staying in school is the stupidest idea ever.
Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
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#162staying in school is the stupidest idea ever. No wonder Google wanted to screw you over
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely think of him as a "good/nice guy" which he may or may not have been.
Yea, I realized that might be the case after posting. But, it’s an ambiguous statement in context.
Thomas Edison is notorious for doing this, so it isn’t that ambiguous.
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#164Software patents need to be banned. In the interim, employee incentives (ego, bonuses) to being listed as an "inventor" while BigCompany remains the "assignee" could be ameliorated with a "Software Patent Hall of Shame" (SPHS), which would list software engineers complicit in software patents. This would disincentivize software engineers from stealing ideas, from allowing their work to be patented, or from signing ag…
Is this even a software patent?
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#165She worded that way too diplomatically. What google did here is one of the evilest things you can do. They are taking open research and trying to close it off. Research that they didn't even contribute to! Research that they didn't need patent rights for because it's already free for them to use. But they can't allow anyone after them to have the same privilege can they?
How many patents the group or each employee gets awarded per year is probably one of their employee metrics (as in one application per X months). It's not surprising that someone would grab at low hanging fruit or develop unethical methods like that to fulfill performance requirements. It's probably not the first time the group did that.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone needs to add this incident to her Wikipedia page.
Not saying it's not Wikipedia material, but perhaps a site nice and searchable site of misdeeds so we won't forget? Does something like this already exist?
On one hand I’ve long thought this would be a good thing to have after seeing how often people can prey on others repeatedly but on the other I’ve realized that some people can and do change. The fuzziness of our memories over time let’s us heal and gives others a second chance. I’ve also learned over the years that things that are designed to catch or punish bad actors will instead be used by the very people they’re meant to punish to go after their enemies. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is (one of the reasons) why you sign NDAs before discussing your technology.
A mutual NDA was signed as seen here https://ryanspahn.com/motorola-google-Expired-NDA2013.pdf . We started SpeakerBlast in March 2013 & were meeting with Google in April 2013. We filed a provisional before the meeting & have a patent in the patent office.
An NDA is only as good as the lawyers backing them up.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
People don't get to the top by being ethical. They get to the top of the org chart by playing politics. Many of them are practically psychopaths.
The good news is that very few people are at the top. Most are in the middle, and it's entirely possible to be ethical and in a good middling position.
How can you justify your work in the middle as ethical, if it directly supports a rotten apple at the top? Your life's work turned into a support system for a beast, wonderful!
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#169Regina Dugan is a former head of DARPA as well as ATAP. She has an impressive resume. Why would she do something like this? For a not particularly important patent, LED popup books? It seems bizarre. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan
>> She has an impressive resume. >> Why would she do something like $badthing? Am I the only one wondering why anyone would think a person's resume should be any kind of predictor of good or bad behaviour?
I assume that statement has less to do with good behavior and more to do with doing something that can bite you in the ass when you have so much to lose.
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#170Reminds me of this cartoon: https://dilbert.com/strip/2006-05-06
[cartoon about interviewing an engineer to solve a product design problem]