Steve Jobs "nicked my battery design"
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| He apparently contacted Apple with a request for the California firm to
| change its product or else to license the patent.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41630
Week in review: Patent woes
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| After getting through funding, research and development, marketing
| strategies, and getting your product to consumers, here comes the hard part:
| navigating the patent storm.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6201874.html
Related:
In Microsoft Patent App, TV Watches You
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| In a just-published patent application for delivering Advertising that is
| relevant to a person, nine Microsoft inventors spell out plans for using
| cameras, remote controls and biometric sensors...
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070730/162255.shtml
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
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