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by bdowling 7y ago
Indeed, the ability to "invent around" a patent is essential because it means that patent-holders can't completely monopolize an idea. Instead, they only get to monopolize their specific inventions disclosed in their patent,
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by bdowling 7y ago
A patent does not need to teach you or any other actual person how to make and practice the invention. It only needs to teach the hypothetical "person having ordinary skill in the art" how to make or practice the invention. See, e
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by bdowling 7y ago
> tricks with patent priority. It's not a trick because in order to assert priority based on a prior application, the invention claimed needs to be completely supported by the prior disclosure. In fact, an applicant will often claim
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by bdowling 7y ago
> they are in the eyes of the law nothing but a patent troll. Patent troll is merely a term used by critics of the patent system for inventors or patent owners whose actions they disagree with. It is not term that is used anywhere in the
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by bdowling 7y ago
If you're criticizing the title of the patent or the general field of the invention, then you're missing the point. The scope of the patent is determined by the claims at the end. Those claims are drafted narrowly and only claim w
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by bdowling 7y ago
Patents are only granted to inventors of new and non-obvious, eligible inventions. Those inventions are always some sort of technology.
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by bdowling 7y ago
Even better, have someone else tell you your weaknesses because you probably don’t notice them the way that others do.
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by bdowling 7y ago
> that 10-20% extra We’re talking about the difference between an engineer approaching forty at an ordinary company earning a little over $100k versus someone ten years younger at a FAANGMI earning $250k+. There are a lot of people in th
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by bdowling 7y ago
> prison tattoos Pretty much. They reveal what tribes you’re a part of and your history, allowing others to identify and categorize you. And they’re inappropriate in a traditional professional setting, requiring sleeves to cover them up.
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by bdowling 7y ago
It's all about risk versus reward. Making an indie game for the saturated indie market is a risky endeavor. The potential for high reward has to be there for developers to spend the time and money to make a game with a low probability
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by bdowling 7y ago
According to the link, one of your options is to “Mail in your device to the Apple Repair Center.”
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by bdowling 7y ago
I don’t understand the comparison because non-compete agreements are unenforceable by law in California, which would explain an HR drone telling you so. As far as I know, there’s no law preventing the Public Interest Registry from raising p
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by bdowling 7y ago
A fair point. It’s not a hereditary title, so it’s not the same thing. And yes, the U.S. gives out medals as well, but we don’t call the recipients knights or give them special appellations.
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by bdowling 7y ago
UK TV and movies use "sir" and "ma'am" (or "marm") pretty frequently. In the U.S., they're not so commonly used outside of very formal service situations (e.g., military, customer service). Friends do
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by bdowling 7y ago
The Apple press release also styled his name Sir Jony Ive. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-inde... I would go one step further and say that aristocracy is fundamentally un-American.
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by bdowling 7y ago
As far as I know, litigation finance is just a high-interest, non-recourse loan secured solely by a future recovery from a lawsuit. It is used by plaintiffs to pay for personal expenses during a lawsuit. Plaintiffs just promise to repay the
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by bdowling 7y ago
All federal government agencies are exempt from state and local taxes, there's nothing particularly special about the USPS in that regard. In fact, state laws don't really apply to them (e.g., postal vehicles don't have state
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by bdowling 7y ago
Yes, lawyers pay non-lawyers for services all time. I’m thinking of profit-sharing. We don’t know how close to profit-sharing their arrangement is, because we don’t know the details of the contract between them. I’m sure their lawyers have
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by bdowling 7y ago
Atrium presents itself as a law firm, even though it is two different entities. One of the entities is a law firm, the other is a tech startup. From their web site, in light gray on white background: > "Atrium LLP is a registered li
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by bdowling 7y ago
If his resume didn’t say anything about MS Office, then he’d be screened out by HR and the managers would never get to consider him. So, that conversation would never happen.
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by bdowling 7y ago
You picked the wrong time to use that example, considering that Nintendo will soon release Super Mario Maker 2, a new game which includes a mode with virtually unchanged mechanics from Super Mario Bros 3. https://www.nintendo.com
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by bdowling 7y ago
Excerpt: > From the earliest age the new child of America will probably be counseled to: "This above all--play it cool; keep your nose clean; don't take chances; do what you're told; don't argue with authority. And re
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by bdowling 7y ago
It's still an honor system. There's a way to generate code that will call the "private" or "protected" data/function even if it violates what's specified in the headers.
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by bdowling 7y ago
The C++ access restrictions exist solely to teach and enforce proper API usage by other developers. They're supposed to trigger a reconsideration of the API when a new developer runs into a restriction, but more often in my experience
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by bdowling 7y ago
> Today, he's working on formal reasoning and dreams of creating an automated software engineer . How does that work and should we be worried? The article doesn’t touch on this topic beyond the introduction. (Note: I am aware of us
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by bdowling 7y ago
The point is that where the antecedents differ in number, the semantic number of the pronoun may resolve an ambiguity. If "they" can mean either singular or plural, then it doesn't help to resolve the ambiguity at all.
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by bdowling 7y ago
Sun's mid-1990's SPARCstation models used a SPARC CPU (hence the name). The single-core workstations were a bit faster than the top of the line 386 or 486 available at the time. As I understand it, the draw was the CPU and OS comp
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by bdowling 7y ago
“Home of the brave” comes from a line in the American national anthem [0]. You will find similar patriotic statements in all countries’ national anthems. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
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by bdowling 7y ago
Have you considered that you might have ADHD or some other cause for your writing difficulties besides just anxiety? If so, it may help to work with an occupational therapist to come up with specific strategies to work better (e.g., setting
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by bdowling 7y ago
It's a matter of perspective. A patent troll is just a big corporation's term for an inventor who seeks to make money by licensing his patented invention to others. The big corporation doesn't see any value in paying license

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