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   They're not incompatible

   

   ChurchHatesTucker (profile), Sep 9th, 2009 @ 10:24am

   
   

   The REAL action is in Trademark Infringement. That's where you can stop people from even talking about you. At least, people with fewer lawyers and/or resources.

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   No Taco for you

   

   AW, Sep 9th, 2009 @ 10:33am

   
   

   ChurchHatesTucker - Yeah, but why won't Glenn Beck deny he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
   
   Everyone else - I love Dilbert. I am glad so many other readers do too.

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   Re: They're not incompatible

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 9th, 2009 @ 10:52am

   
   

   Especially when one considers that section 230 immunities don't extend to service providers, lots of money for trolls.

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   Re: No Taco for you

   

   Kilgore Trout, Sep 9th, 2009 @ 11:18am

   
   

   LOLWUT?

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   Re: Re: No Taco for you

   

   Dark Helmet (profile), Sep 9th, 2009 @ 11:41am

   
   

   Did I miss some kind of Glenn Beck rapist discussion while I was battling Swine Flu?

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   Re: Re: Re: No Taco for you

   

   Shawn (profile), Sep 9th, 2009 @ 11:48am

   
   

   http://techdirt.com/articles/20090908/0321546127.shtml

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   Re: Re: Re: No Taco for you

   

   ChurchHatesTucker (profile), Sep 9th, 2009 @ 12:00pm

   
   

   "Did I miss some kind of Glenn Beck rapist discussion while I was battling Swine Flu?"
   
   So you also cannot deny Beck's rape and murder of a young girl in 1990?
   
   Interesting...

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   I doubt Adams was confused

   

   Avatar28 (profile), Sep 9th, 2009 @ 1:00pm

   
   

   Adams was an engineer, I really doubt he was confused about the difference. Notice how Dilbert said they should get out of their current business. CHW has it right, Trademark seems to be what everybody is trying to ab-use these days.

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   Dilbert

   

   NullOp, Sep 9th, 2009 @ 1:20pm

   
   

   Like I've said so often before, Dilbert is a documentary not a comic strip.

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    patents vs. trademarks

    

    spaceman spiff, Sep 9th, 2009 @ 2:03pm

    
    

    I think this was a deliberate "mistake". How else could Dilbert take down both patent and trademark trolls in only 3 panels? :-)

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    Reasonable reverse royalty

    

    Anonymous Coward, Sep 9th, 2009 @ 2:25pm

    
    

    What about a reverse royalty for busting an overbroad patent. You could recover legal fees in reverse infringement by people who would have infringed by are now free and clear.

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    To be fair?

    

    lux (profile), Sep 9th, 2009 @ 3:43pm

    
    

    "Though, to be fair, Adams seems to confuse patents and trademarks in the second panel (editors?). Still, nice to see Dilbert taking on such an issue."
    
    It's a cartoon?

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    Re: patents vs. trademarks

    

    athe (profile), Sep 9th, 2009 @ 6:15pm

    
    

    Agreed. This was my thinking too when I first saw the strip.

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    Re: I doubt Adams was confused

    

    anon, Sep 9th, 2009 @ 9:49pm

    
    

    Adams was not (and is not) an engineer. He majored in economics and got an MBA.

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    Re: Re: Re: No Taco for you

    

    Enrico Suarve, Sep 10th, 2009 @ 2:41am

    
    

    Hang on, people who are accusing Glenn Beck of raping a young black girl in 1990 are now suddenly contracting swine flu?
    
    Are there any lengths he won't go to in order to cover up the fact that he still won't deny not having raped a woman?
    
    Sick bastard (not you, Glenn). I mean that Glenn is sick obviously for not denying that he is giving out swine flu to people exposing his covering up his not denying raping a girl not you for having it, although you obviously are or were sick, but in a different way, unless Glenn also has swine flu after exposing himself in which case you're both sick in the same way...partially
    
    Some people say that Glenn is not doing enough to protect the children, and now I understand why. It must be because he's too busy raping them or infecting those kids who spot that he hasn't said that he isn't in fact Glenn Beck an alleged child rapist but someone else instead
    
    I can't believe this is allowed to go on - I'm shocked, this is too much...[sobs]...won't somebody think of the anchors? No? [blows nose]...this isn't the America I love...Oh yeah I'm English, anyway...[cries]...devastated

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    seems familier

    

    ethorad, Sep 10th, 2009 @ 5:02am

    
    

    The only winning move is not to play?

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    Anonymous Coward, Sep 19th, 2009 @ 6:44pm

    
    

    It makes sense to me. Making products is risky: what if patent reform fails? Patent litigation is risky: what if patent reform succeeds? OTOH, trademark litigation is on a steady upward curve.

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