It's the law, stupid. Netflix owns the DVDs it buys (first sale doctrine) and can rent them if it feels like it. Except where the publisher gives them a better deal to not own the DVDs, but then they can obviously rent them out too.

One doesn't "retrain" white collar workers. Tuition is generally reimbursed for a course or two per semester and then they adapt or you hire someone with the needed skill set. Usually a combination of both.

H1B has nothing to do with it.

That's my point. The whoosh you heard may have been it sailing over your head. The color yellow on any kind of electrical equipment should not have been a registrable mark.

The PTO likely erred in granting registration. A decent lawyer can gently make that point to fluke's counsel while agreeing to change the colors on future product orders in exchange for fluke advising the govees that they've examined the situation and are satisfied that there is no infringement.

Which should promptly end the impound. For a lot less money than $30k.

OLPC's goal was to induce the creation of computers affordable in the third-world and usable in an environment where basic utilities are not available. At the time, a bottom-end new computer cost around $500.

Today we have a tablet and netbook industry which churns out the cheap components that such computers need at a high economy of scale. Micro Center has a bottom-end android tablet on sale for $50.

Things may not have worked out as OLPC expected or in a way that left OLPC with any importance as an organization, but their goal was surely achieved.

If they haven't talked to an intellectual property lawyer yet, they should do so immediately. Safety yellow on an electrical testing device is incredibly generic.

Why not dispute the mark with the PTO? I mean seriously, safety yellow on a piece of electrical equipment? It doesn't get much more generic than that.

This judge picked a particularly sloppily written search warrant application and then *way overreached* in response.

When the cops get a search warrant for your house for a particular document, they're allowed to search your file cabinet for that document. This judge proposes that for email, they must hire a third party to search the email account for that document.

You don't "connect" to the overwhelming majority of satellites. They're described as "bent pipes." They receive signals on one frequency on one antenna and transmit them on another frequency on another antenna. Most don't even convert to a digital signal; it's a pure analog copy. You "connect" to the ground station on the other side.

My point was: I agree with your point.

Also: except for the brief brain-fart, the AC's comment about failing to understand the interstate commerce clause was correct. A company's headquarters location has no bearing on whether a particular transaction is interstate commerce and thus immune to state oversight. Moreover, similar topics come up in this forum often enough to justify a certain level of disgust with folks who still can't spot the difference. Applying the pejorative "moron" to mosb1000 was not entirely without foundation.

Well, no, it isn't. Iridium data channels don't have the capacity for that. RUDICS data streams take a long time to establish (on the order of a minute), move only a couple hundred bytes per second and drop frequently under good conditions. SBD shots are more likely to work, but you can only deliver a 2000 byte packet once every minute or two.

I don't know which one the advertiser's device uses but either way it's only enough for periodic snapshots of the data not a continuous send.

Do you have Onstar service for your car? Same difference. Most people choose not to buy it. The device is only present in new vehicles because Onstar pays manufacturers to include it.

No. That downloaded copy would be somebody else's copy not yours. If you still had a copy of the rip you made from *your* CD, your ownership of a copy would still cover that.

I'm pretty sure he meant to say "the interstate" rather than "in their state." What on earth did you think he meant to say?