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Dilithium Licenses Patents
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| "H.324 Annex K (aka MONA) is the only standardized technology that achieves
| video session setup times close to one second, similar to voice calls. This
| is very important for the customer experience in video calling and video
| value added services." said Dr. Marwan Jabri, Founder and CTO, Dilithium
| Networks. Dilithium MONA patents cover the fundamental operations of MONA and
| are being licensed on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis.
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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=162797
FatPipe Networks Is Granted a 6th Patent Focusing on WAN/Internet Business
Continuity via Disparate Networks
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| FatPipe Networks(TM), the inventor and multiple patents holder of WAN
| optimization, redundancy and security products, announced today that it has
| successfully secured its sixth patent. The U.S. Patent No. 7,406,048 protects
| the "tools and techniques for directing packets over multiple parallel
| disparate networks, based on address and other criteria."
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http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/iw/080903/0429917.html
Avistar battles for its lifeblood patents and turnaround strategy
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| Attempting a turnaround, Avistar Communications Corp. (DEMO 08) is trying to
| carve out an identity in the video conferencing world for a new marketing
| concept it calls "unified communications," while fending off hostile actions
| by Microsoft Corp., which is challenging Avistar's lifeblood - its patents.
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| Microsoft's unexpected challenge "has caused absolute havoc for us," said
| Simon Moss, who joined Avistar as CEO last January. "Some of the challenges
| have absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft technology." Beyond that, Moss
| sites a mutual confidentiality agreement that the two companies signed, which
| prevents them from discussing specifics of the challenge. Meanwhile, "we're
| continuing our dialog," Moss said.
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http://www.demo.com/community/?q=node/185247
Recent:
Say 'No' to software patents
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| Nothing could be further from the truth. As explained above, software patents
| are bad for everyone other than large companies. Each software patent is a
| potential mine in the path to progress for small software companies. Allowing
| software patents in the country will be like strewing the path with mines.
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http://infochangeindia.org/200808137267/Technology/Analysis/Say-No-to-software-patents.html
“Say No To Software Patents” Campaign in Bangalore
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| The Free Software User’s Group, Bangalore is co-ordinating a campaign to “Say
| No To Software Patents” in India.
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http://pramode.net/2008/08/14/say-no-to-software-patents-campaign-in-bangalore/
Latha Jishnu: The mouse that bit Microsoft
PATENTLY ABSURD
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| Here’s what Gates wrote in an office memorandum in 1991. “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. . . I feel certain that some large company will patent some
| obvious thing related to interface, object orientation, algorithm,
| application extension or other crucial technique.”
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| This was the year after Microsoft launched Windows 3.0, the first of its new
| operating systems that would become hugely popular across the world. Yet,
| three years down the line, Microsoft had changed from a kitten that was
| content with copyright protection to an aggressive patents tiger. In 1991,
| Microsoft had filed fewer than 50 patent applications whereas last year it
| was awarded 1,637 patents, almost a 12 per cent increase in the number of
| patents it received in 2006. According to IFI Patent Intelligence, the rise
| in Microsoft’s patents portfolio bucked the general trend in 2007 when the
| number of patents issued by the US Patents and Trademark Office dipped by 10
| per cent. Apparently several thousand of the company’s filings are still
| pending.
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| All this may prompt the reader to conclude that there is indeed a direct
| correlation between IPR and growth — and wealth — as the company claims. Not
| true, says Mark H Webbink, a US Supreme Court lawyer who is a recognised
| voice on IT issues. Charting the company’s revenues, R&D spending and patent
| filings from 1985 onwards, he shows that the spike in patent filings occurred
| long after the Microsoft “had become well established and was being
| investigated for its monopolistic practices”. Webbink contends that patents
| did not spur the launch and rapid growth of the mass market software
| industry. On the other hand, patents have become a threat to software
| innovation, he warns.
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http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=330566
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