lostinpoetics

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by lostinpoetics 10y ago
not to be a buzzkill, but it'd be beneficial to reduce the data set examiners (and defendants) have to sift through to find relevant prior art. speaking as an ex-examiner, that's the biggest problem, separating the signal from n
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by lostinpoetics 10y ago
a couple of nits on twistedmack's generally good response: * a prior art search is not required (that's the PTO's job) but i usually recommend it since it'll save money in the end if there's dead on prior art. it&#x
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by lostinpoetics 11y ago
a silly patent (even by design patent stds), but the complaint illustrates that this patent is a pretty small part of a [smallish] thicket of patents on the ribbon concept, as well corel pretty brazenly trying to capitalize on the Office UI
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by lostinpoetics 11y ago
if you're looking for public transportation options, this is probably the best bet. getting from NYC airports to penn station (where the Vermonter leaves from) depends on whether you fly into JFK/LGA or EWR (Newark, NJ). for JFK&#
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by lostinpoetics 11y ago
FWIW, i used a mid-2011 2.3Ghz i5 with 8 GB of RAM for about 4 years as a lightly used dev machine (read: basically ruby/rails, pg, and sublime text with some crud stripped out and running on OS X [not server]) that also hosted about 2
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by lostinpoetics 11y ago
congrats on the launch, linking figure/element numbers to is a feature i've had on my list of features of things i'll never build for awhile. also, have recently added thumbnail search results (think google patents had this a
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by lostinpoetics 11y ago
Almost certainly invalid today (as to all claims). Even before recent decisions, the method claims in particular were pretty much rejected as a matter of course (see e.g., https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1433110
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by lostinpoetics 11y ago
The main reason is to fund the office as it's one of the few agencies that is 100% funded by fees (versus appropriations). So much so that Congress often skims money from the fees they collect. The fact that the office is sort of set u
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by lostinpoetics 11y ago
Cost. Cost is the biggest issue with post-grant proceedings. I don't know how many times I've seen people that have air-tight cases but they, understandably, won't, or can't, pay hundreds of thousands of dollars (filing
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
An interesting question, I would assume this would be governed by the sites TOS which usually prevents "unauthorized" use which implicates trademark issues, which in turn gives TM holders footing to petition the site to remove &qu
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
Agreed. I think a lot of that is based on Meteor (understandably) pushing their entire stack. I've always been intrigued by their docs which state: By default all apps include the meteor-platform package. This automatically pu
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
can't speak to django, but i've worked with rails, node, and meteor (caveat: not "professionally," only on some personal (failed) startups) rails: always have had pains with maintaining apps, but will always love ruby. v
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Alan Bean Plus Four(newyorker.com)
1 points by lostinpoetics 12y ago|0 comments
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Gmail v. 3.141592(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by lostinpoetics 12y ago|0 comments
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
somewhat agree that it's a tough topic to start with, but regexes are one of the few things that can be immediately applied. a lot of the practice of law (esp. early in your career) is pretty mundane and repetitive stuff. couple that w
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
agreed. a close second is the confusion between a published application and an issued patent.
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
while the decision is pretty tightly tailored, it seems like it's SCOTUS' way of opening the door for subsequent arguments regarding pure software patents. take google's page rank patent[1]. one could argue that assigning sco
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
generally agree. however, 10k is a pretty high estimate unless you want to patent something extremely complex or in operate in a complicated area (generally limited to SC fab or pharma with some others along those lines). most small to mid-
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by lostinpoetics 12y ago
while this isn't 100% inaccurate, one major headache are vague rulings from SCOTUS. the "reasonable certainty" test is a good example as well as their "abstract means abstract" pseudo-standards. while SCOTUS paints
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New York State Cracks Down on 'Patent Trolls'(online.wsj.com)
2 points by lostinpoetics 13y ago|0 comments
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Former Google executive to run U.S. patent office(reuters.com)
4 points by lostinpoetics 13y ago|0 comments
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by lostinpoetics 13y ago
My main concern with these bond requirement bills (of which there have been many, most notably the SHIELD act introduced by DeFazio and Chaffetz) is the creation of "super trolls" due to smaller trolls offloading assets since liti
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by lostinpoetics 13y ago
> In many situations, people with legitimate claims have been unable to overcome the heightened pleading standard, not because their claim is weak, but because the evidence required to plead the claim is difficult to come by. the "u