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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 11:26 PM EDT |
shanghailist.com
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| Authored by: TerryC on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 05:00 AM EDT |
Apple are the target of yet another patent infringement lawsuit:
LED Tech
Development LLC has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The
patent infringement lawsuit concerns four granted patents that they claim
Apple's iPad 3 and MacBook Pro infringe upon....
The company is
claiming Apple's products utilizing pulse-width modulation signals to drive
light-emitting diodes, include the iPad 3 tablet device and MacBook Pro
notebook. According to LED, the facts learned in the discovery process show that
the infringement of LED Tech's patents is or has been willful.
On the one hand, I'm quietly cheering that Apple is the target of
yet another patent dispute; I believe that they reap as they sow.
On the
other hand, this patent looks to be yet another 'take something that we've done
for years and patent it because it's being done on a new device' scam. The
use of PWM to control power to a device has been around many many years;
initially, I believe, in switch mode power supplies but latterly in DC motor
control and of course in lamp dimmers.
How come the US patent Office
thinks that this is novel just because the device is an LED instead of any one
of the multitude of previous components?
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Just think; if
Microsoft added 'You hereby grant us a license to print money' to their EULA, it
wouldn't change its meaning a bit.
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- Apple Sued for Patent Infringement (LED Lighting) - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 07:28 AM EDT
- Apple Sued for Patent Infringement (LED Lighting) - Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 07:34 AM EDT
- Apple Sued for Patent Infringement (LED Lighting) - Authored by: hairbear on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 10:34 AM EDT
- Apple Sued for Patent Infringement (LED Lighting) - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 11:05 AM EDT
- Apple Sued for Patent Infringement (LED Lighting) - Authored by: albert on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT
- Jurisdiction? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 02:30 PM EDT
- Jurisdiction? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 02:35 PM EDT
- Apple Sued for Patent Infringement (LED Lighting) - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 06:35 AM EDT
- ...but latterly in DC motor control... - Authored by: artp on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 12:13 PM EDT
- Apple Sued for Patent Infringement (LED Lighting) - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 02:41 AM EDT
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| Authored by: albert on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 12:08 PM EDT |
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- Maybe! - Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 08:29 AM EDT
- Maybe! - Authored by: albert on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 01:21 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 12:13 PM EDT |
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public
interest law at George Washington University.
Below is my column
today in the Washington Post on the decline of free speech in Western
countries.
Speech is being balkanized into prohibited and permitted areas by
redefining speech in terms of its social impact. Increasingly, it seems that the
West is re-discovering the tranquility that comes with forced silence. What is
fascinating is that this trend is based on principles of tolerance and pluralism
— once viewed as the values underlying free speech.
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/10/14/the-death-of-free-speech/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 12:52 PM EDT |
| Low-paid factory staff have been given targets of producing one gadget every 30
seconds, 1000 a day, or be sacked.
Banned from talking to one
another.
Fines for visiting the toilet more than three times in the grueling
shift hours.
The take-home salary adds up to just 230 pounds a month.
In
the three months up to the launch 180,000 passed through the hands of one
worker.
Workers in Chinese
factory reveal ‘life of hell’ producing iPhone 5 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 01:05 PM EDT |
Happening now! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: hardmath on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 11:46 PM EDT |
| Link
An NVIDIA developer has proposed
removing a GPL marker from a Linux kernel driver interface, apparently so that
it can be reused with proprietary drivers.
I suppose this is a somewhat
unhappy implication of the notion that APIs are not copyrightable. That is, the
GPL depends on the existence of a copyright for its enforcement, and if only an
interface is being reused, sans copyright there is no GPL
violation.
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Recursion is the opiate of the mathists. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 03:37 AM EDT |
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/28/patent_system_bruised_or_borked/
Not one I would agree with though.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT |
Why is it that every important post gets massive numbers of trolls filling up
the forum?
They have never read the article, and tend to ask questions where an irritated
commentor could answer with a quote from the article itself, and nothing else.
It makes me understand why some people brows with anonimous posters disabled.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Yep - n/t - Authored by: Tufty on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 01:09 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 01:07 PM EDT |
| bit of a thick read, but worth it
http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2012.10.14/1427.html
"Andrew
Lo, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his co-authors want to do
it prospectively, raising a fund to support a large fund – a megafund, they call
it – to invest in a carefully diversified portfolio of around 150 little
research ventures in university-affiliated laboratories around the country. In
principle their scheme is not much different from those buccaneering companies
that go searching for various undersea shipwrecks. In fact, the scheme rests on
a careful simulation using historical data for new molecular entities in
oncology that appeared between 1990 and 2011.
If the success rate in the
future were pretty much like that of the past, they say, megafunds of $5
billion to $15 billion could yield investment returns of 8.9 percent to 11.4
percent to equity holders and 5 percent to 8 percent to holders of
research-backed obligations – returns too low for venture capitalists, but just
the thing to interest pension funds, insurance companies and other big
institutional investors.
The opportunity exists because of the widespread
consensus that the current basis for developing cancer drugs is not working,
despite the vast sums being spent." [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jmc on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 02:46 PM EDT |
Decision on Apple's appeal of UK court decision (that Samsung don't infringe and
Apple have to say so) being delivered on Thursday morning.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 04:44 PM EDT |
| "The shadow of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back in Europe.
It is disguised as CETA, the Canada-European Union and Trade Agreement .. A
comparison of the leaked draft Canada-EU agreement shows the treaty includes a
number of the same controversial provisions, specifically concerning criminal
enforcement, private enforcement by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and harsh
damages". link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 02:22 AM EDT |
Astronomers have found a planet whose skies are
illuminated by four
different suns - the first known of its
type.
The distant world orbits one
pair of stars and has a second
stellar pair revolving around it.
The
discovery was made by volunteers using the
Planethunters.org website along with
a team from UK and US
institutes; follow-up observations were made with the
Keck
Observatory.
Paul Rincon,
BBC
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 06:13 AM EDT |
| Celebrating the achievements of women in science,
technology, engineering
and maths
Finding Ada
Ada
Lovelace,
Wikipedia
Marie
Curie, Wikipedia
The Case for Marie Curie Day
by John
Graham-Cumming
I haven't been able to figure out why 16 October was
choosen - anyone know? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 07:13 AM EDT |
| "Smoothlife (paper, source code is a
floating-point version of the old Game of Life, a classic of evolutionary
computing and genetic algorithms. By adding floating point math to the mix,
Smoothlife produces an absolutely lovely output" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 07:54 AM EDT |
| Link I seem to
remember that there was another legal case involving a similar item of furniture
and some ballistics.... It will soon not even be safe to sit down without
consulting your lawyer first. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 08:20 AM EDT |
| If this
is for real. it will be at variance with the rest of the world, and will be
setting the clock back quite a few years. I don't know when "implied copyright"
as it is called in some places, or its equivalent in other jurisdictions, became
universal, or nearly so, but it was quite a few years back. It would solve one
problem, the software I grumbled about recently would actually
be usable. It might have solved another problem too, with the SCOundrels and
UNIX, except that EU copyright law has no standing in the US. But it does seem
to me to be a bad thing to disturb the uniformity and consensus which has been
achieved (almost) worldwide on what is and is not copyrighted. On the other
hand, only one country keeps extending the term of copyright on ancient
works.... I think another "Berne" convention is goingto be needed to compel
the US and EU to get back into line, not that the US, and probably not the EU
either, would take any notice if it did not suit their own parochial interests,
or those of the puppetmasters who fund the election of certain levels of
government. PJ and Mark, I wonder if there is going to be enough here for an
article, if the EU does meddle with copyright law? Certainly it seems to be
worth watching. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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