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Comment Re:This is not good. (Score 1) 205

First to file means that if have a working model and you talked to someone about it, they could get the patent.

Changing to first to file doesn't change the fact that only the inventor can file a patent. If you could show in court that your work was used to file the patent, you would win it back. Note that this is different from the case where someone else independently invents the same thing and files first.

Comment Re:Why federal, again? (Score 2) 1306

Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the ...

That seems to cover this

Comment Re:Evidence and Explanation (Score 1) 596

You are correct in your facts, but I disagree with your interpretations. The problem I have is not that MS got information on a link clicked, but that the got information on the related search term as well. This means MS was either capturing screen input or parsing the google url to extract the search term. Either way, google is arguing that Bing is using novel information created by google's well crafted (or in the case of the honeypot, intentionally malcrafted) algorithms, even if that information is filtered through users first.

Comment Re:Ahhh is widdy baby's feelings hurt? (Score 1) 260

But that is how the SCOTUS works. It rules on a CASE where there is confusion as to what the constitution and law say. When it rules that the constitution overrides the law, it technically only rules for that case. However, to keep the SCOTUS from being bothered repeatedly by the same issue, lower courts take that one case as a precedent for similar cases. The law is not "struck down" or removed, it is simply ignored by the courts as being overridden by the constitution. Creating firm rulings where the law is ambiguous or contradictory seems like "judicial Power" to me. Perhaps "judicial Power" meant something else in Jefferson's time?

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