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randomly123on Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment

hi. interesting stats. Could you please give some references for this? thanks.

randomly123on Ask HN: Best Low-Addictive Phone?

Android with a special low graphical theme is how i do it

randomly123on Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?

https://www.motherson.com/company/history

This company does decent M&A in the auto ancilliaries industry

randomly123on Battery recycling could be the next investor darling

agreed

randomly123on Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?

Find someone exotic/foreign who likes you? Maybe you're someone from abroad's ideal wife....

randomly123on Webcams aren't good enough

In the presence of in built webcams - peoples desire to pay for external webcams has reduced.

randomly123on Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help

I'm lost and confused. Don't know which way to go. Back to material science and batteries, or towards data and coding more. I used to make decisions always using the desired end points.

randomly123on Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?

Excercise, fasting, meditation, pranayama, anti-depressant medications, therapy

randomly123on Ask HN: I'm So Lonely

Okay man - email me on my email and I'll have a conversation with you. Sending you a warm embrace from India.

randomly123on I feel dumb(er) when typing, and smart(er) when writing

same here. I feel dumbest while browsing, okay when on airplane mode and typing on a Word Processor, and smartest when I write on paper.

randomly123on Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

Working in tiny companies rather than large one. Now large ones will say to me - you've messed around loads why should we take you?

randomly123on Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch

me too. IP issues - founders stealing engineers ideas, scanning their email for IP but not naming them as inventors in the patent filings.

randomly123on Wistron’s Apple factory in India committed serious violations of labour laws

Undoubtedly so. A lot of Taiwanese and Chinese manufacturers expanding into India need to know that Indian labour is inexpensive and talented but they are very conscious of their rights as workers. Labour is usually unionized and conscious of their rights.

randomly123on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

How do I find a job in the Bay Area in a company which is willing to sponsor visas, from India?

randomly123on Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries

These material science innovations takes tens of years to bring to the market - and they will take a lot of time again.

randomly123on Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white person on British currency

Democracy in India is a rare jewel in a large swathe of non-democratic states in Asia and around the world. That it exists at all, as a democracy, is due to the immense efforts of the British, The Indian National Congress, Mahatma Gandhi and his peers, Nehru and his peers. Indian citizens should be grateful to all of the above groups of people who have given them democracy as it is today. Without them, it would not come to pass.

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

I was on a consultant contract as a manager. Retribution - no - wrongfully obtaining a patent.

https://www.bananaip.com/ip-news-center/patent-opposition-sy...

Pre-grant opposition can be made on the grounds listed under section 25(1) (a) to (k) of the Patent Amendment Act, 2005:

    Wrongfully obtaining the invention
    anticipation by prior publication
    anticipation by prior date, Prior claiming in India
    Prior public knowledge or public use in India
    Obviousness and lack of inventive step
    non patentable subject matter
    insufficiency of description of the invention
    non-disclosure of information as per the requirement or providing materially false information by an applicant
    Patent application not filed within 12 months of filing the first application in a convention country
    nondisclosure/ wrong mention of source of biological material
    Invention anticipated with regard to traditional knowledge of any community, anywhere in the world.

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

They can do ex-employee litigation which means that they can sue me for doing the same thing outside of the place of work.

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

I can create a firm of my own to do the same work. But I feel I can funded better in the field of Lithium Ion batteries, so I think I should probably file IP of my old patents, and then sell them Or, I should sue my older firm for equity / money / IP and then put the winnings in my new firm.

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

This dude that runs the firm is my uncle too. Documenting the Bullshit has the following implications - 1. The rest of the employees know what the fuck is going on 2. The investors knowing what is going on 3. The patent office seeing what the hell is going on and fucking up all their IP.

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

I can oppose the patent at the patent office and document all the bullshit in the filing. Then anyone who looks at the IP will also see the bullshit involved in the process and walk away from the IP

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

Latter.

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

My skills at the art are not the best in the world. My B.S and M.S are in one field and this invention is in another field.

I can choose to file IP in the same field and seek funding. Or Just destroy the old firms IP. In India there is something called pre grant opposition.

randomly123on How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?

Country - India