2 month ago
wearehugh : Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags » Scrabbling for Legal Rationalism: No Copyright for Games
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5 month ago
wearehugh : Official Google Data APIs Blog: Google Data APIs patent license - not an april fools joke
jcgregorio : Official Google Data APIs Blog: Google Data APIs patent license
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11 month ago
Andy Baio : USPO rejects Amazon's one-click patent after reviewing blogger's prior art - Peter Calveley's persistent efforts were chronicled on his blog
deusx : igdmlgd: AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST - "In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. "
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15 month ago
deusx : A Patent Lie - New York Times - "As more and more lawsuits rock the industry, we should ask if software patents are stifling innovation. Bill Gates certainly thought so in 1991, even if he won’t admit it today."
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16 month ago
Isofarro : Outrageous - Mark's story about how he was effectively pressurised against his will into applying for a patent. Mark's unsettled me because its one of my fears of working for a US company with a known patent portfolio, particularly when I've created an idea that could
nelson : Patent shame - Mark shares his feelings about being caught up in the stupid US patent system
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim on the US patent system - "an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable"
deusx : Outrageous [dive into mark] - "It’s an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable. I’m ashamed to have been a part of it."
kaninka.net : Outrageous [dive into mark]
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16 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Four Words for Microsoft - Four Words for Microsoft: "Litigate or shut up."
deusx : ongoing · Four Words for Microsoft - "Litigate or shut up."
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18 month ago
jimray : Fake Steve really nails the idiocy of modern patent litigation - Some irony for sure, but he's right in that you're either growing or you're dying
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19 month ago
jimray : Patenting Life - Michael Chricton's impressively lucid critique of gene patents. After all that global warming inanity, good to see him making sense again.
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Microsoft patent 'immortal computing' - Doesn't stone tablets qualify as prior art?
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Software ain't patentable, damn it! - "Thus, this [Supreme] Court's precedent repeatedly sets out that software, which is nothing more than a set of instructions – an algorithm – to be performed by a computer in order to solve some mathematical problem, is subject matter that is
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20 month ago
deusx : Microsoft's RSS Patent Theft - "They're clearly aware that contributing to the community is important but they have no problem stabbing us in the back at the same time."
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deusx : Samba developer resigns from Novell - "The Microsoft patent agreement has put [Novell developers] outside the community and there is no positive aspect to that fact, and no way to make it so"
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21 month ago
Andy Baio : Google Patent Search - beats the crap out of the official patent search [via]
Rod Begbie : Google Patents - It's a bit wonky on its first night out, but this new Patent search from Google is pretty powerful, indexing the full text of all the patents. Only appears to hold granted patents though, not applications. [via] #
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23 month ago
jimray : What's wrong with software patents? | Free Software Magazine
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wearehugh : Cover Pages: Patents and Open Standards
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27 month ago
Rod Begbie : How To Swing - The United States Patent Office explains it all for you. - If I ever write a patent, I'm going to sneak in the phrase "The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell". [via] #
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29 month ago
jimray : United States Patent: 5,920,923 - God bless Penn Gillette
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29 month ago
Linkorama : In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent - "The moral of the story is that for a long time now the patent system has been misused," said Mitchell D. Kapor
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30 month ago
Linkorama : business model patents - i got the patent on the business model of suing other people who violate patents.
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deusx : Apple seeks controversial patents on use of RSS - The Social Software Weblog - "It looks like Apple has filed for patents on some uses of RSS."
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30 month ago
deusx : News feed viewer - United States Patent Application: 0050289147 - "Techniques for presenting and managing syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed." This is from Apple.
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30 month ago
deusx : News feed browser - United States Patent Application: 0050289468 - "Techniques for detecting, managing, and presenting syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed." Also from Apple.
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31 month ago
jimray : U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications - Fuckwits like this guy deserve nothing less than a bullet to the motherfucking brain
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31 month ago
Linkorama : U.S. Grants Patent For AJAX - “It’s kind of unbelievable that [the patent] has such a wide ranging use because it covers so many technologies,†says Bola Rotibi, a senior analyst at Ovum, an IT advisory firm in London. If the patent is enforced broadly, she says, â
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