New Patentable Idea: A Way to Invalidate Vague Patents
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| The death of business method patents could be felt strongest in Silicon
| Valley, where a first step of many entrepreneurs is to retreat with lawyers
| to start patenting defensible business ideas. It could also affect patent
| acquisition firms such as Intellectual Ventures, a firm funded by major
| technology companies such Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple and Nokia, that is
| aggressively accumulating patent portfolios.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/new-patentable-idea-a-way-to-invalidate-vague-patents/index.html?ref=technology
Eliminating s***e like this:
Starhome Granted Patent for Intelligent Border Roaming
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| Starhome, which provides roaming services and converged solutions, has
| revealed that it has been granted a patent in the US (No. 7 333 808) for it’s
| Intelligent Border Roaming technology. The patent is based on Starhome’s
| service node architecture for controlling and steering border roaming, which
| prevents home network subscribers from inadvertently registering to
| cross-border foreign networks with strong coverage.
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http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2008/03/starhome-grante.html
Related:
More Bad News at Tax Time?
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| The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new rules that would pull within
| its orbit any software patent that affects taxes, likely choking innovation.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23335842/
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