GraphOn files patent infringement suit against Yahoo, five others
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| GraphOn Corp. said Monday it filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement
| against Yahoo Inc., Classified Ventures LLC, IAC/InterActiveCorp., Match.com,
| eHarmony.com and CareerBuilder LLC.
|
| Santa Cruz-based GraphOn (OTCBB:GOJO) said the complaint, filed in U.S.
| District Court in the Eastern Distict of Texas, claims the companies
| infringed its patents covering a method of maintaining an automated and
| network-accessible database.
|
| The suit alleges the companies infringe the GraphOn patents on each of their
| Web sites, and seeks permanent injunctive relief along with unspecified
| damages.
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http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/03/10/daily7.html?ana=yfcpc
T-Mobile USA, U.S. Cellular, Virgin Mobile USA and Helio sued over patent
infringement
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| Intellect Wireless Inc. has sued T-Mobile USA Inc., U.S. Cellular Corp.,
| Virgin Mobile USA Inc. and Helio Inc. in federal court in Chicago, accusing
| the companies of infringing wireless image messaging patents.
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http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/FREE/223823901
Related:
Are Patents Headed For Extinction?
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| Successful free enterprise requires an effective system of property ownership
| rights. Economists like Hernando de Soto believe that such rights are the
| underpinning of capitalism and explain how for decades America's strong
| patent system has fostered economic growth and innovation in the face of
| intensifying international competition. Although many factory jobs have moved
| overseas, knowledge workers have enjoyed improved living standards in the
| United States.
|
| That picture will change for the worse if the Patent Reform Act of 2007
| (S.1145), now being considered by the Senate, is enacted in its present form.
| This bill, together with two recent patent-unfriendly Supreme Court rulings,
| represents one of the worst assaults on intellectual property protection in
| the 218-year history of our patent system.
|
| [...]
|
| Joe Kiani is the founder and CEO of Irvine, Calif.-based Masimo.
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http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/22/patent-laws-kiani-oped-cx_jki_0225patent.html?partner=yahootix
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
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.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| 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
|
| [...]
|
| 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
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
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