Now I just need to figure out how to make Word stick to these commands and not decide that right half of the screen means the right 3/4 of the screen.

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Thing is, I haven't lived in Italy for well over a decade. I don't consume much Italian content. I've tried my best to purge my Google account of any possible trace of Italian language settings, I've never saved an Italian address etc.

And yet Google must be convinced that, because I was in Italy over a dozen years ago when I made the account I must be Italian, and that cannot possibly change.

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The fees are fixed, but the effect is pretty similar to what you describe.

In some jurisdictions you get a discount on the fees if you declare that you are open to licence out your patent. Then everyone can use your invention without having to ask for permission,as long as they pay the license fee.

EDIT: I looked it up, in Germany (§ 23 PatG) the patent office can set the licence fees that others have to pay, so you can't play games by just setting the fee to a trillion euros.

I need to write a lot of long texts for work and some good dictation software would be great. I know there's Dragon, but somehow I have not been able to find something that fits my need and is free.

Trademarks do get grouped into classes (the so called "Nice Classification", like the French city [0]). The classes are very detailed, and the first 34 refer to "Goods", the rest to "Services".

Specifically class 9 refers to (among many other things), "computers, computer software", class 42 to "design and development of computer hardware and software".

However those are mostly just to simplify searching for and dealing with the huge amount of trademarks. Each trademark comes with its own list of goods and services it's supposed to cover. Their trademark in the UK [1] covers "computer software, software and apparatus for the extraction of business information and knowledge".

They also appear to have registered a trademark this september [2] with a much broader scope, so after Meta started using threads. I'm not familiar with UK law and how it relates to trademarks in this case, however.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_(Nice)_Classific... [1]: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00... [2]: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...

In section 3.3 it says that GSK argued their patent on the new form was being infringed because "there were batches of anhydrate that converted almost entirely into hemihydrate when stored at 40 °C and 75 % humidity within one month."

So "if you keep it wet and warm it will partially convert over the course of a month", and as far as I can tell the "seeding" aspect was not clarified, at least not in the article.

Also it bugs me that the Wikipedia author decided to call the loss for GSK a "technicality". It was decided that it was not relevant that microscopic quantities of the new form were created by accident, I think that is the correct decision and not a technicality.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479028/

Obviously there's differences in methodology etc. but seems to be the same ballpark. Not sure I'd call WWII cheap.

[0]: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2020/february/war-...

I.e., we'd probably still have a housing crisis in Europe even if not a single foreigner came in.

I keep seeing this argument pop up all the time online and in person, but it's never really made sense to me. Population growth in most European countries is lower now than at many periods in the past, yet we were able to house rising populations somehow.

Do people think cities like Berlin and Paris just got plopped down fully formed at some distant point in the past, together with instructions reading "Population: 3 million max., never exceed or add anything"? They and their infrastructure have grown over time as the population has grown. There's no magic maximum population limit that every city in the western world has just happened to hit right in the last 20 years.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entziehung_elektrischer_Energi...

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In fact I'm downloading a whole batch of patent texts right now because I wanted to experiment with semantic search on patent texts.

Anyone here have any pointers on what the state of the art method for semantic search through a large corpus would be? I've just started researching and BERT and friends seems like it was popular about 2 years ago but things move so fast I wouldn't know what I should do now.

What about a medium sized corpus of text, say 100.000 pages of text?

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1636354A/