Comments on: Austin Goes Viral

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:55:05 +0000

In reply to Jack.

LMAO that’s pretty awesome.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/08/arkell-v-pressdram.html

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 22:46:27 +0000

Oh my goodness, the last frame of the video 😀

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Hello there, creator of the X-Plane user interface, I recognise you! 😉

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 22:43:19 +0000

You should refer Uniloc Ltd to the reply given in the case of Arkell v Pressdram.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:47:12 +0000

very good video – I wish the US would do something against these patent trolls and nonsense

By: Mercwerx

Mercwerx — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 02:14:15 +0000

In reply to Al. Ideas cannot be patented.

By: Chaps

Chaps — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 22:52:37 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. I agree , you would think Google would get involved

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:58:21 +0000

Being a developer too (suspect much of this blog prob is), the past few years I’ve become increasingly more disturbed by software Patents and Patent Litigation. Please correct me if I’m wrong but the way I understand, Patents were devised to allow a company to bring a product to market – perhaps like Henry Ford and the model T. In software the past few years… I’m seeing a big patent reform is needed. We have the Patent Trolls gaming the system, and *preventing* innovation. Instead of a device to foster innovation, we now have a weaponized money-wrench for the unscrupulous to use on people actually making things.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:46:16 +0000

In reply to Jared.

You’ll have to ask them – we can’t speak for Google.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:46:00 +0000

In reply to Steve.

There’s a deterrence factor here and it’s why both sides (LR and Uniloc) are incentivized to keep going after each other. Even if a troll thinks they can’t win, they need to show that they’re going to make it really expensive for their target no matter what, so that the _next_ target will see the scorched earth results and settle.

Similarly, we (LR) don’t want to be known as an easy target for trolling…since there is a virtually unlimited supply of silly software patents that can be read as ‘infringing’ with enough squinting, settling one case doesn’t make anything go away in the long term.

By: Austin Marti

Austin Marti — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:05:03 +0000

You’re welcome. I was the first person to post it to Reddit (flight sim subreddit). It has received tens of thousands if not a hundred thousand views from Reddit users.