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IBM files patent complaint vs. Taiwan's Asustek

IBM files patent complaint vs. Taiwan's AsustekPatent on power supplies and cooling?!What in the world?! Why are such broad patents being awarded??? Patents on computer power supplies and cooling could apply to any computer manufacturer in existence. Really, are the people responsible for approving patents asleep at the wheel? How...

Tags: IBM Files Patent complaint, IBM Files Patent, AsusTek Computer, patent, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

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News to know: Botnets; Adobe patch day; NetApp; Craigslist

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery Images: Inside the botnets that never make the news right ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NetApp Inc., Craigslist, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Robots, GPS, Document Management, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Larry Dignan

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Blog posts 2007-06-04

Open-source group wants educational patent reversed

Open-source group wants educational patent reversedAnother bogus patentThis sounds a lot like the security models used in most accounting and projects tracking software. A user has multiple roles; and depending on the roles held, will have different levels of access within different components, or different projects, or different cost...

Tags: patent, software, open source

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?

Somewhere in the back of my mind, the fact that I have seen multiple news headlines having to do with new or ongoing lawsuits in the tech industry was gnawing at me. So, I decided to search ZDNet on the words "infringement" and "lawsuit" to see what came up. Here,...

Tags: General, Legal

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Group seeks to invalidate Microsoft patent

Group seeks to invalidate Microsoft patentIn my humble opinion...In my humble opinion, the fact that any royalty fees are inconsistent with open source or free software is not sufficient reason to deny Microsofts patent. Only if it can be proven that there was prior art should this...

Tags: open source, patent, file system, Samba, prior art, Sounds like No_Ax, Microsoft Corp., software

Discussion threads 2004-04-16