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Non-Disruptive Backups and Migrations Enhances European Patent Protection and Management

The European Patent Office grants European patents. The EPO carries out searches and substantive examinations on a steadily rising number of European patent applications and international applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The European Patent Office EPO needed to support up to 60 million patents documents and 800,000 patents...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Patent, Backup, Migration, European Patent Office, It Management, It service Management

Case studies 2008-02-01

Holding back innovation

Holding back innovationRe: Software patentsThis is a topic which in my opinion will for a long time spark very serious debate. I tend to agree that the immense proliferation of software patents has the potential to bring the world as we know it to its knees. Serious strides have been...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, European Patent Office, patent, software, innovation

Discussion threads 2005-07-29

Additional Resources

Patent Grabber 5.6.1 (Windows)

Patent Grabber makes it easy to download U.S. patents EP patents and published applications, and PCT published applications for free from public patent archives. Instead of going to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or European Patent Office web site and loading and printing patent or application pages one at...

Tags: Patent, Microsoft Windows, Blazing Dawn Software

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisys

Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisysread my lipsM$ threts are worth $0.00, even if they succeed, which they will not.When the OS is free their claim is N X $0.00 = ZERO, NADA.RE: Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next UnisysNice conspiracy there... Microsoft...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, FAT32, Unisys Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

News to know: Yahoo's Bartz, Genachowski, Sony's loss, Chrome for Mac

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Yahoo confirms Bartz in charge; Can she save Yahoo? Yahoo to name Bartz CEO; Now the fun begins Sam Diaz: Ya-hoooo: There's a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Federal Government, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Government, Software, Internet, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-14

A $1 billion plan for car-charging network

A $1 billion plan for car-charging networkAre you serious?Hybrid cars are only the first step in the process of moving toward alternative energy. If you seriously believe that we are going to be able to continue use gasoline, even in smaller quantities, then you might want to start paying...

Tags: apparatu, car-charging network, car, electric vehicle, linear distance, battery, network

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

PatentWrangler 2.21 (Windows)

PatentWrangler is for individuals needing quick access to United States patents and published patent applications from the USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office and PCT applications from the European Patent Office. It's a solution that enables you to conveniently download USPTO patents and patent applications into pdfs at home,...

Tags: Patent Application, Patent, Microsoft Windows, PatentWrangler

Software downloads 2008-10-23

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discoveryPatents are the greatest threat to the software industryIt should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the [b]implementation[/b] of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is...

Tags: patent

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Sharing your login is a criminal offence

It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...

Tags: Software, Commoditization, Pricing Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google

Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than GoogleCreative distruction makes us all stongerI think Ray is right. His biggest competitor is open source. I'm not sure Microsoft will recover unless they learn how to embrace open source. The patent wars they have started make them toxic...

Tags: PDC, open source, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, disruptive competitor, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Doing the Microsoft patent math

Just over a year ago, Microsoft officials threw down the patent gauntlet, claiming free and open-source software violated 235 of its patents -- but refused and continue to refuse to get more specific. Today, thanks to a post by my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow, there's a new piece of...

Tags: Patent, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Industrial Property Office Automates Information Systems to Support Czech E-Government Drive

The Industrial Property Office wanted to update and accelerate paper-based processing of requests to support e-government efforts and automate processes. The challenge was to unify intellectual property information systems and connect customers to international networks for patent and trademark information exchange, including the European Patent Office EPO, World Intellectual Property...

Tags: Information System, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Office, E-government, Portals, Intellectual Property, Application Servers, Web Technology, Government, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-04-01

Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML

Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability -- and more patents to protect that IP. Following its interoperability announcement on Feb 21, the...

Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OpenXML, Interoperability Initiative, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Weight Tracker - set your weight and monitor progress (BB) (Mobile)

Measuring your weight can help you and your doctor choose the correct diet and/or drug regiment to control such disorders as congestive heart failure. Body weight measured in the doctor's office may be higher than at other times. The use of home scales can more accurately measure one's overall, or...

Tags: Weight, Monitor, Mobile, Biology, CSV File, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-03-04

Reading the fine print on Microsoft's new open-source promises

So how sweeping are the new interoperability commitments that Microsoft announced on February 21, especially the promising-sounding "covenant not to sue" open-source developers? As I've said, I consider what Microsoft announced today to be more fluff than substance. It sounds like the European Commission shares my view....

Tags: Developer, API, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Microsoft pledges (yet again) that it wants to be interoperable

Microsoft's "significant" announcement on February 21 turns out to be not so significant at all. Microsoft is promising -- for the umpteenth time -- that it will share all the protocols and programming interfaces needed to allow interoperability between its products and others. Why is Microsoft going...

Tags: Interoperability, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Operating Systems, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Big patent law reform on the way?

Two news stories this week indicate a real change to the patent law may be in the works, eliminating key legal roadblocks to open source and Internet innovation. First, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy tapped out a column in The Washington Times, alongside his Republican counterpart, Orrin Hatch. ...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Who+is+the+open+source+candidate%3F

Who+is+the+open+source+candidate%3FIronically......the only presidential candidate this year that strikes as having even partially "walked the walk" is the one that just withdrew. It was Mitt Romney's administration in Massachussetts that adopted ODF as their standard document format, and stood by the decision in the face of intense pressure from MS-lobbyists...

Tags: open source, Mitt Romney, government

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week

Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this weekSomething MS has done very wellDespite how MS always gets negative things said about them they have done silverlight very well. Its a great piece of app for the web.Remember: I'm here from Microsoft and I'm here to help youHere are...

Tags: Leadership, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., innovation

Discussion threads 2008-01-21

Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXML

Microsoft bends over backwards to prove there's an 'open' in OOXMLEU and OOML[i]For the record, I requested more information from the European Commission regarding exactly how OOXML fits into its latest investigation and got no response.[/i]I emailed the ECIS about their complaint too. Also no responce. However, their web site...

Tags: Open Specification Promise, plug-in, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Microsoft Office, XML

Discussion threads 2008-01-17