kljensen

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by kljensen 16y ago
Sure, my email is in my profile. The lack of sysadmin is key for me. I focus on the app with gae, not updating BLANK.
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by kljensen 16y ago
I run two profitable businesses on app engine. The occasional downtime is a tolerable exchange for the numerous benefits. (I also use ec2 for computationally expensive jobs. The ec2 instances are started and stopped by gae.) Bottom line
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by kljensen 16y ago
George is spot on. Also, in my experience, it's surprisingly easy to get a law firm to do this gratis depending on your network and prospects. It's cookie cutter for them. (I've done the diy and professional routes both without problems.
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by kljensen 16y ago
I believe this is not the case. (Based on my somewhat sizeable experience in this area. See my other comment on this post.)
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by kljensen 16y ago
First, if the student is an undergraduate, it's unlikely they have "assigned" their IP to the university. The university does not own the fruits of the student's mind. (If you are a graduate student or employee, you probably did assignee
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by kljensen 16y ago
If the author worked in a start up, he'd have written a more succinct article.
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by kljensen 16y ago
Here's a related graphic from the NYT that shows the history of investor-backed lawsuits: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/business/20101...
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Betting on Justice: Borrowing to Sue(publicintegrity.org)
1 points by kljensen 16y ago|1 comments
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by kljensen 16y ago
Sure, "priorsmart litigation alerts". Here is a review/description: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/08/patent-litigation-al...
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by kljensen 16y ago
This is destined to result in poor deliverability for them in perpetuity due to a step change in volume combined with spam complaints. I would not do this. (I run a profitable ad-suppoted daily email list.)
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by kljensen 16y ago
Purely financial -- how would two guys from Texas hire an attorney in California (where facebook would file) to represent them day after day without going broke? Now facebook has to send their guys to Texas...the cost which will add up qui
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by kljensen 16y ago
There aren't many documented cases like you describe.
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by kljensen 16y ago
The claims are not just on the sequences, but can be on uses of the sequences, combinations, whatever. This is why genes are be patented in some cases up to 25+ times. Each patent owner claimed something unique that passed the USPTO's tes
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by kljensen 16y ago
Yes. That is basically the case.
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by kljensen 16y ago
In the eyes of the (US) law, independent invention is no excuse for infringement. The patent holder has an absolute right to exclude others from practicing the invention. In other words, in the race to invent and patent, first place gets a
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by kljensen 16y ago
It is applied, and it should also be in the CS space. But, as always, there are bad patents issued because they are examined by busy humans. In these cases, opponents of the patent have a number of options, most notably asking for a reexa
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by kljensen 16y ago
Gene patents have not been a "problem" in the same way as software patents. And, unlike software patents, they are more likely to represent a significant R&D investment by the applicant. (I am the author of the paper that showed how mu
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by kljensen 16y ago
I see this a ton. (I work for an entrepreneurship and ip related non-profit and have done a few start ups.) Usually a tech start-up thinks it can get Gates money by applying their shizzle to global poverty or a non-profit decides it wants t
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by kljensen 16y ago
Pipes is one of the best kept secrets on the web. It's great at quickly mashing up a few data sources and exposing it as a web service, with optional json/xml/kml/xxx output out of the box. Also it's totally cached so even expensive pipes
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by kljensen 16y ago
I am 110% locked into GAE with a start up in the legal services space. And I couldn't be happier. For needs that cannot be satisfied by GAE, our app spins EC2 instances up and down as required (from GAE). For me, the numerous benefits of
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Groupon sued over patent: “Method of community purchasing through the internet” (news.priorsmart.com)
2 points by kljensen 16y ago|0 comments
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by kljensen 16y ago
How do you get on their schedule?
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by kljensen 16y ago
The tl;dr might be: sound like a human not a total douche. I don't feel the credential based pitch can be replaced wholesale. Credentials matter and are effective because they communicate a great deal of information (often by assumption) i
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by kljensen 16y ago
I enjoyed scrolling to the bottom to listen to the different sounds the device can produce. The disclosed age/frequency pairs seem remarkably accurate and, of course, the sound is quite annoying.
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Device for high-frequency sounds to prevent loitering by teenagers(movingsoundtech.com)
2 points by kljensen 16y ago|3 comments
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by kljensen 16y ago
Not that I've seen, but haven't done much research.
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by kljensen 16y ago
About 1,000 per week miss their fees. (In contrast 2k+ are granted each week.)
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by kljensen 16y ago
Are convertible notes new? Seemed common 10 years ago even.
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by kljensen 16y ago
The [guaranteed] stress and [potential] rewards are directly proportional to how much risk you're taking. The best time to join depends on your personal appetite and financial/family situation.
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by kljensen 16y ago
Really? I started using it almost on day one and feel like I had an unqualified positive experience. In particular, this was the first platform I used that freed me from the burdens is sys admin. (Obviously that is not unique to gae. Als

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