On 5/2/24 01:39, Janet Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 5/1/24 13:19, nix via agora-discussion wrote: >>>> I intend to award Employee of the Year to snail and Janet. >>> I object, sorry. I think these need to be phrased as separate intents. >>> >> I don't think that's true. The rule text says awardable to "the >> persons", plural. Nothing indicates it cannot be awarded to multiple >> people, and overall patent titles can belong to entities (and the joint >> of two players is still an entity). The semantic difference is whether >> there's one title jointly awarded to both of you (which I think this >> implies), or two separate titles for each of you. > > > It's certainly possible to do, but I don't think we have previously had > a patent title being (deliberately) awarded to a set of persons (under > the legal definition, so excluding the instance with BC System), and I > don't think we should start. At the very least, it'd likely cause > confusion in the Herald's report? > > In any event, I don't think the intent specifies that clearly enough to > meet the tabled action standard. >
Joint awards are a normal thing in real life, and the announcement would be pretty much identical to that intent. I really don't see any specificity issue. Whether you think it *should* be done this way is a separate question of whether it works (which I see no rule reason to doubt). -- nix Arbitor, Spendor