Advertising that is relevant to a person - classic case of patent trolling
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| Patent application Advertising that is relevant to a person just filed by
| Microsoft is a splendid example of patent abuse or patent trolling.
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http://www.ventureitch.com/?p=372
Is the U.S. patent system in crisis? Apple, Google patent czars disagree
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| Chip Lutton, Apple chief patent counsel, said at a conference at
| Stanford University that the United States patent system is not
| broken and he's not sure there's a crisis.
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http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/08/apple-google-pa.html
IBM is swapping.
Time Warner and IBM Enter Patent Cross-License Agreement
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| Patent cross-licenses support one of the basic reasons for granting
| patents -- sharing information about new inventions -- and give companies
| greater freedom to innovate.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070802/0285196.html
Freedom? Innovate? Maybe if you're a multi-billion dollar beast,
Related:
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
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| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
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| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
|
| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
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