Patents can’t be owned by companies. Only individuals. In the event of any patent being the result of a team effort each person responsible for its development is gets a proportion of profits from it.

If person develops a patent while employed at a corporation that company owns a lease on the patent lasting 10 or 20 years or something .

I’m sure there’s holes in this you can drive a truck through but high level I feel like there is something there.

I also can’t be arsed to flesh it out further.

i think they may be referencing the fact that huge amounts of money have been given to them by google?

You beautiful bastard, you.

I couldn’t agree more.

It’s fucking pathetic.

This is so, so fucking stupid.

Am i really supposed such a jarring and complete lack of ceitical thinking ability to believe that this is an issue worth writing an article about?

To explain: of all the monumentally incompetent, illegal, mond-numbingly stupid, and agressively short-sighted things a trenager is inevitably going to type into a school laptop I’m supposed to believe that THIS, this is what is worth writing an article about?

I do not disagree with what the author is teying to say but holy fucking shit what a load of pandering, steaming shit this is.

Getting flagged for being trans is, like, one of a countless number of idiotic things a teenager could do with a school laptop with monitoring software installed that could potentially land them in hot water.

The dangers of normalizing surveillance amongst students are so fucking multitudinous that to highlight any one of them is fuckjng pointless when addressing the root of it covers ALL of them. Including the subject of this article.