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This is true.

Just conjecture here, but my guess is that "Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology" means that Tesla is going to req…

I see general concept and specific implementation as being on a spectrum. If an invention is sufficiently novel/nonobvious, I believe the inventor is entitled to a patent on the ge…

I posted a similar comment in the author's post, but I figure I'll post it here too in case anyone finds it useful. ---- I sympathize with the author's belief that many software pa…

Even if the inventor refuses to sign the declaration, if they have an obligation to assign and are truly an inventor, their name will appear on the face of the patent. There are pr…

That's one of the issues though. Which patents are the "truly new" ones and which are the "trivial ones"? It seems like many software patents seem obvious in hindsight, a few years…

That's not the right approach, because usually an employee has an obligation to assign the invention to their employer. Frequently it's not really up to the inventor whether or not…

Also, a lot of times it is difficult to avoid hindsight bias. It may arguably seem obvious now, in 2013, but it is hard to say what would have been obvious in 2004. Nonobviousness …

No, just all the elements of any one of the claims.

This is probably true, but remember that the single inventor has the option of publishing the invention rather than filing a patent application. The publication will then become pr…

This may have been true many years ago, but today the term of a patent in the US is (with some exceptions) 20 years from filing. (See, http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s27…

Thanks for the feedback. I recognize that for many (all?) startups, legal issues are some of the last things that they want to have to deal with. We would make an effort to keep th…

Thanks for the feedback! Those are great ideas. And you're right, I should have noted in the OP that the focus would be on U.S. law. However, patent law and patent issues frequentl…

The HN community seems to be anti-patent (especially software patents) in general, however knowledge is power. Would you be interested in a free course on patents (and intellectual…

Additional fee shifting information from a recent federal circuit ruling here: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2012/10/should-we-move-towar...

I don't think this is true in general. Most patents I have read have had very detailed descriptions of the invention. In fact, it is to the patentee's benefit to be as detailed as …

1. You are right, but there are both potential copyright and potential trademark infringement claims in this suit. 2. The right of publicity is recognized in many states, and may b…

My wife has had two-factor authentication for at least a year, she only accesses gmail from her iPod touch and the browser on her laptop, and she had this happen to her about a mon…

The x200s does not have the keyboard in question, it has the classic thinkpad keyboard. The new keyboard is seen on some new lenovo models, most notably the thinkpad edge series.

I was ready to pay, and then it asked me to put my credit card information into a non-secure page. Looking at the page source, it looks like they use Stripe for payments. Will the …

You are right. The fourth paragraph does give some teeth to the agreement. However, the broad language of the second paragraph still gives the assignee a lot of wiggle room to argu…

Edit: Now I think I was wrong in this reply. I did not realize that paragraph 4 of the agreement gives the inventor the right to license the patent to another party to enforce the …

Edit: I was wrong here, see the reply below. No, the inventors don't have the right to license the patents to whomever is being sued. The twitter agreement gives all rights in the …

Clarification to my reply above: I meant to say "opening statements", and "closing arguments", not the other way around. This is what they are are actually called, I'm not sure why…