Fixing a broken patent system
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| It costs millions of dollars in litigation fees to show that a patent should
| not have been granted, and most big corporations have learned that the hard
| way.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9595_22-6212615.html
Vonage settles patent litigation with Klausner
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| Internet phone company Vonage Holdings settled a patent lawsuit filed by
| Klausner Technologies, the privately held company specializing in
| voice-messaging technology said Thursday. Klausner said it granted Vonage a
| patent license related to voice messaging. It did not disclose any financial
| terms of the settlement.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2110-1035_22-6213472.html
Related:
The real issue in the software patent fight
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| Good software is complicated, and patent law has no way to deal with this
| complexity.
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| Patent law is designed to protect unique inventions, better mousetraps. You
| can’t patent the idea of trapping mice, and you have to disclose how you trap
| the mice so other mousetrap makers can seek new ways to trap the mice.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1552
The EC's New Microsoft Rules
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| Second, the case also liberalizes EU competition law in several important
| areas. Prior to Microsoft, compulsory licensing of intellectual property
| rights was seen by the European Court as a very narrow remedy in the EU, to
| be strictly and rarely applied.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2007/tc2007109_514747.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
CEOs neglect patent portfolios, says M'soft exec
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| "Other than Bill Gates, I don't know of any high tech CEO that sits down to
| review the company's IP portfolio," said Phelps, who ran IBM's IP business
| before joining Microsoft four years ago.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft has struck six deals with open source companies, the biggest a
| recent deal with Novell, and more such deals are yet to come. In the past 18
| months, Microsoft has spent a whopping $1.4 billion acquiring intellectual
| property of various sorts, Phelps said.
|
| "The great ideas in technology will increasingly come from outside corporate
| labs," he said. "To me it doesn't make a difference if you got your portfolio
| through R&D or through buying it," he added.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202403071
Microsoft patents BlueJ
http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21
A Patent Lie
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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
Bill Gates and other communists
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| ...Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols
| anyone can implement is communism...
|
| ...Mr. Gates' secret is out now--he too was a "communist;" he, too,
| recognized that software patents were harmful-until Microsoft
| became one of these giants...
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http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?part=rss&tag=5575731&subj=news.1071.20
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