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Inside: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/06/tha…

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Today 6/6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for @rightscon:

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Wed 7/6, I'm keynoting @republica in #Berlin:

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Thu 8/6, I'm at @otherlandberlin Books with my novel *Red Team Blues*:

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A business model for bankrupting the oil companies: Incentives matter (and that matters).



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In theory, patents are for novel, nonobvious inventions. But as computers ate our society, grifters began to receive patents for "doing something we've done for centuries...with a computer." "With a computer": three words with the power to cloud patent examiners' minds.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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#PatentTrolls - who secure "with a computer" patents and then extract ransoms from people doing normal things on threat of a lawsuit - are an underappreciated form of "#TechExceptionalism."

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