Microsoft, Eolas settle patent dispute
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| Microsoft has settled a long-running and expensive lawsuit with Eolas
| Technologies, a start-up backed by the University of California that alleged
| Internet Explorer infringed a patent.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9769483-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
CCIA Praises Patent Court’s Reversal on “Willfulness”
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| “The risk of willful infringement has been a particular problem in the IT
| sector, where there are vast number of patents, many of which are junk. Legal
| departments tell engineers not to read patents because of the risk of willful
| infringement, and the quality is so low that engineers are happy to comply.”
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http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/publish/news/CCIA_Praises_Patent_Court_s_Reversal_on_Willfulness.shtml
CCIA Applauds New Patent Office Rules
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| “The PTO is trying to undo some problems of its creation, such as the “help
| customers get patents” philosophy of the 1990s,” said Black, “but the present
| Undersecretary and his staff deserve credit for tackling some issues that
| they inherited. They have had to confront fierce opposition from a patent bar
| that resents any limitations on their freedom to manipulate the application
| process.”
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http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/publish/news/CCIA_Applauds_New_Patent_Office_Rules.shtml
Yesterday:
Microsoft, IBM Sued over Patent Infringement
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| JuxtaComm also has provisional patents for a system and method of managing
| and updating data from a number of sources for a project, and for a system
| and method of controlling and monitoring an application in a network—
| methodologies and software likely used by any number of software vendors.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2177341,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Related:
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
(Gates' anti-Linux patent plot)
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