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- Microsoft hit with $1.5 billion patent verdict
- Alcatel-Lucent should sue them all!!It is about time that the judicial system finally convicted to the master thief, Microsoft. Alcatel-Lucent should seek litigation against all the other thieves out there that steal and profit from someone else's work.I dont think this is rightmicrosoft shouldn't of been sued considering they purchased...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., MP3, Newsletter Editor, alcatel-lucent, microsoft, it management, patents, news, Alcatel, Lucent Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- Ballmer repeats threats against Linux
- 1 thing I don't understand about the MS/Novell pact ...... is how the timeline comes in to play. It's a 5 year deal -- so my purported risk is mitigated for 5 years -- after which, if the deal expires, I've got a whole infrastructure on which I'm totally...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., daboochmeister
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Microsoft patent case stirs software export fears
- Microsoft, AT&T head to the Supreme CourtA high-stakes patent case, set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, has attracted a slew of briefs supporting Microsoft's stance in a complex battle with AT&T over rules governing software code exported to foreign locales. There's widespread fear that...
- Tags: Countries, software, Newsletter Editor, job, microsoft, patents, news, lawsuits, federal government, at&t, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Google wins patent for search results page design
- coolI wonder if I could patent my haircut?Sorry FrylockAs I understood the article, your barber could, theoretically, but not you. You are the purchaser of your barber's design.It does make you wonder what they will come up with next.Sure you couldApparently yes, so long as you design it, document...
- Tags: Frylock, patent, barber, patents, off-topic, Google Inc., Starbucks Corp., search result
- Discussion threads 2006-12-14
- Geek Trivia: Cold (con)fusion
- Obviously he didnt.I claim I discovered it on [i]my[/i] resume; nobody as ever questioned me on it though, so I doubt someone else patented it. :)patented fissionI am wondering if Szilard ever sold or was compensated for his first patent for a
- Tags: patents, career, feedback, webeditor-coutre, fission, cold calling
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Open-source group wants educational patent reversed
- I'm afraid you can't, it wouldinfringe mine on respiration. :DWhat sort of muppet would grant a patent like that ?I'm going to apply for one on programming, or may be communication using text.How can this be patented?The article cites
- Tags: patents, networking, software, Snak, patent, Open-Source Group, Communication Patent
- Discussion threads 2006-12-01
- Is open source getting to Microsoft?
- Microsoft’s Open Specification PromiseMicrosoft recently published the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, which indicates that the company promises not to sue anyone who creates software based on Web services technology covered by patents it owns. The move reflects how Microsoft has had to come to terms with open-source products and development...
- Tags: microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft MS-DOS, news, open source, open specification promise, patent, patents, security, Sonja Thompson, Stac
- Discussion threads 2006-09-15
- Software patents illegal...
- Software patents illegal...interesting article..http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39270929,00.htmand I just had to send the European Government this:I wish to inform you that I actually agree with your decision, that software patents are not to be issued or respected.A patent on software is identicle to a Patent on a cook book.Both are a collection of...
- Tags: software, software patent, patent
- Discussion threads 2006-05-25
- Tech firms to lobby for patent litigation reform
- All software patents should be declared voidPatents should be limited to physical designs. Imagine if someone centuries ago patented "a way of communicating by inscribing marks on paper" - everytime we wrote anything, we would have been liable for patent infringement.Software should only be subject to copyright, like books, paintings,...
- Tags: software, copyright, patents, patent, chromedome, it management, litigation
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- Microsoft gets 5,000th patent
- PatentsGod save the Queen and us from Microsoft. There are stifling the free software development. Any dirty trick found is good.PatentsAre you suggesting that patents are a bad thing?There are companies which hold far more than 5,000 patents. Are they too evil?Holding a patent doesn't stifle anyone in developing a...
- Tags: patent, microsoft greed, Patents, paul@..., it management, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-09
- Welcome to litigation land, 2006
- Patent reformThis case points to the urgent need for patent reform. Software patents and "methods and concepts" patents should be eliminated. Software can still be copyrighted to protect the intellectual property. I recommend www.groklaw.net for a full discussion on this critical issue.
- Tags: Schuylkill, patents, law, lawsuits, it management, litigation
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- The open-source programmer who means business
- Odd, I thoughtI was out in the middle of left field.Yet I find that people like Linus Torvalds, and Alan Cox share my opinions on DRM [ as applied to software ] and Software Patents.Really?My attitude is similar to theirs:Software patents are bad.DRM is usually bad, but not by simple...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), OPEN SOURCE, software, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-02-07
- Microsoft's file system patent upheld
- arghSo much for interoperability. Don't get caught using FAT filesystems without a Microsoft license, or you could be in a lot of trouble.Asinine.Patent LicensingWell they do hold the patent, so that is their right to demand payment for the use.No . . .It's their legal privilege. There's a...
- Tags: anticompetitive business, apotheon, file system, interoperability, Microsoft Corp., patent, patents, programming, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-01-12
- Microsoft sued over Excel
- More Patent Infrigement By Microsoft??One of the cases I have more knowledge about is MS taking and using the patented ergonomic "Natural Keyboard". I know it was invented by a professor at LSU.a universityBut the fight still seems to be in court at this time.Patent cases are tough. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-05-19
- Individual intellectual property does'nt exist
- Individual intelectual property does not exist.We are all standing on the shoulders of Giants.I am alive.Just like a child, like a flower, like a tree I want to grow.But I don't want to expand too fast, and get thinner and thinner than air.My body has stopped growing, not my mind,...
- Tags: Gunnar Klevedal, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2005-04-25
Additional Resources
- 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...
- Tags: Patent, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- 3G Cellular Standards and Patents
- At the beginning of 2004, the standards for Third Generation (3G) cellular technology were embodied in 483 Technical Specifications published by the two Partnership Projects: 3GPP and 3GPP2. Corporate members of the Partnership Projects are encouraged to identify intellectual property that is essential to implementing the standards. The authors have...
- Tags: Patent, Standards, Quality, 3G, Business Operations, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-06-13
- EU Council endorses patent bill
- RidiculousThe patents that seem to go thru are idiotic ones like Microsoft's 'a method for tabbing thru a form' or the one Microsoft fought: 'a method for embedding video' or something similar in web pages (see recent article, they almost lost $520 million, reversed on appeal). Patent offices don't...
- Tags: patent, software
- Discussion threads 2005-03-07
- Europe rejects patent proposal
- Good Good Good!!Software patents are out of control. They've been patenting things that 1) had already been done prior art such as 'a way to one-click purchase' or 'a way to embed graphics in a web page'. And depending on apparently retarded patent examiners who granted the patents...
- Tags: Dr Dij, it management, patent, software, software patents
- Discussion threads 2005-07-06
- Two cheers for intellectual-property law
- Benefit???The statement that we all benefit from software patents seems to me more than a bit 'speaking with forked tongue'. Microsoft owes its current size and success almost entirely to the non-existence of software patents at the time of its ini
- Tags: software, Freebird54, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2007-03-08
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