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by grellas 13y ago
This is a nice piece and I would certainly commend it to founders for its insights. Of course, much of Silicon Valley is a living testament to the fact that options can have incredible value for the right cases. Every startup has a rhythm t
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The burden of software patents - how many must be read to clear rights?(groklaw.net)
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Law Firm Slowdown Fuels Cuts at Weil Gotshal(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
Like Bilski , this represents a short-term victory for those favoring patent protection but also shows that the Supreme Court is at least trying to impose limits on the Federal Circuit's idea that basically everything under the sun
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A New Industrial Revolution in the Making(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
The question is not so much whether you vote (most people will) but what you vote for. The U.S. system of government is deeply rooted in an English common law and constitutional framework. In its U.S. variant, it became a constitutional rep
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by grellas 13y ago
Very simple. Very clean. Kudos for having the right spirit of honesty and transparency. VCs have lately taken to bearing their own attorneys' fees on occasion but I have rarely seen a significant VC deal in which the option pool is not brou
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39 IP law professors support Google on uncopyrightability of APIs(groklaw.net)
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by grellas 13y ago
When preferred stock investors calculate the value of a company, they do so with reference to a cap table showing the fully diluted capitalization of the company (that is, all classes of stock plus options) assuming that all stock is conver
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Google files appeal brief in Oracle v. Googls(groklaw.net)
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Vermont Enacts the Nation's First Anti-Patent Trolling Law(forbes.com)
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Google has won the trademark battles over AdWords(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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Groklaw celebrates its 10th anniversary(groklaw.net)
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by grellas 13y ago
A few thoughts on this case: The farmer here knew of Monsanto's license by which you could buy their genetically-altered (patented) seeds for the purpose of planting one crop only and selling that crop, with the need each year to buy more o
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by grellas 13y ago
As noted in my analysis below (posted when the Federal Court agreed to hear this case en banc , a term explained below), this case is not about killing off software patents or other forms of business methods. That said, it is very sign
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by grellas 13y ago
The key to understanding this lawsuit lies in a technical point having nothing to do with the merits of the claims and which appears at pages 35 through 37 of the complaint. In that section, the plaintiff, Think Computer Corporation, "respe
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by grellas 13y ago
Judge Wright took tremendous offense to the idea of lawyer-sharpie types trying to use his court (among others) as home base for a naked scheme of extortion. Think about how he characterizes the lawyers and their conduct: (1) they were lawy
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by grellas 13y ago
Thanks, Ilya - amazing outcome and richly deserved. A wonderful group of founders and a supportive and first-class group of investors.
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Red Hat Comments to USPTO on how to improve patent applications(groklaw.net)
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Viacom Loses Again - Viacom v. YouTube(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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Apple's Game Revealed in Apple v. Samsung Post-Trial Skirmishes(groklaw.net)
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Today Is Human Genome Day at the US Supreme Court(groklaw.net)
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Silicon Valley's Mouthwatering Tax Break(online.wsj.com)
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Uniloc v. Rackspace: court bounces patent on method for rounding numbers(groklaw.net)
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Trademark: NY Yankees officially proclaimed the "evil empire" of baseball(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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by grellas 14y ago
YC has helped shape many ways in which modern startups do business and I could see this protocol adding to this by setting minimum expectations for defining who is truly "in" on a funding round before the binding documentation is done. I se
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by grellas 14y ago
The Clerky founders have done what founders at their best will do when launching a venture: they have toiled at length in their field, identified key pain points bedeviling the user, and developed a service that deals with them not only eff
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More Proof That Hiring and Dating Aren't So Different(blogs.wsj.com)
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Oracle Files Appeal Brief in Oracle v. Google(groklaw.net)
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by grellas 14y ago
Now corrected. Thank you both for pointing this out. Just asleep at the switch, since I hope I know at least that much after years of studying this stuff.

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