US Patent Office decimates Amazon's 1-Click Patent
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| Most of the claims in Amazon's controversial patent for shopping with a
| single mouse click have been rejected by the US Patent Office. It follows a
| campaign by a New Zealander who filed evidence of prior art with funding from
| readers of his blog.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17/amazon_1-click_patent_ruling/
Microsoft Patenting the iPhone
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| Pictured here is Microsoft's great new patent application on a portable
| touchscreen device's user interface, refiled within days of a certain
| cellphone going on sale. Look familiar?
|
| [...]
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| Either that, or they're jokes.
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/microsoft-paten.html
More patent BS:
RIM settles SureType patent infringement spat
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| Research In Motion (RIM) has reached an agreement with Eatoni Ergonomics, a
| little-known developer of predictive text input software for mobile devices,
| who claimed the Canadian company's BlackBerry incorporated technology it had
| no right to use.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/11/rim_settles_with_eatoni/
Related:
White House opposes tech-backed patent bill
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| The Bush administration argues that such an approach "would introduce new
| complications and risks reducing incentives to innovate."
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773753-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| 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
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
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