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Seagate may face noise reduction patent payout
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| Just as Seagate is getting back to health
| after a year of recovery, it has been accused
| of destroying evidence pertinent to a 10-year
| old noise reduction technology lawsuit
| instigated against it by Convolve and MIT.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/seagate_convolve/
Cisco Realizes It's A Waste Of Time To Focus On Patent Quantity
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091222/0317517465.shtml
Cisco's Patent Strategy: It's More Than Numbers
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| So innovationâat least as measured by patentsâ
| seems to fading in the U.S. As I wrote here in
| the current issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek,
| patent applications fell in the year ended
| Sept. 30, for only the second time in the last
| 25 years. For the first time, moreover,
| foreigners obtained more patents than U.S.
| residents.
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2009/12/has_the_recessi.html
Recent:
Patents: an Open Letter to my MP
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| Dear Rob Wilson MP,
|
| My accountants have drawn my attention to a
| little-noticed clause in the Chancellor's
| recent pre-budget statement that announces
| a measure (curiously named the "patent
| box") whose effect is to offer a reduced
| rate of corporation tax for profits
| deriving from patents. The stated intent is
| to encourage and reward innovation. As far
| as the software business (so important to
| the economy of your constituency) is
| concerned, the effect is likely to be
| exactly the opposite, and I would therefore
| like to encourage you to oppose it and to
| ensure that a Conservative government will
| not only reverse it, but move in the
| opposite direction.
|
| First let me explain where I am coming
| from. After 25 years as a senior software
| engineer with ICL, I spent 3 years with the
| mid-size German company Software AG, and
| for the last six years I have been running
| my own one-man software company here in
| Reading. It's a successful small business,
| selling globally over the internet, and
| relying 100% on innovation: my competitors
| are companies like IBM and Intel. They have
| both produced products similar to mine this
| year, but 5 years behind.
|
| Technically, UK and EU law disallows
| patents on software. However, the patent
| lawyers have found ways around that, and
| the current situation is that the patent
| offices are accepting applications that are
| software patents in all but name, and the
| courts are accepting them as valid.
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http://saxonica.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2009/12/14/4404215.html
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