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BMW seeks to patent technological creative thinking?!
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| Yes, you read the headline correctly. BMW
| has filed a patent for a "Method for
| Systematically Identifying Technology-Based
| Solutions." Broken down into non-lawyer
| speak, BMW thinks it has identified the
| ways in which technology can solve
| problems. In other words, they want to
| patent the methodology behind technological
| problem solving.
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http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/06/bmw-seeks-to-patent-technological-creative-thinking/
"Intellectual Property" a Violation of Real Property
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| Proprietary software advocates would
| probably be most concerned with money
| whereas ironically Free Software advocates,
| especially those who promote GNU General
| Public License (GPL), would be concerned
| with power.
|
| [...]
|
| Intellectual property is a lie, thus its
| enforcement by means of the copyright law
| is nothing more than institutionalized
| violation of real property rights by means
| of granting government enforced monopolies
| to authors. They are given the power to
| dictate how individuals who never entered
| any agreements with them and instead got it
| from someone else will use their own
| property (hard drives, DVD players and
| burners etc.).
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http://www.libervis.com/article/intellectual-property-a-violation-of-real-property
Recent:
Patent Lawsuit Threatens to Clip Twitterâs Wings
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| TechRadium, a little known Texas-based player in the emergency
| mass-notification field, didnât just wake up this month and decide to sue
| Twitter for patent infringement.
|
| The company says it didnât care about Twitter when the Twitterati was
| watching the tweets of NBA superstars, musicians, politicians and news
| outlets. But then TechRadium began seeing promotional materials and news
| accounts of companies, school districts and local governments using, or
| considering adopting, the microblogging service as their emergency
| notification system â muscling into TechRadiumâs wheelhouse.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/patent-lawsuit-threatens-to-clip-twitters-wings/
Patent loss could rain on Windows 7 parade
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| MICROSOFT MUST BE PANICKED that its recent loss in a US patent lawsuit could
| dampen the retail launch of its massively hyped Windows 7 operating system on
| 22 October.
|
| Last Friday it filed a sealed Emergency Motion asking for a stay of execution
| following its loss on 11 August in i4i v. Microsoft, a patent infringement
| lawsuit covering Custom XML.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1529440/patent-loss-rain-windows-parade
And Of Course: Twitter Sued For Patent Infringement In Texas
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| This should hardly be a surprise, but with Twitter being so popular lately,
| it was only a matter of time until it was targeted in patent infringement
| lawsuits. At the very least, the company suing them appears to (a) actually
| be based in Texas and (b) have a product on the market. But... that doesn't
| make TechRadium's lawsuit against Twitter any more reasonable or sensible.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090805/0930535777.shtml
US firm sues Twitter over patents
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| A Texas-based firm is suing the micro-blogging site Twitter, alleging that
| its three patents for a similar service are being infringed.
|
| TechRadium's system, called Iris, provides notification technology so that
| alerts can be sent to many users.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8187331.stm
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