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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Munich to press on with Linux switch
- Promoting FUDFlorian Mueller, chief executive of MySQL, is wither wrong or mis quoted whit his statement that "Linux violates 283 U.S. software patents". Linux POTENTIALLY violates 283 patents, just as any software including MS, potentially violates patents. Example, If I write software that transferes files I potentially violate...
- Tags: jgroetsema@..., Linux, patent
- Discussion threads 2004-12-20
- 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
- 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
- Software patents
- are they something to be encouraged?or something to be discouraged?why?I think they should be discouraged, as they hurt the quality of applications for the lifetime of the patent.with a patent, on software, it's more the idea than the specific application that is getting patented, this means you have a significant...
- Tags: software, Adobe PDF, patent, software patent
- Discussion threads 2005-02-21
- EasyPatents (exe)
- EasyPatents allows efficient searching, downloading and managing of existing US, European, national and worldwide patents. EasyPatents was created with simplicity in mind, no knowledge is needed to use the software. Patents can be organised in folders for quick retrieval and project based research.
- Tags: Patent, EasyPatents
- Software downloads 2007-01-18
- RIM was not enough: NTP Sues four major telcos for patent infringement
- Patent lawsI find these patents awarded on ideas and not on implementation are at the least frivolous and stifle creativity. We should patent only implementations of an idea. Most software patents are obvious and based on processes that have already been implemented in nature or in objects we use in...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., jpclermont900@..., patent, NTP
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Is OIN a good defense from copyright litigation?
- http://www.gnomedesktop.org/http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html[i]"OIN is the Open Invention Network. Prominent members include Red Hat, Sony, Novell, IBM, and Philips, etc. The idea behind OIN: throw a bunch of patents in a pool. Make those patents available to open source developers, and to companies who support open source developers.More importantly: pool those patents to...
- Tags: patent, linux, copyright, jdclyde, oin, jd-quick (formerly clyde), literary work, litigation
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- Experts say Microsoft's patent quest won't go far
- what Microsoft wantsQuoth the article:"[i]Microsoft said it released the tally--though not the 235 specific patents--in an effort to bring open-source companies to the table to hammer out intellectual property licensing deals similar to the one struck by Linux seller Novell in 2006. But industry experts said the declaration's implicit demand--that...
- Tags: apotheon, patent, industry expert, Microsoft Corp., industry
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- Non-Disruptive Backups and Migrations Enhances European Patent Protection and Management
- The European Patent Office grants European patents. The EPO carries out searches and substantive examinations on a steadily rising number of European patent applications and international applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The European Patent Office EPO needed to support up to 60 million patents documents and 800,000 patents...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Patent, Backup, Migration, European Patent Office, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Sony Faces Yet More Legal Issues
- Sony faces yet more legal issues...Sony seems to have been stepping on some patents lately, but is this just the sign of an industrywide flaw in the way we deal with patents? Big corporations typically work out licensing arrangements with each other behind closed doors, but don't always deal...
- Tags: Andy J. Moon, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-26
- Microsoft: Royalties or royal pain?
- In the most recent battle between open-source and proprietary software, Microsoft goes for the jugular by claiming that free and open-source software violates 235 of its patents. See the article from CNET Networks' News.com: "Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents." Here's an excerpt from the article: "In...
- Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, Open Source, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- PatentWrangler (exe)
- PatentWrangler is for individuals needing quick access to United States patents, published patent applications from the USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office, and European Patent Office. It's a solution that enables you to conveniently download patents and patent applications in PDF format at home, work, or on the road....
- Tags: Patent Application, Patent, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, PatentWrangler
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- Microsoft is "patent"ly afraid
- It came out today that Microsoft is now claiming that open source software breaks 235 of its patents. And, of course, it would seem on the surface that Microsoft wants that it again on the surface wants most: Money. But I think this whole thing is yet another smoke and...
- Tags: Windows, Open Source, Linux, Gpl, Get Jacked, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- NTP starts suing again
- Best known for extracting the whopping $612.5 million settlement from RIM, the makers of the BlackBerry, NTP has filed suit again. This time, the lawsuits are directed against AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless, alleging infringements of several mobile e-mail patents owned by NTP, a patent-holding...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Patent, NTP, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Ballmer attacks Linux on patent front
- Ballmer must be stupid; no one can be that ignorantMS keeps trying to spread the FUD with dumb press releases hoping to scare off people ignorant of their rights -- a la SCO's doomed lawsuit against IBM.SCO not only lost their main contention that Linux infringes on UNIX, they also...
- Tags: dhk, Linux, Microsoft Corp., patent, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-11-20
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