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Rackspace and Github accused of patent infringement(news.priorsmart.com)
2 points by VanL 14y ago|1 comments
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by VanL 14y ago
Patent exhaustion is about liability for infringement, not infringement itself.
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by VanL 14y ago
The rule is that you can be liable if you make, use, sell, or import the infringing device. In theory, end users are also liable. Individuals as end users usually are accused - no upside. Businesses as end users sometimes get sued.
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by VanL 14y ago
There are appealable issues relative to exhaustion. If I were Samsung, I would file on both issues (infringement and exhaustion) to preserve for appeal.
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by VanL 14y ago
Umm, you are mistaken. Yes, they found there was patent exhaustion. They also found that the patents were not infringed. Exhaustion is a completely separate issue from infringement.
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by VanL 14y ago
What people who have not been in court don't realize is that Apple won on the narrative. Find the good guy, find the bad guy, and the bad guy will almost always be found to "lose." Many times, patent cases are argued like someone was trespa
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by VanL 14y ago
I am conflicted about Apple. In one way, they are using their patents exactly as intended under the system: They innovated, disclosed their innovations in a patent (and I have looked at a few, the disclosures are pretty good, as patents go)
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An IP lawyer on patents, trolls, and entrepreneurship(inc.com)
23 points by VanL 14y ago|14 comments
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by VanL 14y ago
Probably. I approach patents with the default position that any given patent is either invalid or irrelevant. 99.5% of the time I am right.
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by VanL 14y ago
The hyperventilating in this article is ridiculous. First, patents always issue on a Thursday - and any large company usually has a number in the pipe. There is nothing unusual about a company the size of Apple getting 25 patents issued in
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by VanL 14y ago
Umm, yes I do. Shark Tank notwithstanding, I am a patent lawyer, and I see these deals all the time.
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by VanL 14y ago
No, patents are sold encumbered by their previous licenses. Another entity may acquire the patents, but the portfolio would still be subject to this agreement. The issue is the ambiguity of "defensive" action gives the assignee of the paten
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by VanL 14y ago
Have you considered the reduction in cross-license value that this causes to the patents? Cross-licenses may be ugly, but they are much better than litigation because they allow companies to get back to actually doing productive stuff. Most
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by VanL 14y ago
I celebrate the impulse that gives rise to this, but I am skeptical that it will work in the long run. The reason why is that these sort of documents are social contracts just as much as they are legal contracts - this is Twitter saying pub
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Startup Row Winners for PyCon 2012 announced(pycon.blogspot.com)
18 points by VanL 15y ago|1 comments
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by VanL 15y ago
Unfortunately, "haters gonna hate" doesn't offer much comfort when you are the target of the attacks. I hope you know that we all appreciate what you both do - and what you both give up.
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by VanL 15y ago
Everyone helping with PyCon is an unpaid volunteer. At the highest levels, like what jnoller is doing, that means roughly 1000 hours of hard, unpaid work over a six month timeframe. It is a second job. In return, the chair doesn't even get
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Startup Row is coming to PyCon 2012(pycon.blogspot.com)
38 points by VanL 15y ago|7 comments
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by VanL 15y ago
Unfortunately, this article is just speculation. IBM is processing and mining the patent database, but everything else in the article - particularly the parts about about finding prior art ("battling patent trolls") is the from the ExtremeT
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by VanL 15y ago
The cheese.
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by VanL 15y ago
A number of sizable and well-respected law firms will take your case on contingency if they believe that it is a good enough case and you can win. Upside is that you can get good lawyers able to help you, and if you lose, you won't be out t
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by VanL 15y ago
Do I understand you correctly that you cannot even stand the idea of someone talking positively about God? I am trying to think of another context in which your sentence (In <genre>, the sole purpose of <noun> is to mocked,
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Paul Graham to keynote PyCon 2012(pycon.blogspot.com)
68 points by VanL 15y ago|1 comments
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by VanL 15y ago
Not necessarily a meager payout. They don't want to kill the host (as per PG's essay), but non-practicing entities are much more likely to swing for the fences - asking for, litigating toward, and receiving large damage awards. They have le
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Writing a good proposal for PyCon (or any conference)(pycon.blogspot.com)
19 points by VanL 15y ago|0 comments
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by VanL 15y ago
They reinvented Zope -- Zope 2, specifically. ( http://www.zope.org/the-world-of-zope ) Lets see: * Each item has a name, check. * Items can include other items by name, check. * Through-the-web editing, check. * Integrated user/role manage
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by VanL 15y ago
I can agree with a lot of what this guy says, but note his bias: he is an attempted troll who lost and now has a serious case of sour grapes. Specifically, check the "Odom v. Microsoft" case he cites in this article - the author of this pie
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by VanL 15y ago
Abstract: I prove that if markets are efficient, meaning current prices fully reflect all information available in past prices, then P = NP, meaning every computational problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be s
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Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP(moneyscience.com)
19 points by VanL 15y ago|4 comments
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by VanL 15y ago
You say "If the patents are bogus, they would be easy to dispatch in court with prior art." this is false. Nothing is ever easy in court, and invalidating patents is especially so-by design. There is a presumption of validity that attaches

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