Thinking Makes It So
October 26: File before you publish, older patents at the Board, and China's export catalogue
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OpenAI's published applications on reasoning summaries (Pub. Nos. 2026/0330193 and 2026/0330194) and Google's on generalized residual attention blocks (Pub. No. 2026/0330219), and why a patent program files before anything is published; Google LLC v. VirtaMove, Corp., No. 25-1230 (U.S. Oct. 19, 2026) (certiorari denied) and the Patent Office's institution figures for fiscal year 2026; and…