$30.4 billion, not $11.4 billion, in software patent damage to the economy
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| No matter how the number is calculated, the results are the same: needless,
| wasteful patent litigation that helps no one except attorneys.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9884399-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Microsoft, Visto settle patent dispute; no terms disclosed
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| Both companies will dismiss all legal claims, Visto said. The case revolved
| around the alleged infringement by Microsoft on three of Visto's mobile
| e-mail patents.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-23481215.htm
"If it [the timing of the donation] had anything to do with the antitrust case,
we would have told someone."
--Ms. Stonifer, director William H. Gates Foundation
Related:
My Dumb Software Patents
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| The first patent was provisionally filed in 2000 and has been "in process"
| for the last 8 years. Yes, I said 8 years. Many think that Software Patents
| are stupid. I conceptually agree with this statement. Having spent what seems
| like millions of hours constructing these, baby sitting them, defending them;
| it is really all wasted time and effort, at least in a conceptual sense.
| There is no way for a software engineer or system architect to have any idea
| what exists out there to either copy or avoid (whatever the motivation).
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http://falseprecision.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/my-dumb-softwar.html
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