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If Your Computer Detects You Laughing At This Patent Drawing, You May Have
Infringed On The Patent
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| ChurchHatesTucker alerts us to the news that Sony has applied for a patent on
| an emotion detection device that could, for example, recognize when someone
| viewing a television or playing a video game is laughing.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090819/1749325933.shtml
Yeah... those patents really 'promote' lots of 'innovation'...
There Is No Harmony In A Patent Thicket
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| As China and India are exhorted to increase intellectual property protection
| and enforcement to higher standards - âharmonizationâ in the rhetoric of its
| proponents - they risk emulating the detrimental IP systems of the developed
| world. The United States, widely viewed as the most innovative nation in the
| world, has a patent system that has, according to Jaffe, "become sand rather
| than lubricant in the wheels of American progressâ (Jaffe 2004). Even more
| worrying, the trend in international intellectual property is actually
| speeding past the American level of protection, raising concerns that the
| incredibly strong IP in countries will diminish, rather than promote,
| innovative capabilities.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090601/0606025080.shtml
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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