kanetrain

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by kanetrain 14y ago
We were targeted by Kelora and threatened by them multiple times. Glad to see this ruling come down and to see common sense prevail. This is a great day for internet retailers and the internet at large. Last line of summary from judge state
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by kanetrain 14y ago
This was an amazing letter. Great lesson for me on so many levels.
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by kanetrain 15y ago
This is a great responsive design. This works, in part, because it is a news site with predictable image sizes, headline sizes, and very limited GUI. If you want to build something that is more graphically intensive, with more focus on visu
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by kanetrain 15y ago
Well, this was timely. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2808110
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by kanetrain 15y ago
you make a good point. if you are paying $150,000, you should at least talk to a laywer to make sure you are getting the "license" they claim to be offering. You really have 1 viable option at this point - talk to a very good patent attorn
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by kanetrain 15y ago
You can read the Microsoft counter-suit and get a complete factual history of this case. You can read about how Kelora systems was just created a few months ago and was just assigned the patent (presumably so they could appeal the case unde
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by kanetrain 15y ago
They can't be serious with that rebuttal. Intellectual Ventures is a parasite who's allowed to thrive on the innovation and hard-work of others simply because they have identified a loop-hole in an archaic system that was never built for or
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by kanetrain 15y ago
I personally believe that (unless something is done to change the system), generic software patents will ensure the slow grinding halt of entrepreneurial innovation in the U.S. Intellectual Ventures is the worst thing to happen to small we
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by kanetrain 15y ago
There are lot of additional problems though... the way the Patent Office washes their hands and leaves it up to the courts to sort things out etc. I personally think ALL software patents should be abolished completely. In absence of that,
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by kanetrain 15y ago
THIS. the patent office has turned in to a bit of a joke. Well, software patents in general have turned into a joke.
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by kanetrain 15y ago
We got the same letter from Kelora. It's more than just you and me too. I just sent you an email to the contact info in your bio. Give me a call.
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by kanetrain 15y ago
I was not even aware this was an ongoing battle in Europe. Going to have to go do some reading. It's a real problem here in the US. As I understand, patents are supposed to encourage innovation... but software patents in the US have gotten
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by kanetrain 15y ago
I agree with Andrew on this.
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by kanetrain 15y ago
Matt - If the search team or gmail team are using email engagement as an indicator of a site's reputation or usefulness... or even to grade the quality of email from a site, it's really problematic. This can so easily be exploited to hurt
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by kanetrain 15y ago
I know for a fact that Gmail has implemented some (overly aggressive, and really far-reaching) "spam" triggers over the last few months. Many of them have been scaled way back over the past few weeks but the crux of the new Gmail "spam" fil