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Palantir Technologies says an advisor to the company stole its trade secrets and then tried to use them to claim trademarks and patents. Privately-held Palantir says it makes “data fusion platforms for integrating, managing, and securing any kind of data, at massive scale.” The company is known to number United States …

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  1. Mephistro
    Pint

    Mmmhhh...

    A firm of TLA's toadies fighting a [patent troll/crony capitalist/IP thief] in the mud! What a great time to be alive!

    Where's my popcorn?

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    1. Sven Coenye
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      Re: Mmmhhh...

      This one may be a Hobbit. Some can't help themselves no matter how often you tell them not to look into the darn things.

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  2. thomas k

    Chickens, roost?

    Or pot, kettle, black?

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    1. not.known@this.address
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      Black Helicopters

      Re: Chickens, roost?

      Allegedly these guys have dealings with the Alphabet Soup organisations, so maybe that should be "big helicopter, black"??

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  3. Version 1.0 Silver badge

    Business as usual?

    Business Ethics - just another oxymoron. I rather suspect that they all deserve each other.

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  4. VeganVegan
    Happy

    They should have seen this coming

    If they had lived up to their name and their mission.

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  5. Alister

    and made false claims to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

    Wow, were the USPTO diligent enough enough to spot that?

    <reads on>

    Hmm, no, thought not...

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  6. Efros

    When you nick your name

    Maybe you should think twice about bitching when someone does the same to you.

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