Troll Wars
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| Some interesting developments in the Global Patent Holdings litigation going
| on in Nevada (against Zappos) and Florida (against Boca Resort). The long sad
| story is below, but for those with a short attention span, here is the
| abbreviated version: Essentially, Global Patent Holdings, hurting that Boca
| Resort called it a patent troll, said "oh yeah, GPH is really an 80-year-old
| and a 70-year-old in a wheelchair - who you callin' troll, son of Enron?"
| Meanwhile, at the same time in Nevada, GPH told the court that it, not the
| inventors, owned the rights to the patents. Boca Resort replied by
| saying, "Hey Niro, you started it - you were the one who wrote the article
| saying you're a patent troll anyway. And by the way, if the inventors have a
| stake, then where's the real party in interest? Dismiss this case, your
| honor!"
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http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2008/02/troll-wars.html
[Syslog] Huwai junk patent predating on syslog and BEEP now online
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| Thanks Huwaii and Miao for this great
| invention and stealing my work. I really appreciate it. I bet Marshall
| T. Rose will also be delighted.
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http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/syslog/current/msg01823.html
There's little hope for little justice:
CAFC considers whether to revisit State Street
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| The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) could reconsider its
| own landmark decision on business method patents after ordering an en banc
| hearing in an appeal from the USPTO
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http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1873762
Related:
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
Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'
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| The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and
| unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local
| executive for Sun Microsystems.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Sun-exec-accuses-Microsoft-of-patent-terrorism-/0,130061733,339280437,00.htm
Microsoft, the art of Corporate Terrorism.
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| Microsoft, no longer the technological leader in the Computer Desktop
| market, is taking on a terrorist role in its attempt remain in power
| at all costs. (see the link to the CNN story below)
|
| The tactic is intended to frighten current, and would be, free
| software users away from products that Microsoft just can't compete
| with. It's not a new tactic, but for the first time desperation is
| beginning to show.
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http://sweetcomputing.com/index.php?wiki=Microsoft_Terrorism
Convicted Monopolist Terrorizes Software Industry
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| That headline is designed to grab your attention. Sensationalistic as
| it may be, it also happens to be true, if what you mean by 'terrorize'
| is to provoke fear.
|
| If you've been following the presidential race in the United States,
| you know the present crop of candidates have been exploiting the fear
| of the American people as they never have before in the history of
| the country.
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http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/ms_threats.html
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
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.
|
| 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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