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- Beating patent trolls at their own game
- Saul Hansell's piece in the Times is called Trolling for Patents to Fight Patent Trolls. Kinda like a war for peace. At a recent patent auction in San Francisco, which in general didn't go that well for the auctioneers, one company that was snapping patents up was...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
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- Is Acacia link with Microsoft just smoke?
- Acacia Technologies, the patent firm which has publicly denied any link with Microsoft, took capital in 2003 from BayStar Capital, which for a time acted as a capital conduit from Microsoft to SCO Research, according to Groklaw. This could all be just coincidence, or smoke, as the saying...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Acacia denies patent claim is an attack on open source, denies any Microsoft role
- Acacia Research Corp. on Friday released a statement to ZDNet's Open source Blog writers regarding the patent infringement case it filed against Red Hat and Novell on October 9. In the statement, which appears below in its entirety, Acacia insists that its patent claim is not...
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- First patent suit against Linux has a Kevin Bacon-esque connection to Microsoft
- It appears as though the first patent suit against Linux -- targeting Red Hat and Novell -- is now official. According to Groklaw's Pamela Jones: IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, case...
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Have patent, will sue
- Have patent, will sueDidn't address the concernsThese people are arguing over "What constitutes a patent?". Characterizing anyone that has different ideas on the subject as abusers of the system is disingenuous. You would think that his company would be neutral on patents - any definition of a patent would still...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-10
- Patent infringement bypasses global warming as biggest threat to human existence
- Recent moves by intellectual property holdings outfits like Acacia Research have sparked a patent land grabbing epidemic that has threatened to accelerate the extinction of all life on earth unless the charter of the Kyoto Treaty is expanded to include other, more pressing matters that threaten the Earth's ecosytem....
- Blog posts 2005-07-20
- Motorola coy with iTunes phone
- Motorola coy with iTunes phoneAll the I-Tunes suckers now feeling the pinchSo I guess Apples restricted the DRM again and again. Can burn only 10, no make that 7. What next 5 in september. Want to share that music over the network, tough luck! Not allowing rendevous anymore.Now I'm sure...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-16
- DIY kit to power Tokyo WiMax rollout
- DIY kit to power Tokyo WiMax rolloutAnd people wonder why Telcos are TERRIFIED.Hmmm, now all I need is a VoIP enbled device and it's good bye to the telco's and their monthly biil for a 30 year old twisted pair. Come USA, let's get on with it.The real story...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-15
- HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to deal
- HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to dealTranslated...HP: "At the end of the day, software patents are a way of life. To ignore them is a little bit naive..."Here is a translation: "We will continue to stifle innovation, limit the market forces of competition, corrupt the system, and generally abuse...
- Discussion threads 2005-02-15
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