Assuming that the design patent that I saw is the one that Apple accused Samsung of infringing (it was linked to on Slashdot, so that's a big assumption, I know), it really was just a rectangle with rounded corners and a screen.
You do realize that one of the reasons why more countries don't attack the USA is because our "larger" military and our perchance to whip it out if provoked.
Or, ya know, it could be those really big nukes that would turn most of those countries into a glass pit. If it came down to an actual all-out war, the United states has enough long-range weapons that the number of ground troops would be just about irrelevant.
Someone farther up mentioned Ni-62 and Ni-64. The numbers I found are:
Ni-62: 61.9283461 Ni-64: 63.9279679
Cu-63: 62.9295989 Cu-65: 64.9277929
With a proton having an atomic mass of 1.007, it looks you should get a little energy out of the fusion.
Well samsung is actually doing this in revenge for a hardware patent, admitted a retartedly vague one for a rounded rectangle with a touch screen, but that no less is a hardware patent.
It was a design patent (or the European equivalent). It's important to distinguish between utility patents and design patents.
And if by "branded" you meant "carrier-customized firmware", is there a way to buy a phone compatible with a non-AT&T U.S. carrier (that is, Verizon Wireless or Sprint) without buying it from the carrier?
If you consider T-Mobile to still be "non-AT&T", they'll gladly sell you service for a phone that you already have. I think it's still $20/month cheaper, too.
Yea, like the military blowing the crap out of poor people and instigating coups in banana republics have ever protected my house. If anything they have made it more likely my house will be destroyed.
A dictator builds multiple palaces while his people starve. We throw his ass out and we are accused "blowing the crap out of poor people".
You missed the step that comes after that. No, it isn't "???" or "Profit!" It's "the dictator that we install instead builds multiple palaces while his people starve." Rinse, repeat.
Not really. The Republicans are such goddamn bullies they forced their shit on us. The Democrats being spineless cowards allowed the Reps to push them around.
Hellooo? Health-care reform? Every poll said that Americans did not want it. The republicans forced that on us?
Exactly 1 republican in both house and senate, combined, voted for it.
Consider the fact that the health care reform bill that passed had pretty much nothing that most of the Democrats wanted, because that was the only way to even allow it to be voted on. Yes, the Democrats were spineless cowards that let the Republicans push them around.
Obvious doesn't mean that, obvious means that it's obvious to somebody that's not skilled in the art.
No, the correct phrase is "a person of ordinary skill in the art". It doesn't have to be obvious to my grandmother, but to a typical programmer, engineer, etc.
wouldn't, in the course of the suits, the patents get thoroughly vetted by the USPTO, under scrutiny of the court
Nope. The patent stands until the USPTO invalidates it.
You're both incorrect.
The USPTO is not directly involved in litigation, so the patent is only vetted by the court as part of the lawsuit. The USPTO can also reexamine a previously issued patent, but this is generally independent of a specific lawsuit.
A federal court can invalidate a patent on its own as part of a lawsuit. The USPTO is not directly involved with this decision.
160 alpha-numeric characters including punctuation gives you a huge data storage potential if you encode it correctly.
It gives you the same amount of data storage potential as 160 bytes (assuming SMS uses single-byte characters; even if it were multibyte characters, you'd still have under 1 KB). Even with damn good compression algorithms, I doubt most web pages would be under 160 bytes.
I don't suppose it occurred you that this technology is also a weapons system, a WMD class weapons system.
And by "M" you mean worldwide. I can think of a couple nations with leaders crazy enough to do something that would most likely lead to their own destruction, but China isn't one of them.
Aren't "signing statements" additions that the president makes to laws passed by Congress (i.e. when the president signs the bill)? I don't think Obama can make signing statements about judicial and agency nominees that are never even voted on.
"How Large" is very much something for the judge to decide. It is entirely up to him how punitive he wants to be and how much damage he wants to inflict on the "perpetrator". He has the option to act in a more just manner.
I don't know exactly how the courts for the EU and the individual members work, but in the United States, there are two "courts" for patent infringement, the regular judicial courts and the International Trade Comission (ITC). The ITC is part of the executive, and the only remedy it has is to block the import of products. A regular court could in theory award $100 in damages (not that they ever would award an amount that small, but you get the point), but the ITC has no authority to award damages.
disagree - anything a decent engineer can come up with to solve a problem can be patentable as long as he shows a full working system (even if not installed or directly implemented yet), and describes what it does.
Except that "anything a decent engineer can come up with" is, by definition, not inventive, but merely the result of ordinary skill in the art.
This is a design patent (or the equivalent in Europe), which is not the same thing as a utility patent. Design patents are more like trademarks than they are like utility patents.
"Software engineers" don't do web programming... They do real programming - writing device drivers, tuning graphical libraries , writing massively parallel simulation code.
Actually, "programmers" do real programming. "Software engineers" do the design and architecture of software systems. In small companies or groups, the software engineers and programmers are frequently the same people, but it's two different tasks that can potentially be done by different people.
Uhm, we're all patent experts. Any of us who have been following these patent cases and learning all the gritty details behind the scenes are becoming patent experts.
I know patent experts. Almost nobody that posts on Slashdot is even remotely close.
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The design case is not about "a rectangle".
Assuming that the design patent that I saw is the one that Apple accused Samsung of infringing (it was linked to on Slashdot, so that's a big assumption, I know), it really was just a rectangle with rounded corners and a screen.
After a quick Google search, I found this one - http://www.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-000181607-0001. Of course, that's from Troll-of-the-Century Florian, so keep the grains of salt handy.
You do realize that one of the reasons why more countries don't attack the USA is because our "larger" military and our perchance to whip it out if provoked.
Or, ya know, it could be those really big nukes that would turn most of those countries into a glass pit. If it came down to an actual all-out war, the United states has enough long-range weapons that the number of ground troops would be just about irrelevant.
P.S.: I know that iron is the bottom of the hill, which means I've clearly missed something here. Others are free to make corrections.
Someone farther up mentioned Ni-62 and Ni-64. The numbers I found are:
Ni-62: 61.9283461 Ni-64: 63.9279679
Cu-63: 62.9295989 Cu-65: 64.9277929
With a proton having an atomic mass of 1.007, it looks you should get a little energy out of the fusion.
Well samsung is actually doing this in revenge for a hardware patent, admitted a retartedly vague one for a rounded rectangle with a touch screen, but that no less is a hardware patent.
It was a design patent (or the European equivalent). It's important to distinguish between utility patents and design patents.
And if by "branded" you meant "carrier-customized firmware", is there a way to buy a phone compatible with a non-AT&T U.S. carrier (that is, Verizon Wireless or Sprint) without buying it from the carrier?
If you consider T-Mobile to still be "non-AT&T", they'll gladly sell you service for a phone that you already have. I think it's still $20/month cheaper, too.
Yea, like the military blowing the crap out of poor people and instigating coups in banana republics have ever protected my house. If anything they have made it more likely my house will be destroyed.
A dictator builds multiple palaces while his people starve. We throw his ass out and we are accused "blowing the crap out of poor people".
You missed the step that comes after that. No, it isn't "???" or "Profit!" It's "the dictator that we install instead builds multiple palaces while his people starve." Rinse, repeat.
Not really. The Republicans are such goddamn bullies they forced their shit on us. The Democrats being spineless cowards allowed the Reps to push them around.
Hellooo? Health-care reform? Every poll said that Americans did not want it. The republicans forced that on us? Exactly 1 republican in both house and senate, combined, voted for it.
Consider the fact that the health care reform bill that passed had pretty much nothing that most of the Democrats wanted, because that was the only way to even allow it to be voted on. Yes, the Democrats were spineless cowards that let the Republicans push them around.
"Prior Art" appears to be exactly what this bill does away with, no?
No.
Obvious doesn't mean that, obvious means that it's obvious to somebody that's not skilled in the art.
No, the correct phrase is "a person of ordinary skill in the art". It doesn't have to be obvious to my grandmother, but to a typical programmer, engineer, etc.
Nope. The patent stands until the USPTO invalidates it.
You're both incorrect.
The USPTO is not directly involved in litigation, so the patent is only vetted by the court as part of the lawsuit. The USPTO can also reexamine a previously issued patent, but this is generally independent of a specific lawsuit.
A federal court can invalidate a patent on its own as part of a lawsuit. The USPTO is not directly involved with this decision.
160 alpha-numeric characters including punctuation gives you a huge data storage potential if you encode it correctly.
It gives you the same amount of data storage potential as 160 bytes (assuming SMS uses single-byte characters; even if it were multibyte characters, you'd still have under 1 KB). Even with damn good compression algorithms, I doubt most web pages would be under 160 bytes.
Funny, I've never seen Google misspelled as Apple. That's the craziest typo I've ever seen.
The keys are like right next to each other
I don't suppose it occurred you that this technology is also a weapons system, a WMD class weapons system.
And by "M" you mean worldwide. I can think of a couple nations with leaders crazy enough to do something that would most likely lead to their own destruction, but China isn't one of them.
Classic
As someone else pointed out, he can unilaterally appoint people when Congress is on vacation, though Bush also took a lot of heat for that tactic.
Aren't "signing statements" additions that the president makes to laws passed by Congress (i.e. when the president signs the bill)? I don't think Obama can make signing statements about judicial and agency nominees that are never even voted on.
"How Large" is very much something for the judge to decide. It is entirely up to him how punitive he wants to be and how much damage he wants to inflict on the "perpetrator". He has the option to act in a more just manner.
I don't know exactly how the courts for the EU and the individual members work, but in the United States, there are two "courts" for patent infringement, the regular judicial courts and the International Trade Comission (ITC). The ITC is part of the executive, and the only remedy it has is to block the import of products. A regular court could in theory award $100 in damages (not that they ever would award an amount that small, but you get the point), but the ITC has no authority to award damages.
disagree - anything a decent engineer can come up with to solve a problem can be patentable as long as he shows a full working system (even if not installed or directly implemented yet), and describes what it does.
Except that "anything a decent engineer can come up with" is, by definition, not inventive, but merely the result of ordinary skill in the art.
This is a design patent (or the equivalent in Europe), which is not the same thing as a utility patent. Design patents are more like trademarks than they are like utility patents.
"Software engineers" don't do web programming... They do real programming - writing device drivers, tuning graphical libraries , writing massively parallel simulation code.
Actually, "programmers" do real programming. "Software engineers" do the design and architecture of software systems. In small companies or groups, the software engineers and programmers are frequently the same people, but it's two different tasks that can potentially be done by different people.
It's a bit of both. I see a lot of cars turn/change lane without signalling when the driver's holding a phone to their head.
Not using your turn signal is the standard around here. Can't really blame that one on cell phones.
Hey, if I can (just barely) make it on an $85M one time pay out, I'm sure he can make it on double that.
You could give me a measly $75M instead of giving this other person $85M. I think I could somehow manage to survive, though it will be tough.
Uhm, we're all patent experts. Any of us who have been following these patent cases and learning all the gritty details behind the scenes are becoming patent experts.
I know patent experts. Almost nobody that posts on Slashdot is even remotely close.
like he says below, the stories are edited before publishing.
Hahahahahahahahaha.
You made a funny.