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Microsoft sues TiVo...but not over Linux. Surprise!
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| At least, one hopes so. As Red Hat
| evangelist Jan Wildeboer suggests,
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| The 6,008,803 patent...looks very broad.
| Might affect all kinds of media center
| [software]. So also Linux apps. The real
| question is, "Which Linux media center
| app infringes on Tivo patents?
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10438791-16.html
Patent Litigation Weekly: Shutter Closing on Massive Photo-Sharing Patent Suit
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| McKool's promotional material doesnât
| emphasize its work for FotoMedia, a patent-
| holding company whose only apparent business
| is filing infringement lawsuits. As part of
| its litigation campaign, FotoMedia has been
| demanding royalty payments from more than 60
| companies with photo-sharing websites. The
| McKool lawyer in charge of the FotoMedia
| cases was not available for interviews on
| Friday, and FotoMedia has not responded to
| TPA interview requests in the past.
| FotoMedia is also represented by Ward &
| Olivo, a firm out of New York that
| frequently represents patent-holding
| companies.
|
| [...]
|
| FotoMedia is a patent-holding company that
| claims just about every photo-sharing
| website you can imagine infringes its three
| patents. Its lawsuits, covered by TPA last
| May and June, are notable not just for the
| audacity of the claims they make, but also
| because they target dozens of small- and
| medium-sized software companies that provide
| various types of photo-sharing services over
| the Internet.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2010/01/fotomedia-patent-litigation-update.html
Recent:
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
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