PatentTroll

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by PatentTroll 9y ago
First@Lastna.me I love it but it's hard incredibly hard to explain to customer sercice reps or family members that "no, not .com or anything, just my last name with a period before the last two letters."
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
No, I think we played around with it but decided to stick with the known quantity of the mainline interpreter, 'devil you know' and all. Because the types of bugs we found were not readily apparent at first, the types of things th
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Well, this was a few years ago to be fair, and we probably had one of the largest and most intensive Lua deployments in production at that time, if I had to guess. I'm just reporting my experience then, which is just what I experienced
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
I was on a team that used Lua in production on tens of thousands of machines running 24/7. The Lua interpreter was the weak link in the system, requiring at least daily restarts. Squashed so many bugs over the years, and still found mo
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Why not the "classics" like the Edsison light bulb or the Wright flyer patent? I consider the old ones to be beautiful
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Are there any viable chromium based open source browsers out there that have consistent updates?
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Honest question: why do you use hundreds of tabs at the same time? Why not bookmarks and leave a couple of the most important ones open? I have never understood the use case for "hundreds" of browser tabs
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Some would argue that NDCAL is that venue (Silicon Valley and all)
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Also probably wouldn't work - see the "stream of commerce" idea discussed above
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
1) the practical implications and difficulties in doing so, and 2) the "stream of commerce" theory which blurs the lines significantly. Even if a web site managed to exclude certain districts, it would be pretty easy to make the a
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
First of all, the Fed. Cir. doesn't only do patent cases! They also handle appeals from the court of federal claims (read: suing the government) and veterans matters among other stuff. But consider the reason why appellate jurisdiction
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Many district courts have designated judges for patent cases to try to take advantage of this
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Also, every one of those trials hires a local counsel when they're in EDTX, and those local counsel are, well, local. Lots of attorney's fees being racked up for just being a native to that district!
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Also note that it's not like DDEL or NDCAL don't have any patent experience, if memory serves me they are still among the top patent venues even at the height of the EDTX phenomenon.
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
District court judges are still bound by precedent from the Fed. Cir. and Sup. Ct. in patent cases - that's only part of the story. They also have wide latitude in how they organize and schedule their courts, giving rise to the so-call
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Yeah, it seems like the boldest choice one could make in that environment is to dress in a suit. The irony.
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
You need external regiments and mechanisms to stay on a schedule, complete projects, stay on task, and remember important things. People with ADHD spend considerable effort to establish and monitor these systems to keep them on track becaus
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
There is still a lot individual venues can do, a big part of why EDTX became a thing is that the jury pool was so unsophisticated and would often give lots of deference to an inventors personal story over the technical details of the case.
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Just FYI, the "big money" lobbyists in Washington are largely in favor of crippling the patent system. Large companies are generally the ones sued for infringement, usually by smaller companies.
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Just for anyone reading this, this is not how the patent system works anywhere in the world. Patents are examined by an examiner who is an employee of the government who exactly says that the patent is novel and non-obvious, that's wha
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Yeah, this is currently a huge problem with the patent system as a whole, and can be summarized in one word: lawyers. I believe the patent system has been hijaked by lawyers and has veered off course from the original intent (even though i
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Well, a number of comments here point to the success of the product due to that feature. If it was so obvious why didn't someone do it before?
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
That was definitely true around the time your links were written, 2010-2011 or so. A few things have shifted in the application of treble damages and some new avenues for avoiding prolonged patent battles that have prodded many to come arou
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Some are heralding the European courts as the next hot venue for patent trolling. I am not super current on it but so far I don't think that's particularly materialized. I think the delay and uncertainty of the UPC has a lot to do
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
The wright flyer was just sticks, canvas, and a small engine. Anybody could have done it - in fact there were teams around the world competing to be the first ones. The Wright brothers got a patent on it. Should they have?
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
This is cool, but there are companies which do prior art bounties out there, I wonder why they didn't use on of them? Also, they must be extremely serious about this. A $50k prior art budget is high - like very high - for this kind of
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Just want to provide a contrarian view here: patent assertion and 'trolling' is not necessarily a bad thing in theory. It can create a secondary monetization route for inventors, instead of asserting it themselves. Now, that'
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Well, it certainly has less utility than notepad.exe
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
This is no doubt true, but I don't think this is compatible with capitalism. Just nationalize BAE and Northrop and General Dynamics, etc. Keep the engineers on the payroll and keep the R&D going without the farce of procurement and
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Well, copyright covers an implementation of software, but a clean-room rewrite can get around a copyright of software. In that way, no, copyright is not a real way to protect software.

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