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When Declining To Enforce Your Intellectual Property Rights Strengthens Your Market Position
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| Over the years we've shown many examples of
| times when it makes much more business
| sense not to enforce your intellectual
| property rights, but reader Jerry Leichter
| sends in another example.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100115/1737037782.shtml
USPTO Grants Google a Patent On MapReduce
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| theodp writes "Two years ago, David DeWitt
| and Michael Stonebraker deemed MapReduce a
| major step backwards (here are the original
| paper and a defense of it) that 'represents
| a specific implementation of well known
| techniques developed nearly 25 years ago.'
| A year later, the pair teamed up with other
| academics and eBay to slam MapReduce again.
| But the very public complaints didn't stop
| Google from demanding a patent for
| MapReduce; nor did it stop the USPTO from
| granting Google's request (after four
| rejections). On Tuesday, the USPTO issued
| U.S. Patent No. 7,650,331 to Google for
| inventing Efficient Large-Scale Data
| Processing."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/19/1815257/USPTO-Grants-Google-a-Patent-On-MapReduce
Google's MapReduce patent: what does it mean for Hadoop?
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| The USPTO awarded search giant Google a
| software method patent that covers the
| principle of distributed MapReduce, a
| strategy for parallel processing that is
| used by the search giant. If Google chooses
| to aggressively enforce the patent, it
| could have significant implications for
| some open source software projects that use
| the technique, including the Apache
| Foundation's popular Hadoop software
| framework.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/googles-mapreduce-patent-what-does-it-mean-for-hadoop.ars
Google patents Map/Reduce
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| The concept of mapping and reducing
| fuctions has been a fundamental idea behind
| distributed parallel processing for many
| years, and in a dispute it could be
| reasonably claimed that Google didn't
| invent MapReduce itself, but that would
| just move the argument on to the specific
| claims within the patent.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-patents-Map-Reduce-908602.html
Recent:
Google Exec Hints at Future Open Platform
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| I was watching a video of a panel from the Web 2.0 Summit on ReadWriteWeb.
| I've had a growing fascination with Cloud Computing in recent months, and
| this particular panel included key players from Google, Salesforce.com, Adobe
| and VMware (with Tim O'Reilly acting as panel moderator).
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3475.html
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