U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages

Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by user5994461 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @06:34PM (#13135359)

Wait... What?!

Politics is etymologically related to "polis", which is the greek word for "city".

The greek (and the later adaptation in latin) gave "politic" to designate 'the affairs of the city', and 'polites' for 'citizen'.

To put that simply, "politic" is supposed to be the management of a city.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by Double_Cast on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:31PM (#13136695)

I agree. "Polis" is the root of both "politics" and "policy" [0]. The modern definition of policy extends to groups both larger or smaller than cities. I don't know which claim is under dispute.

[0] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=policy&allowed_in_f...

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by hisham_hm on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:14AM (#13138540)

"Politics" and "policy" even translate today to the same word in Portuguese and Spanish (and probably others).

  * "public policy" = "políticas públicas"
  * "company policy" = "política da companhia"
  * "political campaign" = "campanha política"
  * "gender politics" = "políticas de gênero"

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