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Almost One Million Patent Applications in China in 2009
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| China's State Intellectual Property Office
| (SIPO) reports he following statistics:
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| * 976,686 patent applications (up
| 17.9%)
| * 877,611 domestic (89.9% and up 22.4%)
| * 99,075 from abroad (10.1%, down
| 10.9%)
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http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2010/01/almost-one-million-patent-applications.html
Patentable subject matter - Where are we now?
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| The presentation concentrated on
| developments over the past few years in the
| law on patentable subject matter, in
| particular relating to so-called software
| patents (or, according to the EPO's more
| accurate general term, 'computer-
| implemented inventions'), with emphasis on
| how the UK Patent Office and courts have
| dealt with the issue, and how this compares
| with the approach taken by the EPO and
| their Boards of Appeal.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/01/patentable-subject-matter-where-are-we.html
Ask HN: Cases where software patents have prevented progress?
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| A student writing a thesis about software
| patents emailed me asking about cases "in
| which having a patent on an algorithm
| prevented some significant technological
| progress." HN seemed the best place to find
| answers. What are the clearest examples of
| this happening, and how much did they slow
| things down?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075505
Related:
When Patents Threaten Science
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| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
| nature, or mathematical formulas.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395
Sprint Nextel, Acacia unit settle patent suit
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| A subsidiary of Acacia Research Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. have settled a
| lawsuit alleging that Sprint Nextel had infringed on patents for technology
| used to display mobile vehicle information on maps.
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http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/local-news/kansascity/2008/01/02/sprint-nextel-acacia-unit-settle-patent-suit
Top Ten Patent Trolls of 2007
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| 3. Acacia. I didn't start tracking Acacia carefully until the summer. But
| still, on my blog I have reported on over two dozen lawsuits brought by
| Acacia this year, against more than 235 defendants. That's in addition to the
| over 200 lawsuits Acacia filed in previous years against hundreds and
| hundreds of defendants. And that's not including the two lawsuits (at least)
| Acacia has filed in December against 20 more defendants (yes, Acacia, I'm
| watching you). Acacia's business model, as a publicly traded company, is to
| accumulate patents and sue as many companies as possible in order to extract
| licenses. They have a market cap of over 275 million - that pays for a lot of
| lawsuits. Unlike other trolls, Acacia tends to not focus on one court in
| particular, although they have sampled the Eastern District of Texas more
| this year than in the past.
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http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-ten-patent-trolls-of-2007.html
Yahoo Patent Troll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFUSHwRXJE
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