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It's not clear from this press release that there's a fee to defend oneself. A 11k fee to file would surely make it less likely there would be trolls?
by etothepii 5y ago
It's not clear from this press release that there's a fee to defend oneself. A 11k fee to file would surely make it less likely there would be trolls?
- newaccount74 5y agoIf someone attacks you with a bogus patent, then it would cost 20.000€ to request invalidation of the bogus patent. From a quote near the bottom of the article: > Typically, in response the sued company could be advised to demand cancellation of the Unitary Patent by means of a counterclaim but in that case, it will be required to pay a court fee of EUR 20,000.
- stepbeek 5y ago11k is nothing to a patent troll like a FAANG (MAANG now?) but quite a lot to the kind of SME that - afaik - doesn’t engage in this behavior to the same extent.
- ByteJockey 5y ago> MAANG now? I keep hearing MANGA
- stepbeek 5y agoIf we substitute Netflix for Microsoft (I’m never sure why Netflix was chosen instead), we can have GAMMA which is my personal favorite.
- ectopod 5y agoWhy not have both? "The GAMMAN companies" has a nice ring to it.
- fortran77 5y agoI think it was originally for "Silicon Valley" companies, and Microsoft was up in Seattle.
- dlgeek 5y agoSo's Amazon. It was "high-growth large-cap tech stocks" at a specific point (where MSFT was flat) - it was a Wall Street thing, not a tech thing.
- PeterisP 5y ago> (MAANG now?) FAANG still has G for Google, not A for Alphabet. In a similar vein, we can (and perhaps should?) simply ignore Facebook's rebranding attempt - names are a social constrict, you don't get to unilaterally decide how others will call you.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago>names are a social constrict, typo as truth.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoWe can perhaps now just shorten it to "the man". I think at one point it was generally used to refer to exciting tech companies where people got paid really well and had an almost unreasonable standard of employment (meals provided for them etc). For the most part those companies have grown up and stuff like free coffee and fruit has become the standard across most offices.
- fortran77 5y agoIf only this were true! People wouldn't be kicked off open source projects.
- plumeria 5y agoIt is being referred to as MANGA in other places
- gruturo 5y agoTrolls have a reasonably large amount of money to burn if necessary, and they normally try to get their victims to settle before things reach any court. So no, this won't stop trolls, it will only deter a lot of legitimate cases from SMEs.
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