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Inventing a Better Patent System
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| The quality of American patents has been
| deteriorating for years; they are increasingly
| issued for products and processes that are not
| truly innovative â things like the queuing
| system for Netflix, which was patented in
| 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but
| was it really a breakthrough deserving patent
| protection?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/opinion/17pozen.html?_r=2
Boom! Shazam Sued For Patent Infringement
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| Shazam Entertainment, makers of the popular
| iPhone app that tells you what song is
| playing in the car, store, bar, restaurant,
| etc., is getting sued for patent
| infringement by Digimarc, another software
| company. The suit covers three patents; two
| date back to 1995 -- long before the
| iPhone.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/shazam-sued-for-patent-infringement-2009-11
Recent:
Google Sued Over Patents On Open Source Code
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| Specifically, Red Bend claims that Google's
| Chrome browser violates this patent by
| including an algorithm, called Courgette, that
| lets Google push compressed software updates.
| Of course, plenty of companies have come up
| with various ways to push compressed software
| updates over the years, so I'm at a loss as to
| why it requires a patent... but that's a
| different issue. The problem here is the
| reporting on this lawsuit by Mass High Tech and
| reporter Galen Moore. First, he claims that
| this lawsuit suggests Google's "open-source
| Chrome browser isn't so open source after all."
| Huh? I've read that sentence over and over
| again and I can't figure out how a patent
| dispute would mean that Chrome isn't open
| source. This kind of reporting suggests that a
| patent simply wipes out the type of license
| covering a software.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091028/0159066702.shtml
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