He doesn't actually "own" the patent anymore, he sold it and so it was litigated by the new owner.

Which is one of the problems with patents per TA, patents are not reviewed prior to rubber stamping them which leads to patent trolling and settling for those who cannot afford to defend themselves against bogus violations claims. Proper review coming in the door would reduce the problems.

I've had Bank of America freeze my account over a $.50 charge that seemed out of line (and was)

Patent reform

They spent an hour minus station break time to do it too. I had a lengthy discussion with some friends about copyright and patents and neither of them even knew it started in the Constitution. Most ordinary people don't know and don't care how much this costs them.

Only in the United States. It's backwards in many European countries.

Woosh! The question is on who?

My company uses thin clients exclusively in the office. The users have their same desktop no matter where they log in from. Dead workstations are simply replaced with a similar machine, no need to reconfigure and install software. And I can provide support remotely over 80% of the time. Our biggest problems are that software companies don't even think about providing support to this environment. The typical support script is, "we don't provide support for your setup" and convincing script support monkeys that we don't actually log into the server at the server (and doing so requires moving cables and monitors which a KVM would fix, but so far I don't have one...)

Probably not. You might think you are smart by doing this, but really $8k per year? How much have you lost in standard of living by hiding out in the Ozarks? Also: "tons of money". Any "tons of money" refund claims would likely be denied due to the fact that you have not timely filed your returns.
You know, I work with people who don't want the government in their lives. Funny thing is my main job is a government job. So the government is already in their lives. One guy takes time off so he can get his full amount of Social Security (read government money) and pension from his previous government job. You sound a lot like that guy.

The creators of South Park need your address so they can send their C&D letter for misappropriation of their Intelletcual Property, specifically the phrase, "he's coming right for us!". This phrase is only to be used by characters on the show to justify blowing the crap out of innocent rabbits and deer with fully automated firearms.

What is the difference between, the statuatory (we are talking about the written statute) right to exclusive distribution and the right to legally distribute? The fact that it's a statute means legal distribution. If it weren't in the statute there would be no legal right to distribute. There is no need to write the word "legal" into the statute. The word "legally" is explicit.

NYCL did not actually write the brief, it is not he who is making that argument. Also, as is argued in the brief, they do make an argument that since you cannot sue for damages to others (established by precedent) the RIAA cannot reasonably expect to collect for the damages done by others.

Google uses on Mobo 12v batteries.
Of course that would mean switching out all of the current servers.

They tunneled into the mountain, they did not place it on top of the roof.