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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Not very conversant with the theory behind design patents, but seems to me they are used more for protecting distinctive UIs and associations with brands than for protecting the investment in actually designing them. Here's the closest
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
While cases like the scan-to-email trolls make the news, it's precisely because they are relatively rare. Tech media likes to hype these up and make it seem like there's a rash of these cases, studies by the GAO and a couple of sc
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
> On the contrary, the presence of patents tend to slow down innovation. I believe we may have had this exchange before, but they is no empirical evidence of that. At most there have been apocryphal examples that have mostly been debun
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
> ... examiners are rewarded only for issuing patents... This is incorrect. They are "rewarded" for any kind of action on a pending patent, whether it's an allowance or a rejection. Last I checked, a majority of them ge
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Maybe in the US, where there is a duopoly for the last-mile access for a large number of markets. Highly doubt it will happen in India because of the very rich, competitive Internet access market, as TFA points out.
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Demonstrably? Curious, has this ever happened in a relatively free market without a full-access competitor showing up?
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
1) This was in response to firasd's alarmist argument about ISPs charging differently based on what sites you access, not the Internet.org thing. 2) There are free VPNs out there. I am not sure how trustworthy they are, but people I kn
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
And my point is, people who are here, posting against FB's initiative, obviously have Internet , which the poor don't even have, let alone Internet freedom. So what they're basically saying is, the poor should not have the s
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
What if I claim you are rich enough to donate to charities of not only your choice, but my choice as well. Will you donate to arbitrary charities that arbitrary people ask you to? Just because you have money does not mean we get to tell y
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
As with Bittorrent, the solution may simply be VPNs.
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Right, because the wrong kind of Internet access could kill people.
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
> What if you could make calls on Reliance to only Reliance folks? Or what if Airtel charged you Rs. 20/min for calls to Docomo, but Rs 1/min to calls on Airtel? What if Facebook gave everybody in India free phones and free c
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Not a specific list of papers, but I find Sigcomm to generally have very good papers in the field of networking and communications. Here's the link for this year's conference: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Do you read the claims and the arguments made to differentiate over any prior art the examiner finds? Trying to guess at the "implications" of the language is a futile endeavor unless you have a ton of context, because a ton of th
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
The "tech industry" is incredibly diverse to make such a broad generalization. I know for a fact that many players in, say, the telecommunications, chip design and semiconductor industries regularly read their competitors' pa
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Yes, it is for one specific handshake, similar to many others. At a quick glance, the claims don't seem to cover any earthshaking innovation, but the introduction claims this makes it resistant to weaknesses in the underlying crypto al
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Yes, which is why Apple has such a market share lead over Android. Being the "first mover" is more often than not a disadvantage, and being one entails taking huge risks. ("Copycats" by Oded Shenkar is supposed to be a g
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Most people would agree that profiting off somebody else's labor without their permission and without remuneration is wrong, and hence it is correct that it is unlawful. I see no incoherence in this particular case. Unfortunately, to m
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Kim Dotcom was running a bunch of servers in the US, which means he was running his business at least partially in the US. Secondly, arguably the majority of the infringing content was produced in the US. The US undeniably has significant i
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Sure, the US Justice Dept lacked the balls to go after Wall Street. Prosecute the 0.1% wealthiest and most powerful people in the country who own more than the rest of the country put together! What do you think this is, a world where all p
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
If New Zealand is kowtowing to the US, ask yourself why. In politics generally people don't do favors for others for free. Here's another possible angle: Hollywood might actually be contributing favorably to New Zealand's eco
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
So your argument is, a bunch of guys got away because of a shortcomings in the law, so we should let this guy get away too?
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't that what the Apple App Store has been doing since it was introduced? As I recall, Xcode used GCC back then, so how is Clang relevant?
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
And GP's point is that a) statistically speaking, pretty much all of the users of software today are non-developers, and b) these users don't care about the freedoms that the GPL seeks to protect. Even in the small subset of users
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
The patent itself is not about facial recognition. It's actually broader than that.
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
Ugh, swype fail: I meant to say: 2: There's probably not much overlap in Google's patents and Oracle's technology.
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
As with my reply to monochromatic, I guess the issue here is the definition of the term "patent troll". People often use the term anytime a patent they don't like is asserted. However, studies suggest that patent trolls don&#
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
I have seen the term "patent troll" being applied to law firms who take patent cases on contingency. I guess the issue here is the definition of the term "patent troll". People tend to twist it freely to mean "someb
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
1. Google likely had a much weaker portfolio when Oracle sued. It is much, much stronger now. 2. There's probably both much overlap in Google's patents and Oracle's technology. 3. The Oracle v. Google case is now primarily ab
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by throwawaykf05 11y ago
> But in practice the "little guy" would need millions of dollars just to create the case and go after the "big guy". This is the exact problem that many patent trolls solve. If your patent is strong enough, they wi

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