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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 02:12 PM EDT |
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ww982/iama_patent_examiner_i_want_to_an
swer_questions/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 02:48 PM EDT |
THE COURT: I do have my criminal calendar in 45 minutes, so I'll need the
tables. You can leave all your other stuff over there on the side of the room.
Gosh, he was also hearing criminal matters the same day? No wonder he
was so strict about managing the court's time. There's a page here for
Judge Koh!
(Christenson)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 03:07 PM EDT |
I've spent the last couple of hours reading the article, and find it both
informative and fascinating.
May we have a "jump to comments" link, please?
Thank you![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: vadim on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 06:57 PM EDT |
This is about a newspick about Amazon proposing advertising opt-out
for
$15.
IANAL of course but it seems to me that this is completely illegal.
According to Federal CAN SPAM act
(http://www.ftc.gov/os/2008/05/R411008frn.pdf)
"to submit a valid opt-out request, a recipient cannot be required to pay
a fee, provide information other than his or her email address and opt-
out preferences, or take any steps other than sending a reply email
message or visiting a single page on an Internet website"
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 11:24 PM EDT |
"This little-known Chinese company has just announced the
launch of its own iPhone 5 look-alike, the Goophone I5, and
says it has already patented it in China, according to
Gizchina.com. It may even consider suing Apple when the
Cupertino company starts selling its sixth-generation iPhone
in China, reports the tech and gadgets website."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Goophone-
knockoff-symbol-of-patent-mess-3851857.php#ixzz2629E4NRY[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 03:10 AM EDT |
Sixteen courses and two new platforms for interactive learning will
highlight Stanford's free online offerings this fall, with more to follow during
winter and spring quarters.
From cryptography to science writing, technology
entrepreneurship, finance and a crash course in creativity, the courses are open
to anyone with a computer, anywhere.
Stanford
---
and then there's this
http://www.class-central.com/
not quite ready for that? start here:
http://www.khanacademy.org/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 05:28 AM EDT |
| "Microsoft has licensed
Lotus-to-anything migration software from Binary Tree, and plans to use its
partner's wares to lure Lotus customers away from IBM and into the cloud" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 07:33 AM EDT |
My attention wandered when the judge was talking about the time-line document.
I got a picture of the jury in Apple v. Samsung being presented with a
fridge door with a time-line on it and a fridge magnet for each of the 'phones
mentioned in the trial.
Something a little more serious came out of the
musing.
Apple claim that Samsung slavishly copied the iPhone, but how
could that be, looking at the timeline? Apple are asking us to believe that
Samsung would want to copy the design of a smartphone from a company that had no
marketing history in the smartphone market in 2007.
In fact, the form
factor of the Samsung F700 was already designed and
displayed at CEBIT the year before the iPhone was displayed at MacWorld
in January 2007 and released at the end of June, 2007.
If Steve Jobs
had waved the F700 at the iPhone MacWorld event, would anyone have noticed the
difference in the icons? Once the rounded corners are shown to have prior art
from Samsung and others demonstrated at the top world electronics events, just
how much can the combination of slightly similar icons and icon layout with that
prior art be considered to be Apple's unique trade dress? Steve Jobs may have
been famous in 2007, but the iPhone and iPad trade dress were
not.
There is something else to compare with the Oracle v. Google trial
when jury instructions are considered.---
Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 08:14 AM EDT |
| The reason I ask is that I have just had to purchase a cheap Windoze 7 laptop,
to replace the cheap, nasty HP one that failed just out of the warranty period,
becuase I need Windoze three or four times a year for certain things. The new
laptop, an ASUS, seems to be ok, but the inevitable initialisation of Windows
produced the need to accept the licence for the Bing toolbar, thus causing it to
be installed, as it would not proceed until that was done. I do not want a
broken search engine like Bing. Almost the entire world uses Google because it
is better. But, more seriously, it did not present any browser selection
screen (or was that it?) as mandated by an EU ruling. I live in the UK, which
last time I checked was part of the EU. I do not want a broken, insecure and
dysfunctional browser like IE, and the EU has wisely ruled that I do not have to
have it as the default, but must be presented with a choice. So once
again, the expert in furniture ballistics and repetitive chanting of the "d"
word while emulating a monkey, if nothing else, has agreed to do something and
it has not been done. I think it is time that the EU imposed the maximum fine
which they can, 10% of their annual worldwide turnover, as otherwise they are
going to continue to flout every ruling by any government or court that they
don't like. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 10:42 AM EDT |
| Another ruling that may hurt apple:
CNET article. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 12:20 PM EDT |
Abstract. It is known that BitTorrent file-sharing traffic is
analysed to
identify exchangers of copyrighted material. In general, copyright
holders
can perform monitoring using two approaches: indirect monitoring,
where
indirect clues of the sharing activity of a peer are considered (e.g.,
its
presence in the peer list of a tracker), and direct monitoring, which
estab-
lishes connections with peers to estimate their participation in sharing
ac-
tivity. Previous research has focused exclusively on indirect
monitoring.
We provide a broader characterisation of the monitoring of
BitTorrent
activity by considering both indirect and direct monitoring. In
particu-
lar, we review previous work on indirect monitoring, provide features
to
detect peers engaged in such monitoring, and apply them to identify a
number
of monitoring organisations. Additionally, we introduce features
that detect
direct monitors, and provide the first ever measurements of
direct monitoring,
showing that it is now occurring.
Tom Chothia, Marco Cova, Chris
Novakovic, and Camilo González Toro
School of Computer Science, University
of Birmingham, UK
[.PDF 18 pages]
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/Papers/P2PMonitor.pdf [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 02:52 PM EDT |
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/09/10/president-gets-pick-me
Two big guys hugging[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 05:35 PM EDT |
No, not me, another named anonymous.
But wait, he's not anonymous, I'm anonymous.
You have to believe me.
(As Forest Gump would say: Anonymous is as Anonymous does.)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 05:52 PM EDT |
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/apple_htc_patent/
"Judge tells Apple: 'I have to be pretty darn certain a US patent is
invalid'"
Hey, Steve J! It's definitely escalated to global thermonuclear war up here! Is
the rubble bouncing down there yet?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 03:09 PM EDT |
Saw him fight once in DC and met him in Carlsbad, CA. Nice fella. He was the
greatest heavy weight ever. Just like he said.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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