Mchugho
@Mchugho@lemmy.world
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
They also test for obviousness mate.
If you think you can do better than a patent office examiner get on it because they’re extremely well paid.
Or maybe you could stop and draw a line under what you think is correct. Have you ever considered the possibility that actually you haven’t got the first clue how to properly analyse a patent because it’s a profession that requires extensive training and eye to detail?
I know on the internet it’s fun to pretend you actually know everything because everything is a Google search away but to even properly contextualise and separate good patents and bad patents isn’t a skill you can just pick up in 5 minutes to win an argument.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
You’ve not even began to do it properly but kudos for trying.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
You’ve not even referenced the claims of the patent, which I actually what is protected. It’s already extremely likely the examiner has flagged these up and more and passed it as allowable after a thorough novelty search. Lots of things are sort of like other invention but what they actually do lies outside of the claim scope.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
If it was something you already did prior to filing and you could prove it then their case would be extremely flimsy, but I do understand where you come from.
It really depends on jurisdiction, in the UK it’s not possible to even patent software. In Europe it I, but regulations are strict. The US patent law is a little bit wonky in this regard.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
So you don’t have an answer. Thought not.
I’ve protected people who have been attempted to be bullied by a larger company into ceasing production of a product. That’s literally my job.
Patent attorneys are a highly regulated profession which have to adhere to strict ethical standards and rigorous training in the law. I serve the interests of my clients. It doesn’t matter if you’re a large or small enterprise, the law is interpreted exactly the same throughout the process.
I would suggest reducing official fees to make it easier to purchase a patent, but that just reduces the quality of examination. In reality there is a balance to be struck between affordable patents and quality of patents which isn’t always struck correctly. I would advocate for government funded organisations that provide pro bono legal support for small enterprises as a way to make the system a little fairer. In the US they have a tiered system which makes patents cheaper for smaller companies, which is also something I think that should be adopted as standard.
Overall there is no simple solution. Life is complicated and messy and anybody who claims it isn’t is and there are simple solutions to very real, layered societal problems are snake oil salesmen with an agenda.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
They would only be able to get away with this if it had already been determined that they did indeed invent that thing. Many choose not to fight cease and desists when it would be in their best interest to counter claim.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
You can’t grant a patent for something that is already in the public domain at the time of filing, regardless of whether or not that thing is currently patent protected.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
Go on then. How do we replace the patent system whilst still acknowledging mental effort and research as being valued forms of work? Tell me all about it mate, I’m interested in your ideas as you’re so convinced it’s all a big con.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
I said they’re wonderful, not that they’re perfect. Clearly you need to work on your reading comprehension. The alternative is giant corporations stealing everybody’s ideas without anybody trying to stop them in any way.
Fuck off corpo.
Cringe. One day you’ll have to grow up and get a real job. Then you’ll look back at how embarrassingly assured you were of having the answers to everything when real life smacks you in the face and makes you realise you don’t know shit.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
Everyone in this thread is downvoting me because they are trying to out Marxist each other. I have never one claimed the patent system is perfect, but the people in this thread clearly don’t actually understand what is required to even receive a patent.
It’s typical, people know what systems they are against but never know what they are actually for. People say patents re unfair but never propose viable alternatives. The political analysis on Lemmy is frankly juvenile and utopic.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
Not worth it mate. People will find all kinds of post hoc ways to justify the fact that they want to use the tech that others have developed for free.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
Maybe so, but nearly everybody in this thread is irritatingly wrong on how intellectual property works as a concept and in practice.
It’s only when you read internet comments on something you actually specialise in that you realise the average commenter is woefully misinformed.
Regardless, if R* decide not to license the tech that is their prerogative as they created it.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 7 months ago:
Perhap you should try reading what I actually said instead of what you thought I said.
It literally is theft, theft is a well defined legal concept.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
It’s a daily curse.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
Novelty is assessed against all publicly disclosed prior art, not just the stuff that has been patented.
If I publish content on a webpage that could be used as prior art later on assessing novelty
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
I work in patents. If it wasn’t novel it wouldn’t be granted, believe me.
My experience with clients has led me to never trust lay people’s judgements on what is or is not novel.
Feel free to actually read the examiner’s comments in this patent application for an actually full understanding of he process
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
Open source software is different due to informed consent. When working on an OS project you are doing it out of altruism and/or fun, fully realising that you will never be compensated for this work. That doesn’t mean software devs should never be paid and work for free indefinitely on anything they do. Its still a skill that should be compensated for.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 7 months ago:
I’m calling bullshit on pirates spending more on media than non pirates as a percentage of consumed content. I guess the correlation makes sense if we assume the worst offenders are those who are consuming the most media in general.
Regardless it is theft. That’s not to make an ethical judgement but it is. You can make an equivalent stand by not purchasing the media, you don’t have to also illegally download something to make the same point or provide the balance as you put.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 7 months ago:
If the content creators want to create content without the might of a studio behind them giving financial backing they are free to independently publish their work on Kickstarter. Most aren’t happy to do so.
You want the studios to support your favourite content creators, but you don’t want to pay the studios. If everybody thought like this the whole system would collapse in a bad way.
How about instead of seeking out free ways to steal other people’s work you actually seek out the independent creators you are supposedly happy to pay for?
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 7 months ago:
Make sure nobody gets paid for anything so that nobody bothers making the content you enjoy??
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
It’s called working in the field and having a direct understanding of how patents protect people every single day.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
I wish people who base their entire knowledge of intellectual property on video games would just stop attempting to have opinions on things they don’t really understand.
If you think it’s fine to have a world in which people aren’t protected for their fruits of their labour, then by all means advocate against IP. I would rather live in a world in which people are actually paid for the ideas they come up with and don’t have to excessively keep corporate secrets.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
There is literally a 1:1 correlation between protecting IP and R&D and innovation. Start ups that patent their ideas are genuinely more successful. You’re naive if you think IP only helps protect large companie.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
As someone who is in the field of intellectual property, Lemmy’s views on IP boil down to “I attended Marxism 101 and want to pirate games”. Most here don’t have a clue how much time, effort and money is spent on innovation. They couldn’t even begin to fathom why protecting intellectual property helps people actually helps people get paid for their work, which is ironic as they are all for people being rewarded for their actual labour.
- Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" 7 months ago:
Patents genuinely are wonderful. The rockstar devs are going to be rewarded for their innovation.
- Comment on Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds 8 months ago:
We were never taught about the cold war or Vietnam at my school.
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- Comment on BBC News - King Charles III new coin designs revealed 8 months ago:
Can’t buy weed with card now can I?
- Comment on UK Covid deaths are on the rise again, but keep calm and keen on shopping. 8 months ago:
Of course others disagree. This issue has become massively politicised to the point of madness. I genuinely can’t believe people are still being so neurotic w.r.t. COVID online when in most real situations it’s the furthest thing from people’s minds.
There is no such thing scientifically as devolution. Things mutate and they evolve. In order for viruses to mutate they must replicate.
This whole comment exchange did alarm me immensely, to know there are people out there who are still pro restricting people’s freedoms for a pandemic that is in the past. The only reason I came back to I is because it’s still fairly high up in the United Kingdom Lemmy.
- Comment on UK Covid deaths are on the rise again, but keep calm and keen on shopping. 8 months ago:
Got to love how you just disengaged after I absolutely smashed your post. I still can’t believe you think social distancing is what caused the virus to evolve.