Racism is baked into patent systems

What is Racism?*

Fighting racism requires knowing what it is — not an easy task. Today the word “racism” has so many contradictory meanings that it takes on the aura of a myth and is, therefore, difficult to define. The following will attempt to define racist ideology, independently of any sociological considerations. The first difficulty arises from the fact that racism is a Schimpfwort: a term with pejorative...

What is racism?

Racism is a term to describe the views and actions of one group of people toward another based on the idea that the two groups are distinguished by “race” and that the group with racist views believes itself to be superior to the other. That belief in superiority is usually followed by exclusion of the other group from some or many aspects of the society in which the “superior race” is either i...

What is Patent Quality?

Four Partially Baked Results

D Whysong and I have been carrying out a mid-IR survey of 3C radio galaxies to see which have IR-excesses, interpretable as hidden Type-1 AGN. Mostly due to relentless bad weather, we have a modest collections of observations so far. However, we can say with confidence that some radio galaxies are true kinetic, nonthermal emitters, with negligible energetic contribution from a visible or hidden...

Baked Beans and Spaghetti

In this paper we show that there is more than one way to skin a rabbit, by giving a couple of approaches to solving the problem: How many towers of all heights can be made if you have available a certain specified number of baked bean cans and spaghetti cans, but need not use them all in any one tower? We show the relevance of this problem, and more especially the techniques used to solve it, f...