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Microsoft Enters Into Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement With Funai
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-enters-into-patent-cross-licensing-agreement-with-funai-82116297.html
Microsoft, Funai TV maker to share patents
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/191595.asp
Microsoft signs patent cross-licensing agreement with Funai Electric
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| Microsoft said that the agreement covers consumer audio-video products
| including LCD TVs. Funai also will gain access to Microsoft's extended
| file allocation table (exFAT) patents.
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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3801554
Microsoft Sues TiVo Over Patents for Video Programs (Update2)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=asrX75LfSrSg
Apple Patents Home Energy Management System
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/19573
Apple Multi-Touch Patent on Shaky Ground
http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10004789/apple-multi-touch-patent-on-shaky-ground/
Microsoft Complying with Word Court Order
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Word-Complying-with-Court-Order-303396/
Microsoft misses injunction deadline, pulls Office
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/01/12/ms.yet.to.offer.i4i.cleared.office.to.public/
Microsoft Pulls Copies of Word Following Injunction
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/news/article.php/3858126
Word injunction now in effect â sales limited
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/190757.asp
i4i fielding questions, concerns about Word injunction
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/190848.asp
Microsoft falls on its face
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1585700/microsoft-falls
Update On Bilski
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| Editor: Clearly this case has drawn significant interest, with nearly
| 70 amicus briefs having been filed. How big are the stakes here?
|
| Bauer: The stakes are very high. Depending on
| what the court does, this could be a
| transforming event. Over the last 30 to 40
| years, the patent system has evolved
| essentially to allow nearly anything to be
| patented. This case has brought the issue of
| business method patents into question,
| specifically a process that could make energy
| costs more predictable. Based on the
| justices' comments during oral arguments, the
| Supreme Court appears poised to scale back
| what should be considered patentable - the
| question is how far they'll go.
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http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=January&artYear=2010&EntryNo=10558
IBM leads list of US patents granted in 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220040520100112?type=marketsNews
Obamaâs Man at the USPTO Seeks to Rehab the Agency
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| ID: Interesting. We need to talk about first-
| to-file. But before we get to that, to what
| extent is your lengthy tenure at IBM
| influencing you at the USPTO? Are you running
| it more like a Fortune 500 company?
|
| David Kappos: Thatâs another great question
| and I would answer it with yes and no. Yes in
| the sense that I am trying to bring business
| discipline. I have a lot of experience in
| managing and leading in running businesses
| and running P and Ls â profits and losses,
| right â in management processes, in setting
| cadence, in developing and running a
| pipeline. These are all disciplines that you
| learn when you spend your career in the
| business world.
|
| [...]
|
| I spent a lot of time with Richard. Iâm here
| to make the Richards of the world successful.
| Iâm here to make the pharmaceutical industry
| successful. Iâm here to make specialty
| chemicals successful. Iâm here to make
| medium-sized businesses in California
| successful.
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http://www.inventorsdigest.com/?p=2621
Recent:
Obama: Patent office's system is 'embarrassing'
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/76055-obama-patent-offices-system-is-embarrassing
Obama Calls The Patent Office Embarrassing For Its Outdated Workflow
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| Indeed. It is embarrassing (perhaps the
| fear of patent infringement holds the
| patent office back from modernizing?), but
| not quite as embarrassing as the fact that
| the patent office has not done its job of
| "protecting and promoting innovation" at
| all for a very long time. Given the number
| of questionable and obvious patents that it
| has approved, and its willingness to create
| massive patent thickets, it has become
| clear that the patent office has been much
| more focused on processing patents, not in
| promoting innovation.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100115/1052177773.shtml
Lessons from 60 years of pharmaceutical innovation
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| He also admits that "in many organizations,
| short-term priorities encourage marginal
| innovation, which provides more reliable
| returns on investment, at the expense of
| major change." He recognizes, in other
| words, that the current incentive system
| rewards the development of me-too drugs
| over novel therapies. Finally, he admits
| that alternatives to the traditional patent
| system, including prizes, may be required
| to boost R&D productivity.
|
| Very encouraging words!
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002319
Nokia Defeats IPCom's UK Patent Lawsuit
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| Nokia has scored two consecutive victories
| against German patent license manager IPCom
| in the U.K, it said on Tuesday.
|
| On Monday, the U.K. High Court announced
| that two IPCom patents named in a suit
| brought by IPCom against Nokia are invalid,
| and therefore can't be infringed upon,
| according to Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant.
| The patents are related to how phones
| connect to a GSM (Global System for Mobile
| Communications) network, he said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/187160/nokia_defeats_ipcoms_uk_patent_lawsuit.html?tk=rss_news
Marcus Dapp: Do SW patents hamper motivation and innovation of FOSS developers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjRAlH8hcc
U.S. losing Right Stuff in science, engineering
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| According to a 2010 National Science Board report, the state
| of science and engineering in the U.S. is still good; however, the
| countryâs lead in the number of researchers is being challenged by China.
| Other science and engineering indicators in the U.S. are also being
| challenged by Asian countries.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30532/1066/
IBM Fluffs Patent Portfolio with Services Tech
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| For what seems like a zillion years
| running--alright, for the past 17 years
| now--IBM has come out as the top dog in
| the annual rankings of patents granted by
| the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A
| few years back, the USPTO stopped giving
| out data about patent counts, but market
| researcher IFI Patent Intelligence takes
| the raw patent data and dices and slices
| it like the patent office used to.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011810-story06.html
USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM
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| theodp writes "Among the last batch of
| patents granted in 2009 was one for IBM's
| Resolution of Abbreviated Text in an
| Electronic Communications System. The
| invention of four IBMers addresses the
| hitherto unsolvable problem of translating
| abbreviations to their full meaning â e.g.,
| 'IMHO' means 'In My Humble Opinion' â and
| vice versa. From the patent: 'One
| particularly useful application of the
| invention is to interpret the meaning of
| shorthand terms ... For example, one
| database may define the shorthand term "LOL"
| to mean "laughing out loud."' USPTO records
| indicate the patent filing was made more
| than a year after Big Blue called on the
| industry to stop what it called 'bad
| behavior' by companies who seek patents for
| unoriginal work. Yet another example of what
| USPTO Chief David Kappos called IBM's
| apparent schizophrenia on patent policy back
| when he managed Big Blue's IP portfolio."
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http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/12/30/166220/USPTO-Awards-LOL-Patent-To-IBM
IBM Patents Managing Your Patents
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| theodp writes "Before leaving a long IBM career
| last summer to head the USPTO, David Kappos
| managed Big Blue's patent and trademark
| portfolios. Last Tuesday, the USPTO awarded
| U.S. Patent No. 7,630,915 to IBM for its
| inventive method of Managing an Intellectual
| Property Portfolio."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091216/1806457391.shtml
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