Google: Kill all the patent trolls
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| Google's head of patents believes the U.S. patent system is "in crisis".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/02/google_calls_for_us_patent_reform/
RealNetworks Case Highlights Sea-Change In Patent Law
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| "I can tell you that as a result of the KSR decision, we are receiving new
| training to determine how we process patent applications," Locker
| said. "Right now it's an open question as to how it will impact us. But it
| very well may mean that it will be a lot tougher for people to get patents."
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3691876
Microsoft and Xen and Patent Leadership
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| A quick check of the USPTO patent database can give us a initial inexact feel
| for the space:
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| * Patents with VMWare as the assignee (22)
| * Patents with Microsoft as the assignee (7117)
| * Patents with Microsoft as the assignee and containing
| "virtualization" (20)
| * Patents with Advanced Micro Devices and containing
| "virtualization" (4)
| * Patents with International Business Machines and
| containing "virtualization" (130) !!!
| * Patents with SWSoft as assignee and containing "virtualization" (2)
| * Patents with SWSoft as assignee [SWSoft makes Parallels] (6)
| * Patents with Intel as assignee and containing "virtualization" (100)
|
| [...]
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| To date their competitors keep rolling positional hand grenades out into the
| field and the Microsoft legal team feels obliged to leap on every one of
| them. Mention the GPL and the Microsoft legal team runs screaming with their
| hair ON FIRE (to borrow a phrase from Eben Moglen's great Ubuntu Live
| keynote.)
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/07/microsoft-and-x.htmle
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