Apple, Acer, Dell, Gateway sued over media patent
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| The firm alleges the companies have breached patent 7,009,655B2 - catchily
| titled "method and system for direct recording of video information onto a
| disk medium".
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42100
Novell settled a lawsuit by a troll just days ago. A company that's only a
portfolio and investors with portfolio for this patent portfolio. All paper,
no products.
Here's a new one from Google:
Google wants to patent mobile commerce
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| Google owes its success to putting advertising into parts of our lives where
| no one has ever put adverts before. Now a new patent illustrates the extent
| of its ambitions.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/03/google_mobile_patent/
Related and recent:
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
Broadcom Reaps Patent Suit Benefits
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| The chipmaker is snaring Qualcomm customers before the patent infringement
| ruling is final, as wireless players scramble amid supply worries
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| [...]
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| "Several [manufacturers] have been pushing Broadcom and Microsoft to build
| this development center," says John Starkweather, general manager of mobile
| communications at Microsoft. He adds that, later this year, a major
| manufacturer will release a Windows Mobile device based on a Broadcom
| baseband chip.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc20070826_053750.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
EFF Challenges Bogus Patent on Internet Subdomains
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is challenging a bogus patent on
| Internet subdomains that has been used to threaten small businesses and
| innovators.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/11300/eff-challenges-bogus-patent-internet-subdomains
Old:
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
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