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Remind Me: Why Do We Let Patent Lawsuits Go On Even As USPTO Has Doubts About
The Patents?
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| While plenty of people are familiar with the fact that NTP got $612.5 million
| from RIM in a patent dispute a few years back (which drew tremendous scrutiny
| into the realm of patents), one of the most interesting details that many
| people didn't follow was that at the same time as the lawsuit was going on,
| the US Patent Office was re-examining those same patents, and issuing
| rejections of the very same patents. Despite the USPTO even rushing to
| announce its problems with the patents way ahead of schedule, the judge chose
| not to wait for the final rejections and pressured RIM into paying up.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090806/0231595785.shtml
Twitter sued for patent infringement
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/06/twitter_sued_by_techradium/
gusgus - Subject: Patent ( Aug 6, 2009, 19:32:14 )
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| This is why we should not have software patents. I've been sending alerts and
| messages to a distribution list since I was using email. What's the
| difference.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-08-06-021-35-NW-BZ-0000
Recent:
Company Receives Patent for Podcasting
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| VoloMedia, a podcast analytics, advertising, and distribution company, just
| received a patent for "providing episodic media," including podcasts.
| According to the company, which filed for the patent in November 2003, U.S.
| Patent 7,568,213 covers all episodic media downloads, not just the
| RSS-dependent downloads that power today's podcasts. VoloMedia CEO Murgesh
| Navar says that the company doesn't plan to go after individual podcasters,
| but that the company plans to "work collaboratively with key participants in
| the industry." We do wonder, however, if VoloMedia can really claim to have
| invented podcasting in 2003, given that the concept was already under
| development by Dave Winer and others in late 2000 and early 2001.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/company_receives_patent_for_podcasting.php
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