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- Verizon to court: why is Vonage objecting to our Patents NOW?
- InternetNews reports that on Thursday, Verizon urged a federal appeals court to reject Vonage's contention that a recent Supreme Court decision on obviousness justifies the reversal of a $58 million infringement judgment against the Internet telephony company. Verizon had written in its appeal that the April 30...
- Tags: News, Verizon, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Supreme Court loosens patent 'obviousness' test
- Supreme Court loosens patent 'obviousness' testGreat news to see that more obvious patents will get thrown out.But, still a long way to go.Supreme Court is moving in the right direction ...Its about time!Finally.. obivious is outNew applications for the same tech should be thrown out. New tech fields should...
- Tags: patent, obviousness, email program, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- Supreme Court weighs 'obviousness' of patents
- Supreme Court weighs 'obviousness' of patentsThis might help, but patents will still stifle inovation.The best thing we could do is through copyright and trade secret.So will this effect McDonaldsWith there patent on making the sandwich, and Microsoft on the double click mouse which was just passed last year, or the...
- Tags: patent, obviousness
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Supreme Court to examine 'obviousness' of patents
- Supreme Court to examine 'obviousness' of patents"I was thinking about it."Just as there are thought crimes, so there is a thought demonstration of obviousness.Yes, some patents are absurd.The problem is defining a subjective term like obvious in a way Courts can follow.Particularly when some ideas seem obvious after the fact....
- Tags: innovation, patent, obviousness, aluminum
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
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- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?One thing I would like to knowHow many of those patents are actually [i]inventions[/i]?RE: Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?That is a bit fuzzy isn't it. Initially here's all you'll find.http://www.intellectualventures.com/inv_main.aspxEveryone plays by the same rulesHow can he be considered a troll? He is doing for...
- Tags: patent, Alpha patent troll, Nathan Myhrvold, patent troll
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!
- Can "prior art" be too prior? Dramatic evidence of America's broken patent system surfaced in last week's lawsuit by Seagate against STEC, the innovative developer of high-performance flash drives. Imagine winning a patent for something invented 10 years before. Seagate may sue SANdisk next. Seagate owns...
- Tags: Patent, Disk Drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully
- Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefullyJust surrender and it won't hurt at allSeriously, unless/until MS discloses which patents have been violated by which packages, their patent claims and their lawyer should be treated with absolute contempt. Furthermore, inasmuch as...
- Tags: IP, Microsoft Corp., Brad Smith, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- 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
- Hacking and the modern hospital
- Hacking and the modern hospital..and restore!You have to restore from backups every so often to make sure the system works!Very misleading logic....Regarding risk of loss of records...how is this any better from the paper world scenario of a janitor who could take a match to all the paper records...of which...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, SECURITY, hospital, logic bomb, hacking
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- The real issue in the software patent fight
- The real issue in the software patent fightThis is why the issue NEEDS to come before the Supreme Court ...The legal basis of Software Patents has never been tested before the Supreme Court. The reason for that is that heretofore all of the litigants in Software Patent cases have...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, software patent
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- Did Microsoft send in the trolls?
- Did Microsoft send in the trolls?Patent scopeThese patents only apply in the US. Here in Europe we'll do what we have done for years and ignore them.This suit will be all about The Standard for Obviousness[url=http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070430121005424]FYI[/url]
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-13
- Apple's new kick-butt file system pushes on
- Apple's new kick-butt file system pushes onSounds similarto ReiserFS 4... ]:)FINALLY!Competition in a MEANINGFUL way, not just bells and whistles!Open source seems to be good.Sun being sued for ZFS?Isn't Sun being sued by NetApp over patented idea/technology infringement in the ZFS?Article sounds a bit over-hypedalmost to the point where it...
- Tags: NetApp, open source, patent office, Beryl, ZFS, file system, Apple Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- House votes to overhaul patent system
- House votes to overhaul patent systemThank you Marcy Kaptor - big transnational companiesBig Transnational Companies - the enemy has been identified. That would include especially Barclays Bank home of Patty Dunn and queen of identity theft at HP. Lets recognize also Siemens and SAP who today must be...
- Tags: Strategy, War-on-terror, al-Qaida, patent system, patent, Big Transnational Companies, innovation
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- NetApp claims Sun's ZFS violates its patents
- NetApp claims Sun's ZFS violates its patentsMr. Hitz appears to be a real gentleman.If this is not MS style hype then Mr. Hitz' position is admirable.His concern for the customers of both companies should serve asan example to many (SCO, MicroSoft, and Apple come to mind).Nice to see a company...
- Tags: Storage, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, file system, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-05
- Patch Tuesday: No Vista hotfixes via Windows Update
- Patch Tuesday: No Vista hotfixes via Windows UpdateIsn't Patch Tuesday reserved for security patches?These two don't fall into the security patch category.VCSY can do what VMWare does. VMWare can not do what VCSY does.Now that VMWare is showing the world (including Microsoft who can't produce their own hypervisor framework until......
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, Virtualization, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Web browser, VCSY, Patch Tuesday, VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- OpenBSD team mocked at first ever 'Pwnie' awards
- LAS VEGAS -- The OpenBSD team has won an award for the most spectacular "mishandling" of a critical security vulnerability.Here's why:The OpenBSD team refused to acknowledge the bug as a security vulnerability and issued a "reliability fix" for it. A week later Core Security had developed proof of concept code...
- Tags: Zero-day attacks, Wireless, Windows Vista, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Mozilla, Microsoft, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- eBay wins round in 'Buy it now' patent redux
- eBay wins round in 'Buy it now' patent reduxClarification is goodI'm hopeful that this case will clarify to what degree the "infringer" sic can be subject to an injunction, which can literally stop the business. Seems harsh if something can be worked around so easily, no?I'm glad also that there...
- Tags: patent, Buy-It-Now, clarification, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- Now three Linux vendors won't sign patent deals with Microsoft
- Now three Linux vendors won't sign patent deals with MicrosoftLet's hear more...I respect the vendors for deciding whether to enter into agreements with Microsoft or not. But let's hear a bit more details (you know, accurate and detailed reporting and all that...) about why those three have decided...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, TurboLinux Inc., media, Microsoft Corp., patent, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Your license, or mine?
- Your license, or mine?Not negative, no.[b][i]In effect what he’s saying. and I think he’s right whether he meant to say this or not, is that the GPL asserts intellectual property rights in a negative way: explicitly trying to prevent the commercial exploitation of community effort[/i][/b]One doesn't describe a license as...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, BSD License, Free Software Foundation, software, GPL, operating system, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- Hey readers, what's your problem with Patents?
- Hey readers, what's your problem with Patents?Patents OK; software patents badNews at 11.Patent abuse is rampant.1. Software patents are just wrong. These things are so bad that having a reply system with a button labeled "Submit My Reply" could infringe on one or more patents. 2. Business process patents are...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Business process patent, patent, software
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
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