So one of the patents in question is about:
"Data Processing System Using Substantially Unique Identifiers to Identify Data Items, Whereby Data Items Have the Same Identifiers"
So they have a patent on a primary key?
Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
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Re: Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
#162So one of the patents in question is about:
"Data Processing System Using Substantially Unique Identifiers to Identify Data Items, Whereby Data Items Have the Same Identifiers"
So they have a patent on a primary key?
Re: Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
#16311. Venue is proper in the Eastern District of Texas under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1391 and1400(b). PersonalWeb is a limited liability company incorporated in Smith County, Texaswith its principal place of business in Tyler, Texas. A substantial part of the events giving riseto the asserted claims occurred in this judicial district, Defendant transact business in this judicial district, and the patents were infringed in this ju…
Sounds like a great idea to me. Political activism that may actually work! But is it legal? I know it is not legal to refuse serving based on e.g. skin color, race or gender. And it's legal for a US company to refuse business with Canadians. But is it legal for e.g. a California company to refuse to treat East Texas, or the whole of Texas, equal to North Carolina?
Race is a protected class, as is gender. I don't believe Texanism (Texanity?) is. :-)
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would not be surprised if the patent office itself used this method for filing patent information in various DBs.
Every filesystem in the world probably uses this method. The identity function (i.e. storing an item under its own name) seems to be a special case.
You could argue that most book titles fall under this as well, at least conceptually. And the Dewey decimal system.
In fact, before the growth of the internet, Identifying and Requesting Data in Network Using Identifiers Which Are Based On Contents of Data would sound almost exactly like a long winded academic description of finding a book through the public library inter-lending network.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Noonespecial is talking about private actors, not the state. This is essentially a call for a boycott, and I can't see this as a reflection on noonespecial's views on net neutrality one way or the other.
The whole point of net neutrality is preventing private actors from manipulating the flow of information.
Flow is not the same as supply. Noonespecial is talking about blocking things at source not by an intermediary.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would not be surprised if the patent office itself used this method for filing patent information in various DBs.
Every filesystem in the world probably uses this method. The identity function (i.e. storing an item under its own name) seems to be a special case.
Wait. This isn't true. Most filesystems don't have an algorithmic identifier for the data being stored. They do often have checksums, but that's different.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like a great idea to me. Political activism that may actually work! But is it legal? I know it is not legal to refuse serving based on e.g. skin color, race or gender. And it's legal for a US company to refuse business with Canadians. But is it legal for e.g. a California company to refuse to treat East Texas, or the whole of Texas, equal to North Carolina?
Race is a protected class, as is gender. I don't believe Texanism (Texanity?) is. :-) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
Given that the Republic of Texas voluntarily joined the United States, there might be an interesting argument regarding national origin (which is a protected class). There are at least a few diplomatic conventions that stem from this, such as flying the Texas flag at the same height as the US flag, instead of lower.
Re: Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
#16811. Venue is proper in the Eastern District of Texas under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1391 and1400(b). PersonalWeb is a limited liability company incorporated in Smith County, Texaswith its principal place of business in Tyler, Texas. A substantial part of the events giving riseto the asserted claims occurred in this judicial district, Defendant transact business in this judicial district, and the patents were infringed in this ju…
Sounds like a great idea to me. Political activism that may actually work! But is it legal? I know it is not legal to refuse serving based on e.g. skin color, race or gender. And it's legal for a US company to refuse business with Canadians. But is it legal for e.g. a California company to refuse to treat East Texas, or the whole of Texas, equal to North Carolina?
I was thinking that it could be covered by the commerce clause. But no, that prevents California as a state passing laws forbidding companies from doing business with Texas.
I don't think there are any federal laws demanding equal treatment of different polities by private (rather than state) actors.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of these arguments skip the obvious fact that the FDA could provide its own form of commercial exclusivity without needing patents at all. You can't sell medication without FDA approval. Right now patents don't factor in to it, but if patents were eliminated the FDA could implement a similar scheme exclusively for medication.
I also suspect that the high cost of FDA approval is not treated as a negative by many in the medical industry, as it provides a nice high barrier to entry which helps reduce competition. This seems to be especially true of some of the producers of medical devices.
While this is a valid issue, it does demonstrate how strict a gate-keeper the FDA is. You can't sell anything with a purely medical purpose to anyone without the right certifications. I'm sure there's a lock on something as simple as tongue-depressors that can't be broken because getting your product certified is non-trivial. There isn't even an invention involved here.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole point of net neutrality is preventing private actors from manipulating the flow of information.
Flow is not the same as supply. Noonespecial is talking about blocking things at source not by an intermediary.
Flow is not the same as supply
Its like a synthetic variation, not a logically novel form of argument. The flow is cutoff when the supply is witheld. The supply is withheld when the flow is cutoff. Etc.