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reply to OZO

Re: Patent Trolls going after end users now

In the vigilante imagination, perhaps. In reality, you'll be on the wrong side of a lawsuit.

In our modern times you're correct. There was a time when someone on the receiving end would feel shame and slink away. Those times are long gone.
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Don't feed trolls--it only makes them grow!

reply to Krisnatharok
Let me say it once again, the Patent Office needs to be blown up, then burned down, and have the ashes pissed on and then buried in a huge pile of sh*t and it would be so much a bonus if the building was full of a$$holes like this when it happens.

The patent office hasn't gone over to join the Dark Side, it is the Dark Side.

Blake
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Vendor: Author of Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool

reply to Krisnatharok
In related news

Patent Troll Brandywine Takes Aim at DSL
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Don't feed trolls--it only makes them grow!

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reply to Krisnatharok
These people are no better than the Westboro church ilk. Same shit, different MO.

reply to Krisnatharok
Laws are passed by your government.

Your government loves you more each day.

While you verbally go forth with torches and pitchforks,

your government acts with all means possible,

thanks to your generosity in giving them the financial means.

Work harder, longer, so your government can show it's love for you.

Perhaps a knock at your door some day.

What government love awaits you?
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"But the world is full of annoyances; if we killed all of our annoyances, there would be nobody left" - John McAfee

reply to Krisnatharok
Considering non security related threads keep coming across the security forums, I thought I might join in with this new tradition.

»mashable.com/2013/01/03/samsung-tizen/
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"I like to refer to myself as an Adult Film Efficienato." - Stuart Bondek

reply to Krisnatharok
Money attracts people. Once asked why he robbed banks, Willie "The Actor" Sutton said "(I) Go where the money is...and go there often." The mere threat of patent or copyright litigation can produce a prolific amount of money in our society. By finding ways of threatening lawsuits against small businesses and individuals, the perpetrators harvest multiple collections of smaller amounts of money that collectively add up to large amounts of money - all without much threat of meaningful legal counter-actions. Add in a minimal "legal" argument for the threats, and it's a "winning" idea much of the time. Is it any wonder that some folks create shell corporations simply to exploit it?

It's up to legislators, regulators, and judges to insist that the legal and regulatory systems be adjusted to prevent their predatory exploitation in this manner... and its up to the citizenry to vocally and repeatedly insist that they do, up to and including voting them out if they won't. In the meantime, people need to fight this in court every time it arises, building case-law precedents as they go. In the end, one will never completely stamp out such kinds of extortion... the perps will merely find some other means of going after money. But in life, you have to plug each and every hole in the dike as you find them...
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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” A. de Tocqueville

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reply to Krisnatharok
Wow, I'm gonna invent a new patent whereas the motion between the hammer and nail involving human interaction will allow the hammer to contact the nail and be driven into an object, the motion will be called "the swing" and will allow it to drive in the nail! Then I'll hire "The legal department" and they can hunt down all the home carpenters and others to collect moneys to license "the swing." anyone who uses a hammer will be required to pay me 5 cents royalty fee (I'm no greedy!) per swing in order to be able to use their hammers legally!

Yep. Just pay money to USPTO and they will be happy to register it for you. They don't care if it was used for thousand of years (you will have to hire your own layers to sue everyone around). USPTO needs your money now. Moreover, they will be happy to assist you in getting that patent, because the more other people get sued over patents like this, the better business will be for USPTO... Everyone will rush to them and buy their own patent and that's what they need.
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Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...

Yup. Basically it comes down to how much money you have to pay your lawyers.

My last professional job was with a large company although I worked at a small division.

The company got into patent infringement litigation with a competitor. The lawyers were being paid the equivalent of a Ferrari per month. My joke was that they'd filled the ashtray in the last one and therefore needed a new one.

I took a brief look at the technical claims of both sides and of course it was splitting hairs. But then lawyers do that a lot.
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Don't feed trolls--it only makes them grow!

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reply to dave

'The rules of the game' are what permitted the USPTO to award a patent in 2011 for the 'invention' of scanning a document on one system and having it automatically end up on another system.