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Microsoft Innovation For Sale
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| Could Microsoft's ability to produce intellectual property be the company's
| future salvation? A few weeks ago I complained that Microsoft wasn't
| innovating. Yet the book Burning the Ships talks of Microsoft's burgeoning
| intellectual property treasure chest. How can both be true?
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/microsoft_innov.html;jsessionid=3HMFYKSKAMKXQQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN
Microsoft sued over dynamic web page generation
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| A case started in a Texas district court at the end of May 2009, with
| Microsoft being sued for allegedly breaching two patents.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42673/118/
Microsoft Sued Over Dynamic Web Page Technology
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| Parallel Networks filed suit late last week in the U.S. District Court for
| the Eastern District of Texas over two patents, United States Patent Nos.
| 5,894,554 and 6,415,335 B1. The company was granted the patents in 1999 and
| 2002, respectively, according to the court filing.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165954/microsoft_sued_over_dynamic_web_page_technology.html
VirnetX Hires McKool Smith to Lead Litigation Efforts Against Microsoft
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| VirnetX Holding Corporation (NYSE Amex: VHC), a secure real-time
| communications and collaboration technology company, today announced that it
| has hired the law firm of McKool Smith to lead its ongoing litigation efforts
| in its patent infringement suit against Microsoft Corporation.
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| The suit against Microsoft was filed in the United States District Court for
| the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division on February 15, 2007. In the
| suit VirnetX claims Microsoft infringes on three of its patents and seeks
| both damages and injunctive relief. In June 2008, Microsoft's Motion to
| Dismiss was denied while VirnetX's subsequent motion to amend infringement
| contentions was granted. On February 17, 2009, a "Markman" hearing on claim
| construction was conducted and the Company is currently awaiting the Court's
| order.
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http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-11-2009/0005042205&EDATE=
Microsoft Trying to Patent Parallel Processing
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| theodp writes "Microsoft may have been a Johnny-come-lately when it comes to
| parallel programming, but that's not stopping the software giant from trying
| to patent it. This week, the USPTO revealed that Microsoft has three
| additional parallel-processing patents pending — 1. Partitioning and
| Repartitioning for Data Parallel Operations, 2. Data Parallel Searching, and
| 3. Data Parallel Production and Consumption. Informing the USPTO
| that 'Software programs have been written to run sequentially since the
| beginning days of software development,' Microsoft adds there's been
| a '[recent] shift away from sequential execution toward parallel execution.'
| Before they grant the patents, let's hope the USPTO gets a second opinion on
| the novelty of Microsoft's parallel-processing patent claims."
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http://slashdot.org/submission/1015125/Microsoft-Trying-to-Patent-Parallel-Processing
Microsoft IP Ventures Launches Ireland's Latest Tech Startup: InishTech
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-09-2009/0005040626&EDATE=
Microsoft spins out Irish start-up for anti-piracy service
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/170769.asp
Microsoft Uses IP Unit To Spin Off Business
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200906090924DOWJONESDJONLINE000344_FORTUNE5.htm
Microsoft sheds its third-party anti-piracy technology
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3016
Microsoft Spins Out Irish Firm InishTech
http://www.seattlepi.com/xconomy/407017_xconomy28620.html
Irish Startup Takes Over Microsoft's Code-protection Scheme
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166349/irish_startup_takes_over_microsofts_codeprotection_scheme.html
InishTech latest Enterprise Ireland start-up
http://www.rte.ie/business/2009/0609/inishtech.html
Microsoft spins off SLP services business
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-microsoft-spins-off-slp-services-business-/2009/06/11/4221059.htm
Microsoft licenses an entire division to Irish tech start-up
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/13139/business/inishtech-in-microsoft-deal
Irish Startup Reboots Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services Unit
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/irish-startup-reboots-microsoft-software-licensing-and-protection-services-unit/
Microsoft Licenses Antipiracy Technology to InishTech
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Licenses-Antipiracy-Technology-to-InishTech-113691.shtml
Microsoft IP Ventures Program Looks to Irish Entrepreneurs to Lead New Company
http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39601&Itemid=43
InishTech launched as a new Irish start-up to handle Microsoft's software
licensing and protection services
http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1016875.shtml
Recent:
“INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”:
A LIBERTARIAN CRITIQUE
http://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/intellectual-property-a-libertarian-critique.pdf
Fashion Industry Repeats Software's Mistakes
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| Software patents are stupid on both theoretical and practical grounds. Since
| software is just algorithms - that is, maths - software patents are
| intellectual monopolies on pure knowledge. Practically, they make coding
| almost impossible, since software patents have been given for so many trivial
| and common programming techniques.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/fashion-industry-repeats-softwares.html
New fashion copyright bill will let big companies own public domain designs and
bury young, indie designers in legal costs
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/06/new-fashion-copyrigh.html
Canadian Patent Appeal Board Rules Against Business Method Patents
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4034/135/
Canadian Patent Office Rejects Software And Business Model Patents
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090606/1138105151.shtml
Patent-Litigation Weekly: The Photo-Sharing Files
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| Creating and sharing images—drawings, paintings, photographs—are among the
| most ancient of human activities, and throughout history, technology that
| makes that sharing possible has been embraced as rapidly as it appears.
| Today, that technology takes the form of software applications for computers
| and cell phones.
|
| That all helps explain why the collection of scrappy entrepreneurs who run
| small and medium-sized photo-sharing companies didn’t always think about
| patents as they built up their businesses.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2009/05/patentlitigation-weekly-the-photosharing-files.html
Rambus drops (some) Nvidia allegations
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| Rambus is dropping allegations against Nvidia relating to four of nine
| patents the IP chip firm claims are being infringed by GeForce graphics
| processors and nForce chipsets.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/rambus_asks_itc_to_drop_4_of_9_patents_in_complaint/
Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
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| Conversely, there is widespread anecdotal evidence that the act created a
| mind-set among many researchers that their knowledge represents a potential
| goldmine not to be shared with potential competitors (i.e. those working in
| other universities) - at least until it has been protected by a patent
| application.
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| Similarly, the act has led to a flood of “upstream” patents on basic
| scientific knowledge, leading to what some commentators describe as a
| virtually impenetrable “patent thicket” blocking small-scale inventors from
| marketing their products. For example, restrictive software patents limit
| further development and commercialisation in the field of information
| technology.
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http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8543&page=
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