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by bdowling 5y ago
> This is an outdated stereotype. I totally agree. Most imports to the U.S., however, are of the low cost, low quality variety.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Most individuals and small companies should(*) just ignore patents they think are invalid because in almost all cases either (a) the patent is actually invalid and the patent owner won't actually litigate it or (b) the patent is valid
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by bdowling 5y ago
The fact that there are disputes over who has an IP right does not mean that IP law is an outright failure and should be abolished. By that logic, disputes over who committed a crime would mean that criminal law is an outright failure and s
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by bdowling 5y ago
In the U.S., the inventor must be a natural person. The owner, however, is often a corporation (e.g., when an employee invents something in the scope of employment). In that case the owner corporation applies for the patent in the inventor&
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by bdowling 5y ago
> ...as someone who invented earlier but did not file, you aren't going to be able to get that the patent reassigned to you. There's an exception: When a second applicant disclosed the invention publicly both prior to the first
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by bdowling 5y ago
The applicant recorded his AI as the inventor for some reason (*). Had the applicant recorded himself as the inventor having used the AI as a tool to invent, then the application probably would have been allowed. Using a mechanical process
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by bdowling 5y ago
Pretty much any suburban development of single family homes will include a restrictive coveant on each property that it may only be used for a single family dwelling. Lots of older neighborhoods in cities, however, don't have any such
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by bdowling 5y ago
Literally every shoe that I have bought in the past 10 years has been made in the USA: Allen Edmonds dress shoes, Red Wing (Heritage series) work boots, New Balance (USA 990 series) running shoes, Rainbow (USA series) flip-flops. These are
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by bdowling 5y ago
> In 2004 the state of Berlin sold 65000 flats for 405 million euro. So, the average price per flat was € 6,230. That sounds impossibly low. Or were these distressed, dilapidated properties?
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by bdowling 5y ago
> The term 'assault rifle' is used loosely by us, but in terms of law there are definitions: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1296 ... "Assault rifle" has a very s
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by bdowling 5y ago
The present value of an income stream starting in the future at the established rate may be higher in some cases than the present value of an income stream at a lower rate that starts immediately.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good outrage.
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by bdowling 5y ago
For some journalists, idealism trumps integrity.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> The hypothesis speculates that, if a building's assessed value is lowered, it could trigger conditions in loan contracts that penalize the landlord or investor. This is the issue exactly. A commercial mortgage lender will insist o
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by bdowling 5y ago
> pretty sure everything they did was 100% legal in their jurisdictions. Probably not, but they also uploaded the reverse-engineered source code and binaries to Github in the United States. They then filed DMCA counter-notices, which ope
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Then there's this bullshit: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/peak-design-accuses-amazon- ... I don't see how someone could confuse those two bags. Is the brand company claiming that no one else can make a
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by bdowling 5y ago
> because US laws require a posting US law does not generally require a job posting before hiring an employee. There are exceptions, however, including government employers, some government contractors, and employment of foreign national
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by bdowling 5y ago
> one of the positions was actually only posted for someone internally This is extremely common. A company can't allow for nepotism or favoritism, so it requires a public posting for any open position. Qualified external applicants
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by bdowling 5y ago
I read and posted on Slashdot daily in the early 2000s. Back then then it was all about politics and inaccurate/flamebait semi-tech stories with the credibility of a tabloid. So, I don't think Slashdot has really changed. Slashdot
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by bdowling 5y ago
> so I think the real question is whether it was copyrightable. Whether a particular thing is copyrightable or not is a question of law and fact. The government will accept your $25 for a copyright registration on anything you submit,
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by bdowling 5y ago
> By adverse possession, I get that 6 inches of property and don't have to move the dock. AP needs to be exclusive. So if you didn't have a fence keeping the neighbor off the dock, then what you'd get is a prescriptive eas
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by bdowling 5y ago
A later date on a subsequent publication including revisions doesn't extend the copyright term of the original material.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Where things work as intended on stackoverflow, you are required to provide attribution. Most(*) small snippets of code (e.g., 1-10 lines) on Stack Overflow are probably not copyrightable, at least not under U.S. law. You don't ne
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by bdowling 5y ago
You're right. I am a lawyer, so you'd think I'd be more careful. I should have written "lawyers' answers are usually 'it depends'". You know, because it depends.
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by bdowling 5y ago
A copyright notice is relevant to willful infringement, which may result in higher damages. Willful infringement requires that the infringer actually knew or should have known (or deliberately avoided finding out) that the copied material w
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by bdowling 5y ago
Sometimes parties pay what seems like a lot of money to settle dubious claims because it's cheaper and less time-consuming than fighting them. That can be completely rational. But paying £100,000 for infringing one minute of silence
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by bdowling 5y ago
> you're not supposed to append copyright years to a notice It shouldn't matter because the date of actual first publication would control, not what is on one particular notice.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Adding copyright notices to every source code file is reasonable because it costs next to nothing. Figuring out what is copyrightable, on the other hand, is expensive, because it requires lawyers, and a waste of time because lawyers' a
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by bdowling 5y ago
There's a lot more. https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html Edit: I don't understand her endgame. She's not going back to work at Apple after the negative publicity she's been generating. S
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by bdowling 5y ago
> ... more like they were subpoenaed or otherwise compelled to hand over communications. Exactly. OP wrote it was a "discovery thing". Discovery is a legal process for gathering evidence in a lawsuit. All relevant business reco

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