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Google Sued Over Browser
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| Google's "Chrome Browser" violates a patent, Aloft Media claims in Federal
| Court. Google announced the launch of its Chrome Browser on Sept. 1. Aloft
| claims it patented its "Network browser window with adjacent identifier
| selector interface for strong Web content" in March 2007.
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http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/11/20/Google_Sued_Over_Browser.htm
Zilka & Kotab, a.k.a. Aloft Media, file patent lawsuit against Google's Chrome
browser; the latest of many.
http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2008/11/zilka-kotab-aloft-media.html
Aloft Media, LLC v. Google, Inc.
http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/texas/txedce/6:2008cv00440/112988/
Recent:
Software Method Claims: Bilski in light of Benson
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| It is important to remember that the Supreme Court's decision in Gottschalk
| v. Benson is still controlling law. In that 1972 decision, the Supreme Court
| held unpatentable a method of converting a signal from "binary coded decimal"
| into "binary." The Benson method operates by using a "reentrant shift
| register" – a particular electronic memory circuit of the day. The rejected
| claim reads as follows:
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| [...]
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| Thus under Bilski/Benson, tying a software algorithm to particular computer
| hardware may well be unpatentable subject matter if the patent would still
| preclude all practical uses of the otherwise unpatentable algorithm.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/11/software-method.html
Economist Critic of Software Patents gets Nobel Prize
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| The FFII congratulates Eric S. Maskin, an economist who has long criticised
| the patenting of software, for receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics.
| Prof. Maskin and two colleagues receive the Prize for research into the
| optimal design of economic mechanisms. By applying his theory to the IT
| sector, Maskin demonstrated "that in such a dynamic industry, patent
| protection may reduce overall innovation and welfare."
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Economist_Critic_of_Software_Patents_gets_Nobel_Prize
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
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| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
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