<story><title>Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-waymo-in-lidar-patent-battle/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>discjockeydom</author><text>I have actually reviewed this man&amp;#x27;s supposedly vigilante&amp;#x27;s submission to the USPTO and it is clear that this story is not what it seems. The document is a highly professional 95+ page document of  complex legal argumentation that only a law firm with a small team of lawyers with a lot of prior experience doing this could have put together. It contains lots of lawyer speak and contemporary argumentation that a lay person would simple not have knowledge of. As much as people are keen to believe the vigilante narrative, there is zero chance that is what happened here. Instead, he was used as a &amp;#x27;strawman&amp;#x27; by a company with much deeper pockets to attack Waymo&amp;#x27;s key patent. I estimate that this actually cost around $100k to prepare and file.</text></comment>
<story><title>Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-waymo-in-lidar-patent-battle/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twtw</author><text>Props to this guy.&lt;p&gt;I just took a look at the patent (highly recommended), and it&amp;#x27;s fairly ridiculous. It&amp;#x27;s a 101 design to control a diode with a transistor.</text></comment>