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by teachingaway 12y ago
>> There are so many worthier avenues for pro-bono legal work than helping out for-profit companies. I have a handful of students who want to be patent lawyers. Should I make them work on death penalty or civil rights cases?
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by teachingaway 12y ago
>> I'm surprised there isn't an EFF-like non-profit that provides pro-bono patent defense to start-ups, against patent trolls. Part of the problem is making it scale. It takes a lot of man-hours to defend a patent litigation
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by teachingaway 12y ago
In most cases, if a plaintiff withdraws, it needs to be with prejudice. Thats the default rule. In this particular instance, there was a procedural twist that make it a somewhat close call.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Maybe its a close question for the first 2 or 3 patent lawsuits. But when someone's filing 10+ patent lawsuits at a clip, its difficult to imagine a legitimate scenario.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
True. This doesn't solve the patent troll problem. We could replicate the clinic at a few different schools, and maybe win 5 or 10 cases per year out of the hundreds that get filed. Not a solution, but maybe better than nothing? Unpaid
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Honestly, 911 Notify is far from the worst troll. Most of their targets are deep-pocket public companies that have plenty of cash to hire big brand law firms. I think it would be a great use of student time to identify the most egregious pa
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by teachingaway 12y ago
pretty much true. Its not a grand slam win, and the case could come back (but not in Delaware). I still think its a win.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
We definitely want to put together some guidelines for other schools to run similar projects. In fact, @jorgemtorres wrote an entire Kauffman Fellows thesis on this topic.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
>> Does the decision encouraging "fee shifting" require that the case go to trial? Nope. It only requires that the case is "exceptional" -- in the sense that the plaintiff filed an exceptionally crappy lawsuit. &gt
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Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll(medium.com)
385 points by teachingaway 12y ago|81 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
I think that's correct, but calling them a "front" makes it sound a little sinister. I'd say "Polaroid" is mainly just a trademark licensed out by a shell company for random products because its still widely re
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by teachingaway 12y ago
"... an examiner missed 304 hours of work in a year but was paid for the time. Despite warnings, this examiner kept cheating and was caught twice but not fired."
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Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll(medium.com)
2 points by teachingaway 12y ago|0 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
>> By the way, there's no such thing as a "provisional patent" Right. But its just shorthand for "provisional patent application". Maybe its sloppy, but I don't think its a big deal.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
just tried HN Special... much better than the default styles. Thanks!
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by teachingaway 12y ago
looks like a solid patent: 1. A method of monosyllabic communication over a communications network, comprising: - a bespoke user interface selected from a colorway including purple, violet, orchid and lavender, - sending at least one monosy
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Patent Troll Comeuppance: 4 Recent Cases Slap Trolls with Penalties(medium.com)
2 points by teachingaway 12y ago|0 comments
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Good News in the Fight Against Patent Trolls(medium.com)
1 points by teachingaway 12y ago|0 comments
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Summer Patent Troll Recap: Good, Bad, and Ugly(adlervermillion.com)
3 points by teachingaway 12y ago|0 comments
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Really sounds out of place. I always cringe when I write it. Sometimes I'll change it to "Request for Relief", and I've never had a judge comment on the change.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
"Real Lawyer"... technically true... But the lawyer doesn't appear to know much about the relevant law or technology. He does have a pic of himself photoshopped into a courthouse. Weirdly floating at the bottom of this page:
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by teachingaway 12y ago
I think a lot of these "not legal advice" disclaimers are overkill. You can't get proper "legal advice" from a blog. You get legal advice when you hire a lawyer. A blog might be full of accurate and useful legal in
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Follow-up article: "When is it Legal to Just Google Around a Paywall?"
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by teachingaway 13y ago
Its not incorporation itself that attracts patent trolls. They go after the scent of money. Like, after you announce a round of funding, a troll will suddenly realize you are 'infringing' on their patents.
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by teachingaway 13y ago
You're totally right (I edited original comment to reflect that those are US cases). I'm not sure what the equivalent UK law would be.
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by teachingaway 13y ago
In the U.S., visual aspects of software are generally copyrightable. Check out the Pac-Man v. KC Munkin case from 1982. There are several others. www.copyrightcodex.com/infringement/16-infringement-substantial-similarity/soft