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It's Not About Being First... It's About Market Adoption
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| We've discussed the difference between "invention" (doing something new)
| and "innovation" (finding a new successful market) before, and it's resulted
| in some long and occasionally contentious discussions. Fred Wilson put up a
| post recently where he looked at a series of product "success" stories, and
| tried to figure out what was the key to success. In each one, he noted that
| the product enabled people to do stuff in a different way -- but one of the
| key findings, was that they all had something else in common: being drop dead
| simple, leading to much greater adoption
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090610/2158405194.shtml
Judge tosses Nintendo Wii patent suit
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| Since the launch of the Wii, Nintendo has been the subject of no fewer than
| 15 patent-related lawsuits. While many of those suits are still winding their
| way through the courts, Nintendo on Thursday issued a statement touting
| victory over Guardian Media Technologies in one of the more recent patent
| suits.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10263131-1.html
Recent:
Another Example Of Patents Putting Lives At Risk
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| Given that Shafer refused to live up to the terms of the deal that he had
| never agreed to in the first place, ABL moved forward and sued Shafer
| directly, and that case is now ongoing -- even as Shafer hopes to invalidate
| the patent through the Patent Office itself. The whole thing is yet another
| story of how patents are being used to stifle innovation -- and sometimes put
| lives at risk. It's tragic that we've been seeing so many such stories
| lately.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090610/2202565196.shtml
Do Patents On Your Website Make You Liable For False Marking?
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| One of the things that tends to keep patent lawsuits in check between two
| larger competing companies is the "patent nuclear war" scenario -- which is
| that if one company sues the other for patent infringement, the latter
| company often can hit back with an equal number of infringement charges.
| Thus, the incentives are for companies to stockpile lots of patents, but not
| necessarily use them... though it does happen occasionally.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090606/1139255152.shtml
harmfulpatents.org
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| More than 20 years after medical expert systems were first developed, the
| USPTO issued two patents simply on the concept of using a computer to help
| physicians choose medical treatments. A company that purchased these patents
| claims that "the diagnosis and treatment of most chronic diseases will fall
| under the claims of these patents." Already it has filed patent infringement
| suits against seven companies in three years and it threatened to sue a
| university for hosting a freely available HIV database. Perhaps most
| startling of all, that same university -- where much of the seminal research
| on expert systems took place -- entered into a licensing agreement intended
| to limit the use of the HIV database, which had been created by one of its
| own faculty.
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http://www.harmfulpatents.org/
Do Patents Kill? A Strange Twist in the Ramkumar vs Samsung Saga
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| A number of papers report that a death in Chennai could be connected with the
| ongoing Ramkumar vs Samsung (and others) patent litigation, a litigation that
| we have been tracking on this blog.
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http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2009/05/do-patents-kill-strange-twist-in.html
Related:
Patents Over Patients
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| Potential anticancer drugs should be judged on their scientific merit,
| not on their patentability.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/opinion/01moss.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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