US Patent trolls and brexit.
Just something different to add to the conversation that's not about forrins.
For afters have a piece about tomato marmalade.
www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/06/26/brexit-will-free-the-bendy-banana-incandescent-light-bulbs-and-tomato-marmalade/
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 1 Jul 2016, 20:12,
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Another view of all this bollocks:
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/24/time_to_refile_your_patents_and_trademarks_britain/
TL;DR:
"...companies will likely need to re-file their patents, trademarks and so on for them to be applicable within the UK. And, if they are a UK business, may need to re-file them in several European countries too."
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 1 Jul 2016, 22:27,
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Nice selective quoting there
Allow me to include the start of the sentence that puts the whole damn thing in perspective:
"In other words, if the bureaucrats can't reach agreement, companies will likely need to re-file their patents, trademarks and so on for them to be applicable within the UK. And, if they are a UK business, may need to re-file them in several European countries too."
There's been a lot of complaint about how the leave campaign has misrepresented and lied along the way, but doing it yourself is not helping.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 2 Jul 2016, 10:46,
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^this
The likelihood in any negotiations is things like this will not change, it's not really in anyone's interests to either. It's more likely a lot of current legislation will remain in place.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 2 Jul 2016, 11:27,
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A lot of these negative brexit outcome stories rely on 2 elements
A) British civil servants can't negotiate their way out of a wet paper bag.
B) The British public are expecting a bag outcome so badly that they don't question it when people take the piss.
I can't help with the first but I sure as hell won't accept the latter.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sat 2 Jul 2016, 21:27,
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