It is curious to find what goes through the minds of people who strive to actually own knowledge (or logic, or mathematics) such as algorithms and business methods. Mind the use of the word "own", as opposed to "master". Watch the video.
WIPO still operates at its own peril [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] and its Big Corporate-minded biases endanger science and technology. It's about time everyone realised this and demanded change. Just watch this patent trolls galore from November 2007 alone.
Back to comparing the top 7 districts for patent infringement. We'll start with the numbers from November.
How about LG's Troll Army, which has become something to rave about? When patent harassment becomes "cool", then it ought to be clear that a system claiming to spur innovation has gone too far. ⬆
"The key change in this year’s Actuarial Study, due to cascading the new “risk appetite” from the financial study, is a significant increase of the total pension contribution rate of 5.7 percentage points, up to a total of 37.8%. This is driven by an unprecedented decrease in the discount rate of 105 bps down to 2.2%."
Some publicly available information suggests that even for each paid subscriber for plagiarism (LLM 'coding') GitHub Copilot still loses more money than it makes
"Mr Neidle said after repelling Mr Zahawi he was contacted by bloggers and tweeters who had received similar threats. They deleted their work “and in most cases never commented publicly on anything again”."
