__/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 29 March 2007 14:12 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Tech companies pile on patents, complain about clutter
>>
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>> | When a Microsoft Corp. patent application for educational technology
>> | appeared in January, there was one problem: the idea had already
>> | been developed as "BlueJ" nine years earlier, and by academics
>> | with no connection to the software behemoth.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/tech-companies-pile-patents-complain/story.aspx?guid=%7BD8990A9C%2D2DF2%2D4893%2DA75F%2D488A6896D3EC%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
>> http://tinyurl.com/3bujne
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> So, MS get this far, find someone else already has this technology (or is
> it really just an idea this time?) in place. Will they say 'Great, saves us
> some work we'll just rent yours'? Or will they go off and change it enough
> to make it look like a different idea so comes under a new patent? Or will
> they dump it because they is a word that they have difficulty with?
>
> Does anyone want to take bets?
>
> In Linux you come up with an idea, do a search on sourceforge. If it is a
> new idea then go ahead. If it turns out someone else already thought about
> it then you can simply add your particular bent on the idea to the others
> on that team.
>
> It's called 'Sharing', please write that word down in your jotter for
> refference. Then try the word out, in private at first, but later when you
> feel more confident try it out on someone in the next office cubicle.
Even drag companies see the potential in this concept.
I found the following amusing:
System, method and program product for community review of documents
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| Abstract: A system, method and program product for providing for
| the review of documents by a community...
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http://www.patentdebate.com/PATAPP/20060218491?scache=22881039&spg=1
Is USPTO patenting its own system to defend its territory? Amazing, isn't it?
Worse than Blackboard's junk patent. Let them troll the system and waste
their money...
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