Perhaps the topic of Patent Trolls should be avoided.
Be that as it may...... I resent the *fact* that Bob Blick makes disparagin=
g remarks about me from time to time.  I would appreciate it if he would st=
ick to administering.
Glass houses and all that.......
Gus S. Calabrese .... a very eclectic individual

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> On Jun 3, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Al Shinn wrote:
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> A very friendly disagreement:
> I for one welcome and am very interested in the topic of patents. I find=
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> this thread not very off topic at all, in fact almost [EE] or perhaps=20
> [TECK] but not quite. Many of us here make a living in the field of=20
> technology, patents can be an important part of that. Any pertinent info=
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> Further, Bob's post is confusing to me since the ROE clearly state(d?)=20
> that off topic posts are welcome. Or have those rules changed?
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> BUT, I do appreciate the hard work that our admins. do, cheers to you all=
..
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> Some digging brings me to:
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist :
> "[OT] This label is for posts that are completely off the topic of=20
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> religious/metaphysical, sex, hate, or political messages.
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> I could almost see labeling this thread as political (since the USO is a=
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> government institution) but not really. besides, that was not the complai=
nt.
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> Looking forward,
> Al Shinn
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> Thanks Bob! I'm sorry if the
>> post appeared to be too far off topic. I thought the radio program would
>> be of interest to engineers on the list since they are often asked by
>> their employers to patent stuff. The program has an interview with a
>> software engineer who holds patents that he believes are gobley goop,
>> but the company attorneys wrote them up. I posted this to two lists. One
>> is in an industry where a number of users are being sued for patents on
>> very widely used technology. Some of those patents have been thrown out
>> on re-examination. The other list (piclist) is a list of engineers, so I
>> thought it would be of interest. Again, thanks for the comment. I'll try
>> to stay more pic related. Harold
>>>> I'm posting as an admin.
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>>>> This thread started poorly. One could almost say the original post -wa=
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>>>> trolling. And it's going even further downhill.
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>>>> I could complain and whine about plenty of things that I find importan=
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>>>> but I don't choose to do it on the Piclist.
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>>>> Use the Piclist for what it is meant for - PICs and engineering.
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>>>> Thanks,
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>>>> Bob
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