Lawyer: Xbox violated patent
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| Microsoft Corp. violated a patent to produce its Xbox video game player, a
| lawyer for Alcatel-Lucent SA told a federal jury.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/360167_msftalcatel23.html
How to Make a Patent Market
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| The result? Willing licensors and licensees can't find each other. Patent
| auctions often fizzle, because without a thick market - one with an array of
| buyers and sellers bidding on price - no one can know whether they are
| getting a steal or being had. When parties do license patents, the prices are
| (to the extent we can tell) all over the map. And the rest of the world has
| no idea what those prices are. This in turn means that courts lack adequate
| benchmarks to determine a ¿reasonable royalty¿ when companies
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1012726
Andy Updegrove (about the above):
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| Department of Strange Bedfellows: What do Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
| Professor and patent reform advocate, and Nathan Myrhvold, former Microsoft
| CTO and president of Intellectual Ventures, a patent aggregator (another name
| rhymes with Skoll!) have in common? Apparently, a proposal to publicly
| register patent licensing terms, to accomplish a variety of purposes. Details
| are below.
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Microsoft breeds trolls.
Related:
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Top Ten Patent Trolls of 2007
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| 3. Acacia. I didn't start tracking Acacia carefully until the summer. But
| still, on my blog I have reported on over two dozen lawsuits brought by
| Acacia this year, against more than 235 defendants. That's in addition to the
| over 200 lawsuits Acacia filed in previous years against hundreds and
| hundreds of defendants. And that's not including the two lawsuits (at least)
| Acacia has filed in December against 20 more defendants (yes, Acacia, I'm
| watching you). Acacia's business model, as a publicly traded company, is to
| accumulate patents and sue as many companies as possible in order to extract
| licenses. They have a market cap of over 275 million - that pays for a lot of
| lawsuits. Unlike other trolls, Acacia tends to not focus on one court in
| particular, although they have sampled the Eastern District of Texas more
| this year than in the past.
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http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-ten-patent-trolls-of-2007.html
Yahoo Patent Troll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFUSHwRXJE
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
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| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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