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Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped: A new website entitled End Software Patents is attempting to galvanize public support to accomplish that goal. Here's the core of their argument: Patents differ from copyright in one key manner: independent invention is a valid defense against claims of copyright...; Tags: Software, Bureaucracy, Software Patent, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-29
A Pharmaceutical Company Uses IBM's Business Insights Workbench to Mine Vast Stores of Structured and Unstructured Data: The challenge was daunting: In the public domain alone, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database contains more than 7.9 million full text and drawings of U.S. patents since 1976 and full-page images since 1790. In addition, Medline, an indexing service for research in medicine and related fields provided by...; Tags: Biomedical, IBM Corp., Business Insights Workbench, Healthcare; Case studies 2008-01-01
Growing backlogs at USPTO as Supreme Court tightens standards: With two major patent decisions made today by the Supreme Court, the AP paid a little visit to the US Patent and Trademark Office. And what did the AP reporter find? Patent applications, lots of em. The red folders are everywhere at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office....; Tags: Government technology; Blog posts 2007-04-30
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
More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary: A couple of recent announcements from two large, very well-known organizations provides an interesting data point on how Web 2.0 is affecting the product designs and business processes of otherwise very traditional institutions. Both USA Today and the U.S. Patent and Trademark office have recently unveiled strategies for letting...; Tags: Architecture of Participation, Business Models, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, Social Media, Social Software, Two-Way Web, User Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-08

Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeAdd the blind test to avoid biasDan, thanks for digging into this story and getting the details. The patent system needs help...and this open comment process could help a lot.It would be really great if the patent application could be reviewed while...; Tags: Wiki, reviewer, Web 2.0, patent, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Wikipedia, Web; Discussion threads 2007-03-05
Patents get a wiki and a marketplace, now to put them together: Two big announcements about patents hit the wires today. The first, covered by Dan Farber and others, which has the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO adopting the use of Web-based peer review and crowdsourcing in patent applications reviews, will change the nature of patents. The second, the introduction of...; Tags: Business &, Technology; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: As I reported last week from my interview with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Jon Dudas, the patent process is about to taste Web 2.0. The Washington Post reports that a pilot social software project that allows for third-party comments and voting, adding a community, peer review dimension to...; Tags: Government, Legal, General; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Tech Policy Summit: Silicon Valley missing in action: Earlier this week I attended the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose at the Dolce Hayes Mansion, a southern tip of Silicon Valley. Speakers included top government officials, such as Jon Dudas, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Greg Garcia, the Department of Homeland Securitys cybersecurity czar; Congressman...; Tags: Broadband, General, Government, Green Tech, Legal, Telecommunications, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless; Blog posts 2007-02-28
Tech Policy Summit: Fixing the patent system...soon: At the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, the broken patent system was the topic of several panels. First, Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) said that he coordinating with Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)and others in Congress to produce a patent reform bill in the next two to three weeks. Berman, who...; Tags: Legal, Government, General; Blog posts 2007-02-26
BlackBerry patent would ease the pain of connections with peripheral devices: Published just last week, a new BlackBerry patent application would greatly ease connections between a BlackBerry and other devices.The patent app is named "Universal peripheral connector." Ive just linked you to the app as published on the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. And thats a...; Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Patents; Blog posts 2007-02-22
BlackBerry patent would ease content transfer from other mobile devices: Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website posted a new Patent application by BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion that would ease transfer of content between a BlackBerry and another portable device in a vehicle.In other words, if and when this technology comes to market, you might be able to...; Tags: BlackBerry Patents, Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-02-16
Cisco kids not by suing Apple over iPhone: so what do you think of this mess?: Cisco kids not by suing Apple over iPhone: so what do you think of this mess?I already commented about this on your colleagues posthttp://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4270 Jobs is an arrogant jerk like the rest of them and needs to have an example set of himself!iMOBILE, iPodMobile, iCommunicate, iTalkI say change the name....; Tags: Notebooks, job, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc., XXXXX; Discussion threads 2007-01-10
Net neutrality, patents, broadband top new Congress's tech agenda: When the 110th Congress convenes next year, a number of tech-related initiatives will take center stage, Grant Gross writes for IDG News Service. Among them privacy, patents and network neutrality. Privacy and data breach notification With data breaches exploding all over the private and public sectors, there...; Tags: Universal Service Fund, Representative Rick Boucher, patent; Blog posts 2006-12-25
Three 'iPhone' trademark applications neither Cisco nor Apple owns are awaiting Trademark Office action: EXCLUSIVE: Much fuss is being made of the fact that Cisco-not Apple- owned the iPhone trademark and stemming from that, Cisco has released its iPhone family of VoIP products. Thats an example of an iPhone at the top of this post.So the current spin of this is that Cisco-stealthy they...; Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc., Trademark Office, iPhone Trademark; Blog posts 2006-12-19
Google launches patent search site: Google launches patent search siteMore people being able to easily locate patents will help weed out reallybad patents. We also need to make it easier to search for patent applications. Hopefully, Google will implement an email notification system, so you can specify a search for patent applications, and then recieve...; Tags: patent, Google Inc., Google launches patent search site; Discussion threads 2006-12-14
Google wins patent for search results page design: Google wins patent for search results page designGoogle wins patent for search results page designGoogle wins a patent for doing something people have done on the internet for years? HTML and web design was around a lot longer than Google was. I wonder just how much money Google had to...; Tags: patent, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-12-13
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Trademark Office docs point to REAL reasons for" Podcast" controversy: When I first learned that Apple was sending "infringement"-claiming cease and desist letters to Podcasters such as Podcast Ready my first reaction was: OK, iPod has been around for two five years, (sorry-typo) and "podcast" two years, so why is Apple doing this now? Especially when the term "podcast" conveys...; Tags: Apple Computer Inc.; Blog posts 2006-09-23
Online poker "physical object connection" with casino poker would use VoIP, RFID: A newly published U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application describes a way for online poker players to "physically interact" with real, in-casino poker games. The process would involve sophisticated RFID technologies embedded in the casino poker cards, and a broadband connection powerful enough to be able to deliver the tactile...; Tags: on-line player; Blog posts 2006-09-18
Blackboard wins e-learning patent, sues competitor: A patent infringement fight is on as Blackboard won a very broad patent on e-learning technology including “core technology relating to certain systems and methods involved in offering online education, including course management systems and enterprise e-Learning systems.” The company then immediately sued competitor Desire2Learn, a learning management system developer.Another...; Tags: Blackboard, patent; Blog posts 2006-08-17