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

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Post by mikeleeorg »

paul7986 wrote: post #91

I met/had a similar experience with Google ATAP in 2013 (was Motorala ATAP then; Google recently bought them) though not for a job interview but to discuss working together to build our tech SpeakerBlast into the Moto X. They asked if we ever thought about selling our technology to them before the meeting and at the meeting they baited us for how our tech worked saying we'd like to work with you tell us how it works.…

Wasn't there a Silicon Valley (the HBO show) episode about something similar?

Ah, found the episode: Season 2 Episode 2, "Runaway Devaluation".

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

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Post by [deleted] »

zawerf wrote: post #35

She 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?

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

Retric wrote: post #450
DonHopkins wrote: post #441

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Electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant, says a lot more about you as a human being than the person you're trying to discredit by electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant. https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-torture... https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo

I don't disagree with the larger point but: "The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents Electrocuting an Elephant seems to have occurred a decade after the war of currents January 17, 1903.

So he had even less justification for electrocuting the elephant than trying to discredit Tesla, and he was even older and should have known better. That makes him an even worse human being in my book. Don't fuck with elephants!

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

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Post by starbeast »

thefringthing wrote: post #276
grecy wrote: post #243

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It would surely be "The Federal Republic of the Democratic United States of America" (I've been in Africa waaaaay too long :) )

"Pepsi Presents The Federal Republic of the Democratic United States of America"

"In association with Kraft Cheese. The only true cheese for Patriots!"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-10/american-...

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Post by ISV_Damocles »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #364
nobody22453 wrote: post #326

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The "-logy" comes from Greek which means science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-logy and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%...

What about Scientology which has both science and ology? Is it science science?

A common misconception! It's actually the science of the color cyan, but people kept mispronouncing "Cyantology". ;)

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

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Post by eftychis »

bspn wrote: post #108
paul7986 wrote: post #104

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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.

NDAs generally aren't worth the paper they're written on, but holy hell is that one a piece of work. The "residuals" concept basically gives them an open invite to copy anything they like so long as they didn't "intentionally memorize" it. Establishing intent is no easy task.

Yes, establishing intent to memorize is near impossible. You would have to have something like written records (e.g. emails) stating the intent.

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

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Post by spullara »

StudentStuff wrote: post #113
spullara wrote: post #46

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We did that at Bagcheck in 2010. It was super common. They may have taken your idea and ran with it but it wasn't a novel idea. Generally though, at scale, you run into problems with the affiliate programs and they cut you off.

Is affiliate stuffing adding any value? In most cases, it doesn't seem to drive more customers towards the business paying the affiliate commission.

It might. For example, it was one of the potential revenue sources for Bagcheck to keep it running such that people could post their product reviews to the service. Without that revenue it is possible it isn't feasible to run the service and that would decrease the number of reviews pointing to them which could reduce the number of sales they get.

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Post by travmatt »

gpm wrote: post #446
yread wrote: post #342

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It is. And since recently there is even case law and supreme court decision for this: https://www.patentdocs.org/2018/10/supreme-court-denies-cert...

Denying cert is the supreme court deciding not to hear the case, not a supreme court decision on the content of the case. That case appears to be civil, not criminal?

AIUI, the Supreme Court only takes cases that require their ruling to clarify interpretations of existing law or a lower correct incorrectly interpreted a law. Denying cert means their is no clarification to be made to existing law, so that in itself is an answer.

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Post by monochromatic »

nybble41 wrote: post #417
monochromatic wrote: post #391

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What stops other people from taking your tangible property other than the threat of state action? Sure, there are plenty of people who would refrain from stealing anyway just because it’s morally wrong. But there are enough people who don’t care that the whole idea of property rights becomes meaningless in practice without some way of enforcing them.

> What stops other people from taking your tangible property other than the threat of state action? Aside from morals, the threat of reciprocation , not by the state specifically but by the property owner who was harmed and anyone authorized to act on their behalf. Unlike actual property, IP isn't based on reciprocation. The penalties for infringement go way beyond simply losing similar forms of IP.

The penalty for stealing my TV might well include a bullet in the chest. I’m not sure what your point is.
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