Sprint Nextel, Acacia unit settle patent suit
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| A subsidiary of Acacia Research Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. have settled a
| lawsuit alleging that Sprint Nextel had infringed on patents for technology
| used to display mobile vehicle information on maps.
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http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/local-news/kansascity/2008/01/02/sprint-nextel-acacia-unit-settle-patent-suit
Patently busy: IBM filing 10 patents/day in technology
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| A recent article in Spectrum, the online magazine of the Institute of
| Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), rated companies in nine
| categories (Aerospace and Defense, Computer Peripherals and Storage, Computer
| Systems and Software, Electronics, Medical Equipment, Semiconductor Equipment
| Manufacturing, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Telecom Equipment, and Telecom
| Services) by the number and strength of patents that they received over the
| last year for which there was complete data, 2006.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080101-patently-busy-ibm-filing10-patentsday-in-technology.html
Related:
When Patents Threaten Science
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| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
| nature, or mathematical formulas.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
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| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
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| [...]
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| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
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| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
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