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Oprah Sued For Patent Infringement Over Her Book Club
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| Joe Mullin is back to let us know about the latest patent insanity, starting
| with a post about a whole bunch of patent infringement lawsuits based on
| patents held by Scott Harris. You may recall Harris because he was a lawyer
| for a big law firm, but was quietly filing patents on the side, and then
| apparently working out deals whereby other companies licensed those patents
| to be used in infringement lawsuits against big companies -- including
| companies represented by the very same firm Harris worked for.
|
| [...]
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| ow, my critics will be the first to point out that I'm no patent attorney,
| but reading over the patent, it certainly appears to be a patent on
| displaying a book online. How is that possibly patentable material?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090106/0130383296.shtml
Recent:
Microsoft, Apple, and Google sued for file preview features!
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| Indiana based Cygnus Systems has filed a lawsuit against the three giants
| Microsoft, Apple and Google claiming that they are infringing on a patent
| owned by them.
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| The patent is related to file preview technology which gives the user a view
| of a file before it is opened.
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http://news.techwhack.com/9554-cygnus-systems
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview
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| A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and
| Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature
| used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the
| files before they are opened.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/156048/google_apple_microsoft_sued_over_file_preview.html
Economist Critic of Software Patents gets Nobel Prize
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| The FFII congratulates Eric S. Maskin, an economist who has long criticised
| the patenting of software, for receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics.
| Prof. Maskin and two colleagues receive the Prize for research into the
| optimal design of economic mechanisms. By applying his theory to the IT
| sector, Maskin demonstrated "that in such a dynamic industry, patent
| protection may reduce overall innovation and welfare."
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Economist_Critic_of_Software_Patents_gets_Nobel_Prize
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
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| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
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