'Axiso & Fevil'
It must have been a hogmanay idea or a new year’s resolution when the two cuddly Steiff chimps got their domain, axiso-fevil.com … they seem to deal in anything that’s newsworthy or needs commenting on … some of the stuff formerly classified under Rants & Raves belongs to that category, too.
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.
“A CONTROVERSIAL bid by Aberdeen City Council to become the first local authority in Scotland to outlaw begging from its streets, has been rejected by the Scottish Executive.” (Scotsman)
The initiator of the bid, a certain Mr. Greig (LibDem … reflect on that abbreviation!), sees one of the main reasons for beggars to frequent Aberdeen City Centre at night time being that “people who are drunk come out of the pubs and clubs and feel very generous to humanity in general” (so he told the Scotsman). Any regular punter would, however, welcome this development, since traditionally generosity to humanity in Aberdeen used to express itself in attacks of the more violent kind on innocent passers-by.
(Via The Scotsman – Scotland – Aberdeen, full article here.)
