Archive for March, 2010
“Disagreement on database for paedophile priests” … title in the most recent newsletter from swissinfo, the state sanctioned right wing publication for the Swiss abroad. “Two prominent Roman Catholic leaders in Switzerland appear sharply split on whether a central registry for paedophile priests is a good idea.” I would agree. A central database for paedophile priests is not needed, they find their victims without it. A central database of paedophile priests however …
Some while ago, Haliburton Energy Services, Houston, filed the following patent nr. 20080270152:
Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party (i.e. trolling)
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
Halliburton Troll Patent Filing
Hilarious, thanks to Jonathan Schwartz for digging it up.
The axis of the earth could have shifted 8 centimeters (or 2.7 milliarcseconds) which shortens the earch day by 1.26 microseconds. At least thats what the New Scientist has read on Bloomberg.com
The drunken painter / O pintor bêbado, by Paulo Coelho
