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by WildUtah 12y ago
Any EU citizenship is more useful and less dangerous and more lucrative and more flexible and subjects you to less world-wide paperwork, tax, and business restrictions. So Estonia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia (or is it Slovakia?), L
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by WildUtah 12y ago
A patent can have many claims. For instance, 1. A system for sending and receiving email. You can probably find prior art for that. 2. Claim 1 where the email is sent over a TCP/IP network And probably you can find prior art for that.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
From Fonar v. GE, 1996: “As a general rule, where software constitutes part of a best mode of carrying out an invention, description of such a best mode is satisfied by a disclosure of the functions of the software. This is because, normall
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Take something like bribing officials in developing countries to get contracts. European companies are far more likely to engage in such behavior than American ones." It's legal for European companies to bribe foreign govern
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"the U.S. legal system lacks people, particularly judges, with technical backgrounds, yet at the same time are intensely unhappy with the decisions of the Federal Circuit" Agreed that what we need are smart generalist judges who c
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Well, that's one interpretation of the history of patent law. Another might note that patentees became enormously more powerful when the CAFC was created, winning a much higher proportion of cases. The metastatic growth of the patent s
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by WildUtah 12y ago
You can look it up. There are 12 seats for judges, all currently filled. Six retired judges are on active senior status and can take as many or as few cases as they would like. They all have Wikipedia biographies. Notice that patent lawyers
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by WildUtah 12y ago
OP Cites Judge Prost's dissent in Alice, "The majority has failed to follow the Supreme Court’s instructions—not just in its holding, but more importantly in its approach." But that was about the awful judgement of the three-
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US8712797 Discussion: http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/05/business-method-patent.h...
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The Patent Office considers everything patentable. Last month they issued a patent on literally calling up two pharmacies to pick the one that offered your drug cheaper. They even fast tracked that application and didn't ask a single f
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Seldom have I seen a serious site that would be improved by switching to Comic Sans and Papyrus, but here one is.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Challenging a DMCA takedown requires you to accept that your whole site will be taken down for ten days while you wait to have a right to challenge the takedown. Businesses or projects that have to keep functioning have to comply with any t
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by WildUtah 12y ago
At the first hearing, Sen. Whitehouse [0] (D-RI) told reformers that we should be careful. He congratulated us for getting a bill through the House in this session where that house of Congress seems to determined to be uncooperative. He war
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by WildUtah 12y ago
how often do you see a patent and think to yourself, "Gosh, this patent is really complicated Never. Software patents are almost always intended to monopolize some trivial and obvious function in such a way as to make the established
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Unfortunately, most people here on HN seem think that patents are on ideas, not inventions. Unfortunately, the Patent Office and the Court Of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the patent court) agree with the people who think patents are o
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by WildUtah 12y ago
They should put the customs agents and immigration police on the train and have them go down the aisles clearing passengers while the train is in motion. Then there's no waiting. You walk through the nude rape-o-scanners at Penn Statio
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued this decision, not the Ninth Circuit court that handles appeals from California. The CAFC is the patent appeals court and takes this case because there were patent issues in addition to th
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I switched from tabs to spaces about a decade ago and I've never regretted it. I seldom find files written by crazy people who think 8 spaces is a viable tab width anymore so I can pretty much adjust to whatever nice 2 space or wastefu
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by WildUtah 12y ago
More to the point, the FCC will not approve open source radio drivers. Your baseband will either be closed and under the control of your carrier and various government spies or it will be illegal in the USA. The official reason is that open
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by WildUtah 13y ago
This is only possible because SF street parking is wrongly priced. If parking meters charged enough so that there were always at least one parking stall available on the street within two blocks of everywhere in the city, you'd never b
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by WildUtah 13y ago
Compared to Europe or Asia or Latin America, SF public transit is a pathetic disaster. Just because transit is slightly better in SF than in Atlanta or Antarctica doesn't make it other than broken. Even third world cities the size of
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by WildUtah 13y ago
"Broadband and cell data will substitute perfectly for "voice service"... what gives? reply" They substitute only if everyone you want to call has Skype or GVoice or something. If you want to call people with phone numbe
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by WildUtah 13y ago
Mexicans do not expect their government to use this kind of authority to actually pursue and stop violent criminals. The level of cynicism and suspicion toward government is astonishing to me, even as an American. IT makes me a little proud
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by WildUtah 13y ago
Slim's Telmex monopoly drove Mexico's voice telecom prices to the highest in the first world, though competition and regulation have now reduced them somewhat . Data and internet prices are pretty reasonable. Home broadband connec
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by WildUtah 13y ago
Apple Computer Corporation has made hundreds of billions with Samsung as their main supplier of screens and CPUs for their most profitable product -- the iPhone. So there's at least one company that has had a great experience working w
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by WildUtah 13y ago
This makes me really miss Groklaw. For the first trial, Apple v. Samsung, we had regular reports with 1. Daily trial reports on testimony and motions 2. Analysis of the patents involved 3. Descriptions of the legal issues invo
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by WildUtah 13y ago
To infringe a patent, you have to make, use, sell, or offer to sell, or import an infringing product or process. [0] Google writes software that could be used to make such a device but it actually produces very few such devices itself. Appl
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by WildUtah 13y ago
Patent judges with experience seem like a good idea at first, but they quickly become patent maximalists that always favor patent holders against small businesses and innovators. Specialist judges that handle one subject area in particular
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by WildUtah 13y ago
Trolls still always have the option of filing in East Texas. As long as they can rely on a nest of less than objective judges eager to serve troll interests, they don't have to worry about fee awards. The decision left a lot of power t
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by WildUtah 13y ago
I refer you to the awful and smart patent troll promoter Gene Quinn: "How long will it take the Federal Circuit to overrule this inexplicable nonsense? The novice reader may find that question to be ignorant, since the Supreme Court i

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