Oh I completely agree with what was said in the article. However, it's not the fault of East Texans. If not here, it would be in one of the thousands of other areas in the country where people are not as educated or interested in technology. Ranchers and farmers don't give a rat's ass about some idea of bullshit patents or nebulous (to them) concepts of code ownership or intellectual property rights.
They just want the trial to end so they can go back to work.
I think they should make the patent office partially responsible for times like this. If you think technology patents are bad, so some reading on stuff like genetics or biotechnology. Or hell, just go read Next by Crichton.
I've get plenty of actual case law to read without having to resort to Crichton's quasi-legal melodrama. :P
The issue with the Eastern District of Texas is that it's not replicated in other parts of the country. It's sort of the perfect storm of uneducated juries, xenophobia, and judges with experience handling patent cases. That doesn't exist anywhere else in the country right now.
So, assuming the purpose for this is to bowl over an easy target then gun for the big fish wouldn't it make sense for bigger MMO companies like Blizzard to financially back NCSoft's defence, provide 'independent' expert witnesses from their own stables etc.?
At least having representatives from American companies also taking the witness box to say 'this is bullshit and will fuck us over as much as Korea' would help with the issue of the jury swinging in favour of US companies over foreign.
I just took out a patent for sarcasm, hyperbole, and misguided angst. Most of the PA formers should be receiving court summons from my lawyer in the next few days.
So, assuming the purpose for this is to bowl over an easy target then gun for the big fish wouldn't it make sense for bigger MMO companies like Blizzard to financially back NCSoft's defence, provide 'independent' expert witnesses from their own stables etc.?
At least having representatives from American companies also taking the witness box to say 'this is bullshit and will fuck us over as much as Korea' would help with the issue of the jury swinging in favour of US companies over foreign.
Would Blizz's fleet of lawyers aggro like a pack of Murlocs?
I just took out a patent for sarcasm, hyperbole, and misguided angst. Most of the PA formers should be receiving court summons from my lawyer in the next few days.
So, assuming the purpose for this is to bowl over an easy target then gun for the big fish wouldn't it make sense for bigger MMO companies like Blizzard to financially back NCSoft's defence, provide 'independent' expert witnesses from their own stables etc.?
At least having representatives from American companies also taking the witness box to say 'this is bullshit and will fuck us over as much as Korea' would help with the issue of the jury swinging in favour of US companies over foreign.
Would Blizz's fleet of lawyers aggro like a pack of Murlocs?
Worlds.com Lawyer: "Your Honor, we would like to begin by-"
I just took out a patent for sarcasm, hyperbole, and misguided angst. Most of the PA formers should be receiving court summons from my lawyer in the next few days.
So, assuming the purpose for this is to bowl over an easy target then gun for the big fish wouldn't it make sense for bigger MMO companies like Blizzard to financially back NCSoft's defence, provide 'independent' expert witnesses from their own stables etc.?
At least having representatives from American companies also taking the witness box to say 'this is bullshit and will fuck us over as much as Korea' would help with the issue of the jury swinging in favour of US companies over foreign.
Would Blizz's fleet of lawyers aggro like a pack of Murlocs?
Worlds.com Lawyer: "Your Honor, we would like to begin by-"
I just took out a patent for sarcasm, hyperbole, and misguided angst. Most of the PA formers should be receiving court summons from my lawyer in the next few days.
So, assuming the purpose for this is to bowl over an easy target then gun for the big fish wouldn't it make sense for bigger MMO companies like Blizzard to financially back NCSoft's defence, provide 'independent' expert witnesses from their own stables etc.?
At least having representatives from American companies also taking the witness box to say 'this is bullshit and will fuck us over as much as Korea' would help with the issue of the jury swinging in favour of US companies over foreign.
Would Blizz's fleet of lawyers aggro like a pack of Murlocs?
Worlds.com Lawyer: "Your Honor, we would like to begin by-"
Fuck there's 8 more coming from the hallway, what the fuck, FUCK.
At least we still have chicken.
But pertaining to preliminary injunctions, is the functional operation of a server, (i.e. one running the game world,) considered a viable target? It isn't neccesarily manufactured or updated, (at least not constantly, and can usually function without updates,) or is its overall status as a product enough to have the servers shut down by a P.I.?
What a fucking joke. Shit like this gets me fired up.
Keep it together, Monsty. You can do this!
Drink more pop!
(But seriously, how the fuck can you patent a double linked list??)
Yeah, and it looks like lots of other common data structures have been patented, too.
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Has anything new come of this?
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edited January 2009
The grinding wheel of the judicial system is slow. Hell, look how long it took for the courts to tell SCOG they were full of shit, and they are appealing.
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The thing to remember is that the U.S. Patent office became the model that all other patent offices around the world followed.
Insofar in that most of the rest of the industrialized world has some sort of centralized patent administration? Yes.
The singular difference of the European Patent Office (for example) using a compulsory licensing scheme cuts down on this sort of idiocy by orders of magnitude. The EPO also uses an absolute novelty standard (where as the US, for all its inane babble about rewarding the inventor, is effectively a system that rewards whoever files the damned patent first) meaning that it's harder to get a patent in the EPO, there are fewer patents issued, and there's less to litigate. It also takes the wind out of the sails of the litigation, as the stakes aren't so high.
I don't profess to be intimately familiar with the EPO's intricacies, but it is fundamentally a more sound and reasonable system than what we have in the US.
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Can I patent the concept of language? Cause I totally call dibs!
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I just filed a patent on written communication. You guys are fucked.
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I've get plenty of actual case law to read without having to resort to Crichton's quasi-legal melodrama. :P
The issue with the Eastern District of Texas is that it's not replicated in other parts of the country. It's sort of the perfect storm of uneducated juries, xenophobia, and judges with experience handling patent cases. That doesn't exist anywhere else in the country right now.
At least having representatives from American companies also taking the witness box to say 'this is bullshit and will fuck us over as much as Korea' would help with the issue of the jury swinging in favour of US companies over foreign.
Would Blizz's fleet of lawyers aggro like a pack of Murlocs?
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Worlds.com Lawyer: "Your Honor, we would like to begin by-"
Blizzard Lawyer: "mrr-LRRRGHHRHRHRRRLLLRRRGGHLLLLL!!!!! *chomp*"
Worlds.com Lawyer: "GYAAAAAAA!!!!"
If I could draw I'd have to illustrate that in some sort of comic.
Law be crazy, man!
Can you see it? It looks so beautiful in my mind.
At least we still have chicken.
But pertaining to preliminary injunctions, is the functional operation of a server, (i.e. one running the game world,) considered a viable target? It isn't neccesarily manufactured or updated, (at least not constantly, and can usually function without updates,) or is its overall status as a product enough to have the servers shut down by a P.I.?
Pharaohs need to L2P.
Yeah, and it looks like lots of other common data structures have been patented, too.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
More like in 4 months when discovery finishes.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
I never asked for this!
But it'd be funny.
"WE'RE SUING YOU!"
"*snaps fingers. Team of lawyers appears*"
"Fffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Oh god.
A bunch of murlocs, wearing tiny suits, their little eyes glaring off in two different directions.
Oh man.
I'd actually pay money to see that. Of course, I'd probably die about 30 minutes later, after I suffocate to death from laughing so hard.
Insofar in that most of the rest of the industrialized world has some sort of centralized patent administration? Yes.
The singular difference of the European Patent Office (for example) using a compulsory licensing scheme cuts down on this sort of idiocy by orders of magnitude. The EPO also uses an absolute novelty standard (where as the US, for all its inane babble about rewarding the inventor, is effectively a system that rewards whoever files the damned patent first) meaning that it's harder to get a patent in the EPO, there are fewer patents issued, and there's less to litigate. It also takes the wind out of the sails of the litigation, as the stakes aren't so high.
I don't profess to be intimately familiar with the EPO's intricacies, but it is fundamentally a more sound and reasonable system than what we have in the US.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
OH SNAP!
It was already mentioned, but their patent might not have been approved yet!