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Submission + - ITC Deals Blow to Patent Trolls (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by hakey
hakey writes: The ITC said today Garmin isn’t violating Pioneer’s patent rights because Pioneer didn’t fulfill legal requirements of having a domestic industry for the underlying technology. Google, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco Systems supported Garmin by calling on a limit to ITC cases in which the patent owner doesn’t make a product. A broad interpretation of licensing as an industry “rewards financial speculation and mere patent ownership over the kind of jobs the statute was meant to protect and upon which this country’s future will depend,” the three technology companies said in a May 24 filing with the agency.

Comment Re:1000 seconds (Score 1) 206

by hakey (#36345910) Attached to: CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes
I can imagine in the interview the scientists trying to explain the concept of orders of magnitude. Scientist: "You see it doesn't matter if was exactly 15 or 16 minutes, the point is we can now achieve confinement for an order of magnitude of a thousand seconds." Reporter thinking to himself while writing the story: "so it's 1000 seconds, lets see thats exactly 16 minutes and 40 seconds. Now what was they where trying to explain to me about powers of 10, I better put that in to look smart, oh yeah, the more relevant number for physicists, who often deal in powers of 10, is 1,000 seconds."

Comment Re:I thought this was known? (Score 2) 48

by hakey (#36113198) Attached to: Jupiter's Moon Io Has a Volcanic Sub-Surface
From the article: "Scientists are excited we finally understand where Io's magma is coming from and have an explanation for some of the mysterious signatures we saw in some of the Galileo's magnetic field data," Krishan Khurana, lead author of the study and former co-investigator on Galileo's magnetometer team at UCLA, said.

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