I don't think you meant requests for reexamination, which are generally a Good Thing. A reexamination is a way to try to invalidate an already issued patent. Solid patents can usually withstand a reexamination, while poor ones can be invalidated by a reexam with relatively low costs.
Maybe you meant Requests for Continued Examination (RCE)?
Or a Breen
(should I be ashamed or proud I know that?)
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Palm had a near success with the Foleo, too. They were oh so close to the success of the eeePC with the Foleo. If you look at the Foleo and the eeePC side by side distinct similarities arise. They were probably born of the same thought process. Palm just missed a couple critical factors. The Foleo was too expensive and didn't have enough storage, but other than that, it's a stones throw away from an eeePC. Oh what a difference a few mere months, a few dollars, and a little design facelift would have made for the Foleo if only Palm had the guts to stick it out and find the right formula.
RIAA can print whatever language they want on a CD or CD label, it doesn't change the law or affect liabilities and defenses of the parties.
Fair use is a valid defense against copyright infringement, as long as fair use can be established. The problem is that fair use is not as precisely defined as most slashdotters would like and probably never will be.
Although this idea sounds great because it brings us in accordance with the rest of the patent systems in the world, there is a problem. The problem is that first to file systems, as opposed to first to invent, promote sloppy, careless filing. If you have to file first to claim your patent right, you will be inclined to broadly, generally claim your invention just so you can file it before anyone else does. It will increase the paperwork in the patent office to amend the poorly drafted original claims.
That's how I see it.
Most frustrating wall in my gaming career was when I was 10 or 11 in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game on DOS. I couldn't get off Zaphod's ship. I just kept wandering from room to room taking wild stabs at the right actions to take. Maybe I could figure it out now if I tried, but as an 11 year old I spent probably 3 months stuck and finally vowed never to try the game again.
No, that's part of the reason we have a statuTe of limitations. But in this case it would probably more like acquiescence or laches if more time than just 3 years had lapsed.
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Get badgers coding on a linux terminal installed on a dead badger.. that would be a neat trick!
Early PONIES!!!
I don't think you meant requests for reexamination, which are generally a Good Thing. A reexamination is a way to try to invalidate an already issued patent. Solid patents can usually withstand a reexamination, while poor ones can be invalidated by a reexam with relatively low costs.
Maybe you meant Requests for Continued Examination (RCE)?
Yes I am a lawyer. The Venn Diagram of techies and lawyers has at least *some* intersection.
It was the Woot item that evening.
Or a Breen (should I be ashamed or proud I know that?)
Palm had a near success with the Foleo, too. They were oh so close to the success of the eeePC with the Foleo. If you look at the Foleo and the eeePC side by side distinct similarities arise. They were probably born of the same thought process. Palm just missed a couple critical factors. The Foleo was too expensive and didn't have enough storage, but other than that, it's a stones throw away from an eeePC. Oh what a difference a few mere months, a few dollars, and a little design facelift would have made for the Foleo if only Palm had the guts to stick it out and find the right formula.
RIAA can print whatever language they want on a CD or CD label, it doesn't change the law or affect liabilities and defenses of the parties.
Fair use is a valid defense against copyright infringement, as long as fair use can be established. The problem is that fair use is not as precisely defined as most slashdotters would like and probably never will be.
And you didn't know about Firefox Portable?
I don't think I'd pay pennies, but I'd definitely pay Schrute Bucks
The *REAL* question is will it play Duke Nukem Forever?
Is this statistic from the same people who calculated the European HD-DVD market share?
Or a lawyer that mixes up "trail" and "trial"
I'd bet Starbucks, not McD.
If they have a patent, it is already public knowledge whether they sue or not.
Nope, Microsoft'd lose that one! The patent filed in 1929 is expired by now :)
I should clarify: I was thinking (and should have been typing) that it sounds great to politicians and policy-makers.
Although this idea sounds great because it brings us in accordance with the rest of the patent systems in the world, there is a problem. The problem is that first to file systems, as opposed to first to invent, promote sloppy, careless filing. If you have to file first to claim your patent right, you will be inclined to broadly, generally claim your invention just so you can file it before anyone else does. It will increase the paperwork in the patent office to amend the poorly drafted original claims. That's how I see it.
No Wii port?
Most frustrating wall in my gaming career was when I was 10 or 11 in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game on DOS. I couldn't get off Zaphod's ship. I just kept wandering from room to room taking wild stabs at the right actions to take. Maybe I could figure it out now if I tried, but as an 11 year old I spent probably 3 months stuck and finally vowed never to try the game again.
Wow, I can't believe how much of a geek I am that I knew without looking anything up that it was Hotblack Desiato, not Desoto.
Let's put it this way, It beats the finest, fastest supercomputer that 1974 had to offer.
We Love Katamari is amazing fun with two players, if a little shallow. (Darn ♥ ; didn't work)
There's your answer, fishbulb.
No, that's part of the reason we have a statuTe of limitations. But in this case it would probably more like acquiescence or laches if more time than just 3 years had lapsed.