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- Qualcomm patent ruled invalid in German Nokia case
- The German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against the world's top cell phone maker Nokia was invalid. HELSINKI--The German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against the world's top cell...
- News items 2008-07-24
- Qualcomm, Nokia deal ends long legal battle
- Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. NEW YORK--Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. ...
- News items 2008-07-24
- McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringement
- McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringementPatent for?"Method for detective intrusive agents"???You gotta love the busted US Patent system. (not; unless you're a lawyer; Shakespeare was right)-MPS: I'm sure someone has a patent on toilet paper.RE: McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringementDownload DeepNine's patent in PDF for free at...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Silverlight suit: Microsoft's conduct is "unlawful" and "willful"
- Silverlight suit: Microsoft's conduct is "unlawful" and "willful"SilverliteSo... the point of this article is... ???Since Silverlight came from Microsoft...and Microsoft is the biggest name in software, it becomes way to easy for those jealous of Microsoft's success to tear down or discredit them with frivilous lawsuits. What if Silverlight came...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit
- Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuitFragmentParagraph 3 Sentance 1 is a fragment, its missing the part that we need... what the lawsuit is actually about!Nothing new here folks, move along, move along.This isn't something new here. Microsoft is always infringing on someone elses IP.Are these guys...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Get Land Patents (exe)
- Get land patents database. This land patent databases are the same ones used by private investigators, law enforcement, and government agencies. Get Land Patents allows you to find anything you want to know about land patents from the comfort of your own home. This version is the first release on...
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls
- Seeing as how patent reform has died on the vine, several tech and telecom companies are taking matters into their own hands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scared by the NTP v Research in Motion case, in which the BlackBerry maker came perilously close to folding...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the pass
- Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the passEasier SolutionAn easier solution to the problem is to get rid of destructive, insidious software patents completely. Software should never have become patentable.Software patents == utter corruption of our market and will be a major cause of the US losing...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Rumor Mill: iSight HD, new Intel chips, iPod touch 2G, patents (updated)
- Rumor Mill: iSight HD, new Intel chips, iPod touch 2G, patents updatedIPOD TOUCHWe need a speaker on this badboy and then we have a complete product. Why would they not do this from day one?????
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Rumor Mill: iSight HD, new Intel chips, iPod touch 2G, patents (updated)
- Happy Friday! Let's take a look at some of the latest Apple rumors floating around. A MacRumors reader found references to an unreleased High Definition USB iSight in Apple's QuickTime system files. The line says "Next Generation USB iSight" in QuickTime's localizable.strings and also carries a reference...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- What value in the Red Hat patent guarantee?
- Red Hat still faces a lawsuit brought by IP Innovation, which Linux Watch has called a patent troll, and Microsoft is still sitting at the table, fingering its ginormous stack of chips and smiling its Mona Lisa smile. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
- "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- PaaS and the patent trolls
- Many of the emerging Platform as a Service offerings encourage business users or specialist business solution providers to create their own custom applications. From Coghead to Iceberg, Quickbase to Rollbase and Longjump to Zoho, the message is one of unlimited freedom to custom-build your own business process automation. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Does open source mandate change in copyright law?
- Does open source mandate change in copyright law?I don't see where open source fitsOpen source is just being able to see the source which is protected by copyright and sometimes patents as well. What license one uses to authorized use of the software really is irrelevant. It might be a...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims
- I was reminded today that it has now been a year since Microsoft made its claim that Linux violates hundreds of its patents. In the year since Microsoft has used this FUD like a bargaining chip. It has sued no one. It has not pressed its patent...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reformOur health insurance dollars at workIn this case, patents allow medical equipment companies to charge premium prices to medical offices and hospitals, who pass the costs on to insurers, who pass the costs on to employers and taxpayers. Eventually, it's the patients who...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- Patent reform dead for 2008Patent "REFORM"What annoys me about pundits who write about patents is that invariably they have never filed for or prosecuted a patent. Thus, they inveigh for things that they have no clue about. Most of the patent legislation is a balancing of special interests....
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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