They paid $10K in back wages, and $60K in legal expenses, which he gets to keep. It was the $80K in punitive damages that were forfeited by the blabbermouthing.
The father was bound by it, and breached it by telling her daughter. That alone would be cause to refuse payment. His daughter being a blabbermouth just got him caught for it.
While I don't agree that the settlement should have been confidential in the first place, a contract is a contract and he broke the damn rules.
I hope the lawyers eat their fill out of what he DID keep, and then he loses in the final appeal and gets left hung out to dry.
We hate it when big corporations weasel out of their promises, so I don't really think it's kosher to let Joe Sixpack have a free pass doing the same thing.
And honestly, I oppose confidentiality clauses on principle. This 80 grand was nothing more than hush money to bribe dad to keep his trap shut about what the company did, and this is the sort of thing the public needs to be warned about.
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Apparently, they want to stall, becuase if they deny the patent it could be appealed in court.
So, they just sit on it.
So basically they're keeping it in limbo on purpose.
Don't you know that corporations and the "elite" have more privileges and rights than lowly peons like this inventor?
The daughter didn't breach anything, she just got his dad busted for telling HER about it.
They paid $10K in back wages, and $60K in legal expenses, which he gets to keep. It was the $80K in punitive damages that were forfeited by the blabbermouthing.
The father was bound by it, and breached it by telling her daughter. That alone would be cause to refuse payment. His daughter being a blabbermouth just got him caught for it.
While I don't agree that the settlement should have been confidential in the first place, a contract is a contract and he broke the damn rules.
I hope the lawyers eat their fill out of what he DID keep, and then he loses in the final appeal and gets left hung out to dry.
We hate it when big corporations weasel out of their promises, so I don't really think it's kosher to let Joe Sixpack have a free pass doing the same thing.
And honestly, I oppose confidentiality clauses on principle. This 80 grand was nothing more than hush money to bribe dad to keep his trap shut about what the company did, and this is the sort of thing the public needs to be warned about.
So you use virtualization to sort?
Trippy.
If anything this will only put more pressure on governments to cockblock bitcoins.
Sometimes I wonder if it's a conspiracy to get bitcoin banned and shoved into the black market.
Spectrum should be owned by the public and rented on an annual basis to the private sector to the highest bidder.
This brings in competition that will keep companies from buying it and then sitting on their ass doing nothing with it.
One thing it has that bitcoin lacks: official buy-in from sovereign nations.
With dollars, you can spend them pretty much wherever you want.
The usability of bitcoin is vulnerable to sovereign nations throwing hissy fits and banning or seizing it arbitrarily.
Depends, is the new scanning done in series or parallel to the old scanning?
Tickets are non refundable. Beyond lost sales in the future and bad word of mouth they have nothing to lose from you walking out without boarding.
The TSA of course knows this.
It's more like an oblate spheroid because it spins.
Hand in your geek card.
A troll is ultimately whatever the site administration says it is.
Because in the end it's their call to make.
Legislation is only an option if the new laws are actually obeyed.
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Able? Yes.
Willing? Hell no.
And this is why statutory damages are usually sought.
The obvious implication is that game vendors like screwing users in the ass when it comes to software freedom.
They're keeping the patents though.
It does have to be fair AND consistent.
The first part is substantiative due process, the second part is procedural due process.
This is also checked by the clause regarding cruel and unusual punishment.
Monsanto has a patent on camel's backs.
You don't have an unconditional right to freedom. What you do have is the right to due process before it is taken away.