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- Would patent reform make software patents acceptable?
- Would patent reform make software patents acceptable?Patents System Should be Junked, Not RespectedThey don't work, they only make the lawyers rich, and they are bad for the public.Junk them.
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, patent, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Fixing a broken patent system
- Fixing a broken patent systemReform?Patent reform is meaningless unless software patentability is abolished and it remains first to invent. First to file tends to reward companies with deep pockets. Not necessarily the actual innovator.Sourcing has astronomical elasticity. Example: Compression RDK_aa3.4.6..i2Bill Gates owns most anything to be said and made for...
- Tags: Patent Reform, sourcing, patent system, inventor, patent, continuation, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- NTP: We sue the (wireless) world
- NTP: We sue the wireless worldThe patent system is certainly broken. Hopefully NTP will pay heprice this time. They got luck with RIM that could not afford a shutdown and wanting to get rid of the uncertainty. This as the patents were being invalidated. Well, who knows, in this case,...
- Tags: patent system, NTP, patent, Research In Motion Ltd., wireless
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- 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
- AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: lawyers for Google, IBM, and Apple ponder the patent system
- If you, like me, have been trying to get your arms around the state of U.S. patent system and the various reforms and changes it is confronting, you hopefully will enjoy my notes from the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit panel on "The Patent Crisis: Crossroads for the Business of Technology."...
- Tags: Patent, Conferences
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Patent law changes power ahead in Congress
- Patent law changes power ahead in CongressSenator Leahy: "promote and protect" patents.Quoting the quote in the article:"We have reaffirmed our commitment to ensuring that our nation's patent laws promote and protect the inventiveness of all of our industries..." Th e bill intends, of cource, to simplify and standardize the...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, patent holder, patent, patent troll, patent system, software patent
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Novell joins EFF for patent reform
- Novell joins EFF for patent reformOur patent system is definitely brokenOur patent system, which is supposed to encourage innovation, is doing the opposite - it's making people afraid to innovate.It's pretty broken.Software patents should be banned ...... that is the way you reform the patent system. Any solution short of...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Novell Inc., patent, software, patent system, Emporer, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Patent System
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Tech Policy Summit: Fixing the patent system...soon
- Tech Policy Summit: Fixing the patent system...soonWanted - proof readerEither you had the "mangle text" option of your word processor turned on or you should fire your editor.HOW COULD THE PATENT LAWS BE ANYTHING BUT FAIR?The Government uses the same logic and fairness ideas as all normal humans do.You invent...
- Tags: Tech Policy Summit, patent system
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Microsoft patent case stirs software export fears
- Microsoft patent case stirs software export fearsWell...I agree with AT&T. The master disks are not blueprints, they are the product. Especially if you look at the terms of software licesnes.Granted, I think all software patents should be abolished.The results should be interesting, to say the least.Either:AT&T wins and...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, patent system, software, patent, Microsoft Corp., AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Vonage and Verizon head to court in patent dispute
- Vonage and Verizon head to court in patent disputeAll patents must die [nt].The Patent System needs an overhaul NOW!I don't too much care for Verizon anyway but why wait a full 4 years before bringing patent issues up? I've used Vonage since they first started in 2002-03 and...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Internet, Patent System, Mercantilism, Verizon Communications Inc., patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Microsoft backpedals on programming patent
- Microsoft backpedals on programming patentMicrosoft backpedals on programming patentIt's all good. Mistakes happen which is all it was in this case. Microsoft retracted its patent application and everyone is happy. Well everyone except Michael Kölling. Writing a full length blog crying about how he will be...
- Tags: Web browsers, Blogging, Development tools, programming, patent system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- Patent reform by way of the Ax
- Patent reform by way of the AxIncentives...The accusation often leveled at you John C is that the incentive you choose is the one that most seems to motivate you to create: property, money, filthy lucre, call it what you will. for some of us though the motivations are different: overcoming...
- Tags: Leadership, patent, incentive, patent system, motivation
- Discussion threads 2006-12-01
- Apple settles with Creative for $100 million
- Apple settles with Creative for $100 millionprobably wouldn't have happened but....it would have been cool if creative could have held out for acc licensing.but that's a big "Yeah Right!"Apple...Apple gets a black eye! ....... about time!!!Where is everyone?When this story first came out, there was page after page about...
- Tags: Digital music, Litigation, Digital media, game, AAC, Patent System, MP3 player, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-23
- Patent Office needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'
- Patent Office needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'Patent Office needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'Just what the world needs, a bunch of linuxtards slamming everything and anything that isn't linux. Sadly this is already happening.Anything would be an improvementThe patent office is being overwhelmed by the rapid advance of...
- Tags: patent office, patent system, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent, prior art, Slashdot
- Discussion threads 2006-04-21
- Nathan Myhrvold: Invention capitalist
- Former head of Microsoft Research and now head of patent foundry Intellectual Ventures Nathan Myhrvold doesn't mind being called a patent troll video here and here. He wants to be the first "invention capitalist." His company is built around monetizing inventions and patents (Intellectual Ventures Myhrvold has 18 patents to...
- Tags: patent system, Nathan Myhrvold
- Blog posts 2006-04-19
- More on the mysterious MagSafe connector
- More on the mysterious MagSafe connectorUS patents are ridiculousI can't believe Apple recieved a patent for that. Magnetic power cords have been on Japanese hot water kettles since 1980. Look at any Zorushi or other imported hot water kettle and it has a magnetic break away power cord....
- Tags: patent, MagSafe Connector, Patent Pending, Patent System
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Patent auctions: Lawyer's dream or way of the future?
- Patent auctions: Lawyer's dream or way of the future?After reading this I feel like I need to take a showerScumbags, all of them.All lawyers go to hell!This "auction" smells like a way for corporate sharks to consolidate and control technology. They'll just buy up the patents just so they...
- Tags: patent system, patent, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-03
- NTP suggests 30 days before BlackBerry cutoff
- NTP suggests 30 days before BlackBerry cutoffThe whole patent system is messed up.NTP vs RIM is just one instance of the mess. The whole patent system is close to disaster. When we have so called "engineering/tech" companies like Rambus whose only source of income is litigation, lawsuits and patents, the...
- Tags: patent system, NTP, patent, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2006-01-18
- The future of the Internet - What role for developing countries?
- The future of the Internet - What role for developing countries?If the other countries don't like the U.S. running the Net......then let them build their own Net. U.S. tax dollars paid for the development of the Net and now the others want to control it. I say TAKE A...
- Tags: developing country, patent system, Internet, Useless Nations
- Discussion threads 2005-11-24
- Ex-Microsoft CTO claims patent 'problem' is myth
- Ex-Microsoft CTO claims patent 'problem' is mythOnly 3% of federal lawsuits is a BIG problem.Think how much money we could save if all that money got put back into inovation. Also think how much more inovation if we would have if we did not have creeps like Myhrvold looking over...
- Tags: patent system, patent, Myhrvold
- Discussion threads 2005-08-23
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