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Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by monochromatic »

_urga wrote: post #160

Software 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…

This isn’t a software patent.

And anyway, lots of methods get patented. If it’s new and nonobvious, why should the fact that it runs on a computer matter?

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by saalweachter »

armada651 wrote: post #182
jules wrote: post #134

If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...

So Computer Science is Engineering?

Some things in CS programs are engineering, other things are philosophy.

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by londons_explore »

CalChris wrote: post #34

Regina 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

Inside most companies there is pressure to get a few patents.

At promotion time, people will ask 'if you've been researching $thing for 3 months, why haven't you patented anything yet?'.

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Post by ouid »

armada651 wrote: post #182
jules wrote: post #134

If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...

So Computer Science is Engineering?

computer science is math

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by dao- »

ronilan wrote: post #15

Leah Buechley is the PhD advisor, Regina Dugan is Google ATAP, Joi Ito is Media Lab but... who is the first person speaker of the text? Am I missing something obvious or is it really omitted? Edit: possibly (probably?) https://twitter.com/qijie

There's a video embedded at the bottom, "Electronic Popables by Jie Qi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-6wMlaVTc

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by spiritcat »

ilaksh wrote: post #132

Its another example of why these types of patents shouldn't even be allowed. There are always a large number of people who don't get credit and/or won't get paid. And then all of the people who have very similar ideas or maybe the same one who get blocked from bringing products to market. If the patent system somehow made it so people like the author of this post would actually make lots of money, that would be diffe…

It's a jungle out there, one of the hard realizations of getting older. Can try not to play along, but then you'll just be more screwed. :/

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Post by jackgavigan »

IANAL, but 35 U.S. Code § 115 requires that "each individual who is the inventor or a joint inventor of a claimed invention in an application for patent shall execute an oath or declaration" that they believe "himself or herself to be the original inventor or an original joint inventor of a claimed invention in the application," and acknowledging "that any willful false statement made in such declaration or statement is punishable under section 1001 of title 18 by fine or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both."

So... How is this not literally a crime?

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Post by rovr138 »

monochromatic wrote: post #189
ilaksh wrote: post #132

Its another example of why these types of patents shouldn't even be allowed. There are always a large number of people who don't get credit and/or won't get paid. And then all of the people who have very similar ideas or maybe the same one who get blocked from bringing products to market. If the patent system somehow made it so people like the author of this post would actually make lots of money, that would be diffe…

Sounds like you signed something assigning your rights to the company.

If it was a job, it’s usually work for hire and not owned by him but by the company he was working for.

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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Post by pas »

ouid wrote: post #195
armada651 wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So Computer Science is Engineering?

computer science is math

engineering is math too, math is eating everything, oh noes!

but not really, that's software after all. engineering is applied math, so largely software modeling, whereas CS is theoretical work. abstract problems, pure solutions.

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