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by fncypants 6y ago
Chick-Fil-A’s app is extremely well done. Just this morning I ordered breakfast from a store, but drove to the wrong one and parked. The app noticed this automatically, asked if I wanted to move my pending order to this store, and after pre
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by fncypants 7y ago
Its not that the companies should have kept the cash, though. Buybacks are not inherently bad. But the US, many buybacks were a direct result of the reduction in corporate tax rate in 2017. Instead of using their greater cash flow to reinve
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by fncypants 7y ago
It seems that only once you have kids you realize how much of society that doesn't make sense to you is the way it is in order to accommodate the logistics of children and schooling.
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by fncypants 7y ago
Open does not mean patent-free.
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by fncypants 7y ago
Curious about the age of your kid. Mine is 3-4 yrs old, the only one. My life has changed, a lot, over those years. What you describe was the first 18 months for me. The next year was hell with zero productivity. Then 5-day a week pre-K cha
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by fncypants 7y ago
A good motto with kids is, if you can afford it outsource it. Part of what the US does not do well is provide a basic level of outsourcing (day care) to those who cannot afford to.
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by fncypants 7y ago
Consider that perhaps what they found is actually greater happiness. Not saying it’s true or that everyone should follow the kid path, but I’m experiencing what you describe and can confirm that the hobbies/interests were and still are
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by fncypants 7y ago
I’m curious as to why you think the patent is unenforceable?
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by fncypants 7y ago
The article links to an original NYT publication from the 1890s. What struck me first about it was that it was a reckless police shooting of an unarmed man. And the policeman was arrested and charged and people were upset about it. History
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by fncypants 7y ago
Being a patent lawyer, I had to dig a little deeper because there is a record behind every patent. As you some of you already know, the patent office does not freely give patents for impossible devices. No perpetual motion machines, no magi
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by fncypants 8y ago
Clearly. Not only bad at statistics, and creating a straw man argument from an off handed comment from Musk, but motivated to trash Tesla. The short TLSA disclaimer should be at the top, or better yet in the headline: “Guy that profits from
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by fncypants 8y ago
Adobe Acrobat has a redaction tool that will add the black box AND remove the underlying text from the document. It is not mere black highlighting.
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USPTO, MIT, and Cisco Launch Prior Art Archive Database(priorartarchive.org)
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by fncypants 8y ago
Assuming you mean filing a lawsuit for infringement of a US patent, a foreign company can be sued in any federal district court in the US. It is a special case.
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by fncypants 8y ago
It depends. I have obtained three orders to pay my client’s fees and all were paid in full. There is precedent (from an EDTX judge, no less) finding the plaintiff’s lawyer and the individual behind the troll liable when they were ordered to
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by fncypants 8y ago
The patent laws contemplate indirect or joint infringement, that could hold multiple entities liable if there is sufficient coordination. What you propose is an interesting investigation, but would quickly run into these issues of multi-par
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by fncypants 8y ago
Some states have enacted bad faith litigation statutes. If the patent owner is not careful in avoiding the appearance of extortion, they can be liable for the defendant’s fees and other damages.
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by fncypants 8y ago
Yes, just like any company with a virtual office. But the Supreme Court in TC Heartland last year limited where patent suits can be filed. Now, a _defendant_ needs a physical presence in east Texas to be sued there. Only big box retailers w
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by fncypants 8y ago
In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled in Alice v CLS that computer inventions that claim “abstract ideas” are invalid. What happened in the years following is that the lower courts took this as an opportunity to weed out the crappy patents that w
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by fncypants 8y ago
I am a patent lawyer, and the sentiment from the article is on point. Recent case decisions have flipped the script for small companies targeted by patent trolls. The term “Troll” captures many different kinds of patent lawsuits, but most o
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by fncypants 8y ago
I've noticed that Monsanto appears to be on an astroturfing campaign. Half of the ads appearing in my Reddit front page are promoted posts that are pro-glyphosate. They point to legitimate news articles, for example, that report on a s
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by fncypants 9y ago
No for-profit news organizations? That don't take money in exchange for delivering consumers eyeballs to advertisers I presume? I hope then that you subscribe to your public broadcasting stations (read: fund PBS and NPR news reporting-
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by fncypants 9y ago
This message was tailored to push the "fake news" narrative of the current administration under the guise of journalistic integrity. It is designed to engender absolute distrust in non-Sinclair media, which given Sinclair's e
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by fncypants 9y ago
Copyright laws typically prohibit both identical copies, which appear to be done here by users during image processing / OCR even if only transitory, as well as derivatives of the copy. So the question then becomes, is this "fai
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by fncypants 9y ago
Very true. There is a fundamental role that lawyers play that is an intangible: to pursue justice for the client. Much of why law is expensive and has been slow to automate is because of intentional and unintentional barriers. Unintentional
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by fncypants 9y ago
Using an existing program called Active Citizen, the city of Moscow has been allowing residents to cast votes for measures ranging from the name of their new metro train to the color of the seats in a new sports arena. Why is this even on
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by fncypants 9y ago
This "documentary" is a defamatory hit job by someone who (rightfully or wrongfully) was on the receiving end of a patent infringement suit. It needs to go away. There is much more serious discussions that need be had about the pa
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by fncypants 9y ago
Oh, ok. But pardon the ignorance, but how do the investors make a return on their investment, freemium language and premium tools?
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by fncypants 10y ago
While much legal jargon can be dispensed with because the intent is clear from simpler language, this one actually has some purpose. "Arising from/out of X" implies that the claim was caused by X (here, the from/out of i
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by fncypants 10y ago
Any public disclosure of your product (which could be as simple as a demo to potential investors not under NDA or a YouTube video), "publications" including web pages, and "offers to sell" which may include advertising.

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