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- Top 45 patent recipients in the US in 2005
- Intellectual Property Owners Association published a list of top patent recipients in the US for 2005. The top 45 patent recipients in 2005 are: International Business Machines Corp. - 2941 Hitachi, Ltd. - 1918 Canon K.K. - 1875 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - 1813 Hewlett-Packard Co. - 1808 Samsung...
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- Blog posts 2006-07-15
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- Visible Carbon Copy 1.0.2 (Windows)
- Visible Carbon Copy VCC, with patent pending technology and copyright, is an innovative add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2007. Now many industries including but not limited to, government, law enforcement, education, corporations, personal, and home use, can utilize this application.You can now spend your valuable time writing only one email to...
- Tags: Recipient, Microsoft Windows, Visible Carbon Copy, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-04-29
- SplitEmail 5.11 (Windows)
- SplitEmail is a patent pending email plug-in that reduces Email overload. Sender can highlight parts of an email message for a particular recipient while leaving it un-highlighted for everyone else. It also allows the sender to mark sections of an email private for specific recipients. Attachments can also be addressed...
- Tags: Recipient, Microsoft Windows, SplitEmail, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-06-03
- BlackBerry Patent app proposes improvements for meeting invite emails from BlackBerry calendar
- A new BlackBerry Patent app just published today would make it easier than it currently is to generate emails containing invites for future meetings from the BlackBerry Calendar. Then, the technology would also provide recipients with an email interface they can reply to the recipient with....
- Tags: Method, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Patent App, E-mail, Handhelds, Online Communications, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?
- After being in New York City last week and being busy almost the entire time, I spent a good part of the weekend catching up on e-mail. I have more inboxes than I care to admit and use more technologies than I should be using to see access them...
- Tags: Folder, Anti-spam, Gartner Inc., E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Is Apple planning an e-card service? Seems so from this Patent application
- A newly published Apple Patent application entitled eCards from multiple users appears to describe technology that may point to Apple offering e-cards where multiple users could digitally sign the card. The Patent application specifically refers to an "ecard website" where this could be...
- Tags: Message, Card, Apple Inc., E-card, Web Site, User, Jill, Jack, 1A, Web Site Development, Web Technology, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- BlackBerry Patent app would display caller location on map
- A newly published BlackBerry Patent application describes technology that would use GPS data from an incoming caller's location, and then display that location on a map interface running on the recipient's BlackBerry.The Patent application, fittinly enough, is entitled Visual representation of contact location.The application's Abstract gives us a basic understanding...
- Tags: Device, Avatar, Information, RIM BlackBerry, Status, User, Location, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Browser-based spelling autocorrection described in Microsoft Patent app
- Technology described in a newly published Microsoft Patent application would enable automated spell-checking of text entered by the user in a networked Web browser.The way I read this Patent's literature, an example of this functionality would be if, when you were accessing the Web through a network-connected broswer, the technology...
- Tags: microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Are Microsoft's patent lawyers really this dumb?
- Are Microsoft's patent lawyers playing possum? Or are they really as clueless about what makes open-source software tick as they seem? Consider the latest patent-related statement Microsoft published to its Web site on July 5 a statement claiming it is not party to the GPLv3 and is...
- Tags: GPL, Novell Inc., Patent, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3
- Microsoft says it's not a party to the third version of the General Public License and assumes it's not under any legal obligations under the license. The statement, made on Thursday, is the first remarks on the GPLv3, which was released in its final form June 29. Here's what Microsoft...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, Novell, Microsoft, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- How Microsoft helps open source
- How Microsoft helps open sourceIn general, without the Microsoft twin monopolies, the reason foropen source would not have existed. Many competitors that now use open source were really somewhat forced into it as the ONLY way really to compete against two entrenched monopolies.Would have Sun have ever released OpenOffice as...
- Tags: UNIX, gravitation, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- GPV V3 and hardware modification
- The Free Software Foundation has released its "last call" draft of GPL V3, along with a personal plea from Richard Stallman for folks to upgrade from V2. (This gadget-loving Tux was found at Computer Shopper.)Most discussion of the new release will focus on Novell, which won clearance for its Microsoft...
- Tags: wireless, telecom, Strategy, Software Licensing, mobile, mass market, Legal, Hardware, GPL, Government, FOSS
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Microsoft and patent claims: 'Business as usual'?
- Microsoft and patent claims: 'Business as usual'?"transparency"The motivation for releasing the "patent numbers" had nothing whatsoever to do with "more transparency".It was all about expanding the extortion game.Make no mistake, this may be all about using FUD to levy an illegitimate MS tax on FOSS for the moment but MS...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2007-05-20
- EXCLUSIVE: Major new BlackBerry Patent app simplifies task-key association
- A major new BlackBerry Patent application would greatly simplify the association between certain tasks and the keys on a BlackBerry keypad.Title of the Patent app: DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INFORMING USERS OF FUNCTIONS AND CHARACTERS ASSOCIATED WITH TELEPHONE KEYS.I am not shouting:all-caps is Research In Motions.The Patent Abstract...
- Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Patents
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- XPS printing in Vista
- XPS printing in VistaFollowing the linksJohn, maybe the links resolve differently inside of Microsoft.[url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpsspec.mspx]The specification link[/url] leads to a standard trade-secret nondisclosure agreement which specifically disclaims any patent use authorization and requires agreement to eyes-only distribution, nondisclosure of contents, destruction of copies following merger or acquisition, etc.It doesn't require royalties,...
- Tags: Printers, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDF technology, Adobe PDF, XPS, printer, DOES IT, patent
- Discussion threads 2007-04-10
- New Blackberry patent could be filed under 'annoying'
- New Blackberry patent could be filed under 'annoying'Your attitude contributes mainly to inarticulate messagesThe media are full of articles which describe the deterioration of spelling, grammar and punctuation. The opinion in your article indicates that you prefer to make and retain self-created spelling and punctuation errors in your messages, rather...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, media, annoyance, patent, software
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- BlackBerry patent would convert e-mailed appointment references to calendar entries
- BlackBerry patent would convert e-mailed appointment references to calendar entriesAbsurd.This is such an obvious thing that it is totally nuts to apply a patent for. This only goes to show the whole absurdity of patenting software. I am sure there even may be prior art out there already....
- Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry, TSupport
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- BlackBerry patent would convert e-mailed appointment references to calendar entries
- Now, in the pantheon of BlackBerry inventions, this is cooler than many.Just this morning, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published "Scheduling Events from Electronic Messages," a patent application from BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion that would enable extraction of appointment-related information from BlackBerry emails and then insert information about...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Spam maker sees trademark bid canned
- Spam maker sees trademark bid cannedhallelujah- there be the lightperhaps.,... just perhaps.... there is hope to this crazy trademark and patent thinking..... hallelujahI sleep better tonight [just as long as MS have a pending application for the TM spam as some form of unwanted intrusion into the personal life of...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Branding, Google Inc., Spiced Ham, ham, Sham
- Discussion threads 2006-10-05
- Of SWFWAPs and data privacy
- The Register reports that a patent filed by Amazon.com ("Providing gift clustering functionality to assist a user in ordering multiple items for a recipient") was published last week. Its title sounds innocuous and even laudable I frequently need assistance in ordering multiple clustered gift items for a recipient, but there's...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-23
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