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Business method patents ‘face rough ride’
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22381
Congress Tries Again to Ban Tax Strategy Patents
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| In the bill, the term “tax planning method” is defined as “a plan, strategy,
| technique, or scheme that is designed to reduce, minimize, or defer, or has,
| when implemented, the effect of reducing, minimizing, or deferring, a
| taxpayer’s tax liability, but does not include the use of tax preparation
| software or other tools used solely to perform or model mathematical
| calculations or prepare tax or information returns.”
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http://www.bankinvestmentconsultant.com/news/congress-ban-tax-strategy-patents-2662004-1.html
Akin Gump Hit With $72.6M Malpractice Judgment
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| They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that appears to include
| malpractice awards in the Lone Star state.
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| Yesterday, a federal jury in San Antonio slapped Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
| Feld with a $72.6 million judgment for botching a patent application filed by
| a Texas-based company and an inventor.
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/05/akin-gump-hit-with-726m-malpractice-judgment.html
Related:
New Patentable Idea: A Way to Invalidate Vague Patents
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| The death of business method patents could be felt strongest in Silicon
| Valley, where a first step of many entrepreneurs is to retreat with lawyers
| to start patenting defensible business ideas. It could also affect patent
| acquisition firms such as Intellectual Ventures, a firm funded by major
| technology companies such Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple and Nokia, that is
| aggressively accumulating patent portfolios.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/new-patentable-idea-a-way-to-invalidate-vague-patents/index.html?ref=technology
Starhome Granted Patent for Intelligent Border Roaming
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| Starhome, which provides roaming services and converged solutions, has
| revealed that it has been granted a patent in the US (No. 7 333 808) for it’s
| Intelligent Border Roaming technology. The patent is based on Starhome’s
| service node architecture for controlling and steering border roaming, which
| prevents home network subscribers from inadvertently registering to
| cross-border foreign networks with strong coverage.
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http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2008/03/starhome-grante.html
More Bad News at Tax Time?
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| The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new rules that would pull within
| its orbit any software patent that affects taxes, likely choking innovation.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23335842/
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