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by bdowling 3y ago
Someone who has no basis to bring a patent infringement claim selling a settlement of such a claim to an alleged infringer is clearly fraud. It’s like someone selling a deed to land they don’t own, or leasing a property they don’t own to a
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by bdowling 3y ago
At least in the U.S., anyone can look up all the patents a person/entity owns. So, your fraud wouldn’t get very far. https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/searc...
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by bdowling 3y ago
Cincinnati, Ohio is also named after George Washington, albeit indirectly. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/09/06/who-was-cin...
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by bdowling 3y ago
Bridgestone, the Japanese tire manufacturer, is named after its founder, Shojiro Ishibashi. His surname means “stone bridge”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgestone
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by bdowling 3y ago
You don’t need textbooks. Most textbooks are garbage.
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by bdowling 3y ago
This announcement was prompted in part by an AI activist named Stephen Thaler (referenced in the article), who sued for AIs to be recognized as inventors and authors. His goal was to give certain moral rights to AIs. At the time, that seeme
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by bdowling 3y ago
Try “Moshi-moshi?” for a Japanese flavor.
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by bdowling 3y ago
That is basically what governments are for, collective actions that make land more valuable: roads, schools, police, fire departments, and civil engineering projects.
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by bdowling 3y ago
The problem is that the city relies on property tax revenues to function.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> the next person who buys it If they can’t build on it, who would buy it? Urban farmers? In any case, your plan would destroy the land value, and the corresponding property tax revenue.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> No, wtfh1971 isn’t arguing that divorce has to do with wage changes, because he’s too stupid to get that relation. This is the exact point where the mean-spiritedness of the article surpassed my interest in continuing to read it.
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by bdowling 3y ago
You could try going on an adventure, ideally a real one that is a little bit dangerous.
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by bdowling 3y ago
For every well-engineered application used by millions of users, you've got thousands of poorly-engineered, bespoke applications in use by one or two users (often internal corporate tools or expensive middleware with minimal customizat
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by bdowling 3y ago
"Pokemon-style game made with JavaScript and p5.js" would probably do just as well.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> "… do not put my name on it or associate it with me in any way." If you invented it, then they have to put your name on the application as the inventor. There’s also a declaration that the inventor is supposed to sign as part
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by bdowling 3y ago
This is great info. As a follow-up, it looks like Masimo is trying to make a consumer watch-like device (or possibly just pretending to so they look like a competitor to Apple). https://www.masimopersonalhealth.com/
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by bdowling 3y ago
For the record, my guess is that there is no copyright in a scan of a copyright-ineligible work, because a scan is not a work of “authorship”. Unlike a photograph, which requires various authorial choices that reflect the photographer’s exp
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by bdowling 3y ago
I think the author missed the point of CGI. The point being that the web server doesn’t parse anything, it just passes the request to the CGI program via environment variables and standard input/output.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Whether you have a copyright to a scan of a copyright-ineligible work isn’t a question that has been tested in court, as far as I know. A copyright-ineligible work, however, can sometimes be protected by contract. Here, the restriction on t
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by bdowling 3y ago
That would be the obvious solution, but it’s not surprising they couldn’t agree on a price when they operate in very different industries. Masimo makes medical devices, ones whose prices are probably both high and skewed by insurance. Apple
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by bdowling 3y ago
If you are actually sued for patent infringement, then it means you've got deep pockets to pay a judgment or settlement. In other words, you're probably making a ton of money. It's a good position to be in.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Yes. In a well-written claim, then each limitation is only there because it was necessary to get the examiner to allow the patent (i.e., to be valid in light of the known prior art).
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by bdowling 3y ago
> some parts of them seem to definitely be a prior art The standard is to consider ALL of the elements together in the specific configuration. If this were not the case, then any invention that incorporated any conventional element (e.g
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by bdowling 3y ago
As I understand it, CAFE standards require small footprint trucks to meet an unreasonably high MPG rating or else pay taxes/fines. Large footprint trucks have a more realistic MPG requirement. Therefore all trucks are large trucks. Her
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by bdowling 3y ago
Historically, here’s how it works: Suppose the police come to your door and say, “Hi, we’re investigating your neighbor for a crime and we would like to see the footage from your security camera for the last few days.” At that point, you c
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by bdowling 3y ago
The image of Muhammad Ali taunting Sonny Liston to get back up is one of the most famous images in sports. I can’t imagine how much it cost to license.
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by bdowling 3y ago
I don't have any insider knowledge that the linked post is true, but it seems plausible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38349969 Even if there isn't anything explicit, there may be an implicit promise that a
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by bdowling 3y ago
> the other 20% would represent a pivot to an "open source" model like the name once implied Or they would be triggering a billion-dollar lawsuit that would surely bankrupt the company.
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Which they still do in many, many cases.
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by bdowling 3y ago
If judges start to throw out non-compete agreements that don’t have separate compensation (apart from usually salary/experience), then you will just see companies explicitly write their contracts such that that X dollars are explicitly

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