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LCA 2010: Keeping patent trolls at bay
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| Free software is likely to come under
| increasing attack from patent holders in
| the years ahead and therefore developers
| themselves need to understand the basics of
| patents, free software luminary Andrew
| Tridgell said today.
|
| Delivering a talk titled "Patent defense
| for FOSS developers" at the 11th Australian
| national Linux conference in Wellington,
| Tridgell, who is best known for creating
| Samba and rsync, provided a walkthrough of
| some basics which needed to be learnt by
| all developers.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30653&Itemid=1090
Ballad of the Patent Troll
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| General Patent Corporation may be a dull-
| sounding name, but from the company's
| Wealth of Ideas newsletter comes something
| worth watching and highly thought-provoking
| -- "The Ballad of the Patent Troll" (for
| which, click here).
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http://patlit.blogspot.com/2010/01/ballad-of-patent-troll.html
AllIsBlue attacks Belgacom and Rossel
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| The Belgian company AllIsBlue is
| threatening to file complaint against the
| managing directors of Belgacom (Didier
| Bellens), Proximus (Michel Georgis) and
| Rossel (Bernard Marchant). AllIsBlue claims
| these companies are using mobile services
| on which AllIsBlue has a patent.
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http://www.mobileweb.be/allisblue-opposition/
What is the business model of AllIsBlue?
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| Now, looking at AllIsBlue, what is their
| business model? On which basis are they
| trying to generate revenues and income for
| their shareholders?
|
| Looking at this from the side (we are not
| an insider*), it seems very much that the
| mission and purpose of AllIsBlue is to
| attack and threaten companies (potential
| clients, competitors, â) on the basis of a
| patent written back in 2000. And to make a
| lot of noise about this.
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http://blog.mobileweb.be/2008/03/06/what-is-the-business-model-of-allisblue/
Recent:
Other Legal Work Slow? Start A Practice To Help Patent Trolling
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| From an economic standpoint, this activity
| is a pure dead weight loss on economic
| activity. There is nothing good that comes
| from it. You basically have companies that
| have ignored a patent they got for whatever
| reason, suddenly rediscovering it and using
| it to go after totally unrelated companies
| who actually innovated and brought products
| to market (almost always with no knowledge
| whatsoever of the questionable patent in
| the first place). And suddenly the actual
| innovators have to pay up to a company that
| did absolutely nothing with the invention.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091123/0159047049.shtml
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