PatentTroll

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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Well what if the balls performance is due to patented innovations that the company wants to protect? We don't know the facts here, just some blogs opinion.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Make use sell or import are all patent infringement. Costco is at least selling, likely importing.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Doubtful. According to this site, the author is an editor at landslide magazine, a legitimate publication of the ABA: http://invention-protection.com/ip/partners/david_dawsey.htm...
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
This. The standards of vexatious litgtation are quite high, as they out to be. Otherwise every defendant would cry tort, and legitimately harmed parties would be dissuaded from using the legal system.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
What should we do about the 70 hour work week? Somewhat sarcastic, but mostly serious.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
This is true too. The billable hour billing practice incentivizes inefficiency. In some respects that makes the industry ripe for disruption, but it's staying power may suggest the opposite, that is, that the business isn't about
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Absolutely. If your job is data in -> data out, your job will be taken by a computer. Most of the work lawyers do is just this. Human lawyers will be relegated to client relations and high level strategy. Most documents will be first dra
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
On the flip side, in a consultancy you as the developer get paid, what 1/2 to 1/3of your hourly rate? That 1/2 or 2/3 goes to cover expenses, and then the rest is profit for the owner.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
This is how law firms work. In that sense, this is more like a partnership than a corporation.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
That's why fastmail is such a breath of fresh air. It has lots of features and is wicked fast.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Bad writers don't follow the rules. Good writers follow all the rules. Great writers know which rules to break when, and why, and have good reasons for doing so.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
I don't get the outrage over the rumored UWP only windows. There is no indication that MS would drop win32. This is a separate product, likely for a particular market. It's more of an iPad competitor than a Windows desktop replace
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
There are great stories about later in life success stories too. Just yesterday I was reading about Tom Clancey. In his mid 30s he was an insurance salesman. His first book published when he was 37. Not that I want to be an author, but that
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
For me it was 26. Einstein was 26 when he published his paper on relativity. Not that I was a physicist, or a genius, but the fact that a single person could have that much impact on the course of humanity at that age really messed with me.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Alice didn't 'disallow' software patents, as they weren't 'allowed' before Alice. In fact, software patents have never been patentable subject matter in US law. While Alice certainly has made it more difficult
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Can confirm. Have a friend who is in radiology residency, and I was completely shocked when I found out what radiologists do. When I told him that his job will be automated before he retires, he argued profusely against automation. But it&#
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
This! Windows hidpi or mixed dpi on different monitors is garbage. But that's a side effect of all of the backward compatibility of win32, right? Modern apps ("metro apps") scale just fine because it's a newer framework.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
All the old control panels and amin stuff is still present in Win10, isn't it? Also, you can do almost anything these days in powershell.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Thank you for writing this
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
That stood out to me too, I imagine it's more akin to 'skimming' than reading each word for comprehension. Most legal documents are highly repetitive, full of legalese filler, and generally you just need to get the gist of so
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Yup, I actually paid for two of these services before I realized they're just audio content. Great business for them, bad product for me.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
It isn't mentioned in the article, but one of the advantages of something like battery storage is the ability to regulate consumption and production on a millisecond timescale to regulate grid frequency. Anyone know if that is a part o
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Yup, that or YouTube comments.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Ah, the ol' free markets angle. So then, what would prevent any company with sufficient capital from monopolizing, well, everything? And what would be the reward for doing research? If another company can steal the research (and not pa
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Publish. Post to a blog and get it into the wayback machine, nobody will ever be able to patent it then.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Yeah, it's an impossible to implement idea. Lawyers would game the hell out of that system.
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Eh, the term isn't the worst part of software patents. Obviousness and bad law are the worst parts. The term only exacerbates the issue
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Copyright is no substitute for patents. If you implement that same thing in another language, it would probably be different enough to avoid copyright infringement. So the fact that this author has licensed software under copyright has noth
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
"Uber is just waiting until driverless cars are a thing and then they will own transportation." I hear this all the time, but realisticly that's at least a decade away. Are Ubers investors prepared to pour $24bn into the comp
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by PatentTroll 10y ago
Office. For any "real" word processing in the "real" world, there are no open source equivalents.

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