I give them my information precisely because they are courteous enough to give me the choice to say no. That's why they get my business. Their willingness to go without means I trust them.
Paying for incoming calls and texts should only be allowed if you in exchange get free caller ID so that you have the option to reject calls and texts you don't want.
How do you properly grant high priority traffic, well, priority, without at the same time opening the door for cheaters that simply want to pimp out high throughput and don't care about stomping on everyone else?
It's a win/win for the CEO as well as the poor slobs in india who have more to gain and less to lose by accepting piss poor pay and working conditions when the company outsources.
Mostly for the CEO though, who only has to offer enough of the pie he stole from US workers to make it marginally better for an outsourcee to take the job.
And in a third world country, he doesn't have to offer very much.
Don't pay the fee, get your patent revoked or suspended. Then either you can't sue, or any money you get from a lawsuit on a patent goes to the PTO for delinquent fees.
When you wrote it off as insignificant you pretty much abandoned it. Now, unless someone actually *steals* your research, why should they suffer because you gave them the silent treatment?
Unless they eavesdropped, they were just as creative as you were, and shouldn't be deprived of a patent just because you were too lazy to publish your freaking prior art.
a) no, your specs become prior art. b) no, since they didn't get the patent they needed to spank you
In practice
a) yes, because the PTO is dumb as a box of rocks and will rubber stamp anything. b) yes, because they have enough legal and financial muscle to push you around until you cave.
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We tried that already. It was ruled unconstitutional.
Too many sheep brainwashed by corporate media vote the lobbied masses into office for the rest of us to do anything about it.
I give them my information precisely because they are courteous enough to give me the choice to say no. That's why they get my business. Their willingness to go without means I trust them.
I would rather have competition too, myself.
Have the hackers arrested and thrown in prison for fraud.
My solution just keeps patent holders from stiffing the PTO.
A comment about "owed fees" seemed to indicate fee delinquencies.
That's easy to fix.
Just throttle SMS well below machinable standards so that IP over SMS doesn't even give dialup a run for the money.
Paying for incoming calls and texts should only be allowed if you in exchange get free caller ID so that you have the option to reject calls and texts you don't want.
Then maybe treble damages for willful infringement has a bullshit setup that doesn't take into account the fact that legalese is hard to parse?
At any rate, the incentive to not do patent research needs to go away.
Question:
How do you properly grant high priority traffic, well, priority, without at the same time opening the door for cheaters that simply want to pimp out high throughput and don't care about stomping on everyone else?
Parent was probably saying that network traffic qualifies as speech.
Natural monopolies where redundant capital costs make competition inefficient should also be cases where the government IS the monopoly.
Internet access, because of its capital heavy nature, should be a publicly owned utility just like water and electricity.
I think it's a great idea.
So great that Monticello got their asses sued off by TDS when they tried it.
Your assumption fails, and that's why your conclusion fails.
The justice department is just as whored out to big business as the rest of the government. Or did you forget all the RIAA lawyers Obama hired?
Or diplomatic cables.
It's a win/win for the CEO as well as the poor slobs in india who have more to gain and less to lose by accepting piss poor pay and working conditions when the company outsources.
Mostly for the CEO though, who only has to offer enough of the pie he stole from US workers to make it marginally better for an outsourcee to take the job.
And in a third world country, he doesn't have to offer very much.
That's simple.
Don't pay the fee, get your patent revoked or suspended. Then either you can't sue, or any money you get from a lawsuit on a patent goes to the PTO for delinquent fees.
If I beat you to the market with something similiar enough to infringe the patent and get sued over it, it should damn well count as prior art.
I'm pretty sure that you're immune to your own prior art for about a year.
As far as the stove case goes, Franklin's sale to the other guy counts as prior art.
In theory, falsifying dates will get you a hefty dose of federal prison time for perjury.
That's your own fault for sleeping on your specs.
When you wrote it off as insignificant you pretty much abandoned it. Now, unless someone actually *steals* your research, why should they suffer because you gave them the silent treatment?
Unless they eavesdropped, they were just as creative as you were, and shouldn't be deprived of a patent just because you were too lazy to publish your freaking prior art.
If you were the author of said prior art, I fail to see how that makes it not novel, since it's still original.
Aren't you immune to your own prior art?
You say first to file favors the corporation.
How does that differ from the present situation though?
In theory:
a) no, your specs become prior art.
b) no, since they didn't get the patent they needed to spank you
In practice
a) yes, because the PTO is dumb as a box of rocks and will rubber stamp anything.
b) yes, because they have enough legal and financial muscle to push you around until you cave.
Then make it so willful failure to do due diligence results in treble damages.
As far as ethics go, willfully turning a blind eye is just as bad as seeing and purposefully ignoring it.