Smartphones Patented... Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute After Patent Issued
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| This past Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent on "a
| mobile entertainment and communication device." Reading the patent, you
| realize it describes the quite common smartphone. It's a patent for a mobile
| phone with removable storage, an internet connection, a camera and the
| ability to download audio or video files.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080124/16382062.shtml
And later on they wonder why the economy collapses...
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J. Carl Cooper and Technology Licensing Corporation
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| Now I have. In numerous court filings, Technology Licensing Corp. (not to be
| confused with the totally separate California patent licensing shop,
| Technology Licensing Company -- more on them another day) admits it is a
| shell for J. Carl Cooper. TLC first started working with TechSearch back in
| the day, and now Acacia since the big Acacia-TechSearch transaction.
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| Who is J. Carl Cooper, anyway? For one, he is a registered patent agent. He
| also sometimes testifies as an expert in patent litigation. He used to be
| affiliated with the Los Gatos, California company Pixel Instruments Corp.,
| but now has moved to the Lake Tahoe area. Similarly, Technology Licensing,
| once located at the home offices of Pixel in Los Gatos, has moved to Carson
| City, Nevada.
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| This article on Ray Niro (titled, by someone else, "Meet the Original Patent
| Troll") states that Cooper came to Niro through an introduction made by
| Anthony O. Brown of TechSearch. The article claims that Niro has netted over
| $50 million for Cooper.
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http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2008/01/j-carl-cooper-and-technology-licensing.html
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
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.
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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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