Samuel Byrne

@sambyrne

IP partner @ Hale & Mercer. Ex-engineer. Galway → Chicago. J/24 'Tuesday', Belmont Harbor. 20m most evenings. Button accordion, Sundays.

📍 Chicago · 🔗 Hale & Mercer LLP · 📅 Joined 2013

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Samuel Byrne @sambyrne · 9 Oct 2026

Wednesday-night series is over for the year. Tuesday finished fourth in fleet. We have never won. We have never not shown up. Both of these are the point.

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Samuel Byrne @sambyrne · 30 Sep 2026

Worked a station in the Falklands on 20 metres last night from the attic in Logan Square. 7,300 miles on 100 watts and a wire. Nobody at the office finds this as exciting as I do.

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Samuel Byrne @sambyrne · 17 Sep 2026

If your product's core IP lives in a contractor's head and a GitHub repo they own, you do not have a company. You have a hope. Fix the paper this week.

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Samuel Byrne @sambyrne · 1 Sep 2026

Sunday session at Chief O'Neill's. Played the Kesh in the wrong key for two bars. The fiddler noticed. The fiddler always notices.

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Samuel Byrne @sambyrne · 10 Aug 2026

Pushed a fix to an open-source parsing library this morning that I first used in 2006. Keeps me honest about what my clients actually ship.

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Samuel Byrne @sambyrne · 20 Jul 2026

A trade mark is not a logo. A trade mark is what a customer thinks of when they see the logo. Register the first; design the second.

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Samuel Byrne @sambyrne · 26 Jun 2026

My grandfather's radio shop on Shop Street closed in 1999. The soldering iron is on my desk. Every client with a hardware patent gets to hear about it.

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