life: the proper English translation of his major is "Applied Physics"
16 April 2024
- 17:3817:38, 16 April 2024 diff hist +35 Bosnian genocide the article did not explain, what ICJ stands for. I provided a wiki-link.
14 April 2024
- 17:2917:29, 14 April 2024 diff hist +6 m Qatar diplomatic crisis →Riyadh Summit 2017: proper English requires the use of "to" with a verb in the infinitive form.
- 17:1117:11, 14 April 2024 diff hist +12 OPEC →2022: oil production cut: the previous version of this sentence was very confusing. it took me several times reading it to understand, what it meant. I fixed the sentence to become more clear.
- 17:0617:06, 14 April 2024 diff hist +16 m OPEC →2021–present global energy crisis: improved English style
12 April 2024
- 23:1223:12, 12 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Ukrainian refugee crisis fixed a typo= replaced comma with a period.
- 22:4022:40, 12 April 2024 diff hist +23 m Symon Petliura →Career to 1917: please see my previous edit for explanation
- 22:3722:37, 12 April 2024 diff hist +9 m Symon Petliura →Career to 1917: when reading this article as written, mane people may not understand, that Lemberg, Lwow and Lviv is the same city.