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| Authored by: kjs on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 04:02 PM EDT |
yes, and there's no need to lawyer up as it would be the case in the US. Once
you filed the form and provided the reasons/prior art the German patent office
takes care of the rest. All your lawyers would do is eat your money.
The same is for patents. My company just had one overturned as someone filed
such a form and provided so far unknown prior art. All they did was filing and
paying the few Euros.
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| Authored by: mschmitz on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 04:12 PM EDT |
I concur - it appears whoever translated the original news bit wasn't properly
speaking US English Legalese (tm). In all likelihood it would not have been a
native English speaker.
Or was it a case of Google Translate ? :-)
I had to look closer through the h-online news feed to even find the report.
Definitely looks like a sleazy attempt to capitalize on a tech scene the company
does not really understand (they are more into 'scene' than 'tech' it seems -
not certain this pun even makes sense in English). When it blew up in their
face, they even tried to get the CCC to help them out of the mess. Priceless.
By the way - they initially _did_ ask for license fees to the tune of EUR 2500 a
pop.
Seriously: If you find they do not follow through with the nullification, I am
certain many German citizens would support some form of petition to the patent
and trademark office. Looks like there's a fakebook group up and running
already. What's next on the to-be-trademarked list? Installfest? Debconf? Summer
of Code? I'll ask a few fellow compatriots still residing there...
-- mschmitz
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| Authored by: IANALitj on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 10:27 PM EDT |
I was working on mainframes at the time, but the term "word mark" was
an important one in computer usage a half century ago.
The wikipedia article on the IBM 1401 quotes the assertion "In all, by the
mid-1960s nearly half of all computer systems in the world were 1401-type
systems."
One of the characteristics of the 1401 architecture was that it had 8 bits for
every memory location, including a parity bit. One of these bits was called the
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 01:24 PM EDT |
Who cares. Hackathons are abusive ploys, ie. let's reduce the once venerable
profession of engineering to a sporting event where the winners are rarely
adequately compensated and the losers certainly not adequately compensated...
ignoring all semblance of good manufacturing practice in the meantime.
How about instead of whining about a trivial and idiotic IP issue you worry
about a legitimate labor issue?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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