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Microsoft, Nokia, Amazon, others sued over hardware acceleration
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| A company called Nazomi Communications has
| sued a number of large companies for
| breaching patents it owns on hardware
| acceleration.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/45023-microsoft-nokia-amazon-others-sued-over-hardware-acceleration
Apple getting sued again by patent profiteers
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| It must be hard to be as popular as Apple.
| You're always fighting the competition, who
| sometimes come late to the dance with a
| wannabee product, then deliver snarky
| punches into the kidneys with their TV ads.
| Even worse are the lawyers, who circle the
| company like a flock of vultures, picking
| away at whatever juicy bits of meat they
| can get.
|
| But the true bottom feeders are the "patent
| trolls," a specific species of law firm
| that has picked up patents from companies
| that usually never brought a product to
| market.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/05/apple-getting-sued-again-this-time-by-patent-profiteers/
Apple sued for alleged infringement over iPhone camera
http://www.macworld.com/article/144771/2009/12/iphone_camera_suit.html
Apple loses $21.7 million in patent suit, appeal in progress
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/12/apple-loses-217-million-in-patent-suit-appeal-in-progress.ars
Murky status for tech firm suing Microsoft
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| A Massachusetts company that last week sued
| Microsoft Corp., alleging patent
| infringement, appears to be something akin
| to a homeless orphan.
|
| NetView Technologies Inc. has no permanent
| address, and no full-time management.
| Regulatory filings, legal filings and the
| companyâs Web site list three different
| addresses, two of which are residences
| registered to former executives. A third is
| a Waltham address that the company no
| longer occupies.
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http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/12/07/daily35.html
Ralph Nader Calls Out Legal Profession, Law Schools
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| Lawyer and long-time activist says U.S. law
| schools don't spend enough time encouraging
| students to think critically about the law
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202436083087&Ralph_Nader_Calls_Out_Legal_Profession_Law_Schools
Recent:
Microsoft's Struggle With i4i Sheds Light On Software Patent Process
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| Microsoft's recent trials and tribulations
| with its Word software patent illustrates
| the difficulty in granting -- and defending
| -- software patents. This fall, Microsoft
| was briefly barred from selling Word
| because of a dispute over XML code that i4i
| claimed infringed on one of the Toronto,
| Ontario-based company's patents. That trial
| is ongoing. While some observers questioned
| why Microsoft didn't resolve the dispute
| early on, others are interested to see how
| the dispute will play out and how patent
| rights will be determined.
|
| [...]
|
| The Bilski case could provide the Supreme
| Court with an opportunity to resolve the
| ongoing debate over the wisdom of having
| software patents in the first place. At
| issue is whether a "process" must be tied
| to a particular machine or apparatus or
| transform a particular condition into a
| different state to be considered as patent-
| eligible subject matter.
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http://www.crn.com/software/221900795;jsessionid=3FXE4I5F0J3VZQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN
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