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Examples of Outrageous Patents and Judgments
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| Examples of (at least apparently) ridiculous
| patents and patent applications abound (more
| at PatentLawPractice):
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| * Amazon's "one-click" patent, asserted
| against rival Barnes & Noble
| * Cendant's assertion that Amazon violated
| Cendant's patent monopoly on recommending
| books to customers (since settled)
| * The attempt of Dustin Stamper, Bush's
| Top Economist, to secure a patent
| regarding an application for a System And
| Method For Multi-State Tax Analysis, which
| claims "a method, comprising: creating one
| or more alternate entity structures based
| on a base entity structure, the base
| entity structure comprising one or more
| entities; determining a tax liability for
| each alternate entity structure and the
| base entity structure; and generating a
| result based on comparing each of the
| determined tax liabilities"
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001689
US software patent repartee
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| Harsh words came from Eben Moglen of the
| Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC): "Software
| patenting has been a scourge in the global
| technology industries," writes the lawyer. In
| his brief, Moglen argues that software is
| nothing more than an array of computer
| instructions. In the lawyer's opinion,
| computer programs should be as ineligible for
| patent protection as mathematical equations or
| precise descriptions of physical laws. Ciaran
| O'Riordan of the End Software Patents
| campaign, which is supported by the Free
| Software Foundation (FSF), also calls software
| patents an "economic failure and a hindrance
| to the progress of the useful arts." Allowing
| software patents has "resulted in perverse
| economic effects," as litigation is
| increasingly targeting not only developers,
| but also users in the general economy, said
| O'Riordan.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/US-software-patent-repartee--/news/114400
Recent:
EU Worried About IP Harming Innovation... But Gets It Backwards
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| Rob H alerts us to an article that starts out sounding
| reasonable... pointing out that politicians in the EU are meeting
| because they're worried about intellectual property laws holding
| back innovation in Europe... but then it goes off the rails. You
| see, they're not worried that the laws are holding back
| innovation because they're too strict, but because they're too
| weak. As you look, though, you realize that these politicians
| have basically been lobbied by businesses that want protectionist
| policies.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090925/0109176318.shtml
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