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US Dir. of Citizen Participation Patents the News
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| theodp writes "Ex-Googler and now White
| House Director of Citizen Participation
| Katie Stanton is charged with promoting
| open public dialogues. Last Thursday,
| Stanton and Google snagged a patent on
| displaying financial news. Google explains
| that Stanton's invention â Interactive
| Financial Charting and Related News
| Correlation â will 'facilitate and
| encourage the user's use and understanding
| of financial information,' which does jibe
| nicely with Stanton's appointment to
| Obama's New Media Team. Too bad it'll be
| encumbered by a Google patent until 2027."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/002259/US-Dir-of-Citizen-Participation-Patents-the-News?from=rss
Do Patents Slow Down Innovation?
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| Iâm still obsessed with my mission to
| âabolish software patentsâ especially after
| receiving yet another email from a new
| startup that claims to be a âPatent Insurance
| Company.â A number of these have popped up
| recently in the past few years, including
| several that are funded by VCs. Their pitch
| is that you pay them an annual fee, license
| any patents you have to them, and they will
| âprotect youâ against any patent litigation.
| Whenever I hear this pitch, all I can think
| about is Al Capone walking the streets of
| Chicago going door to door offering
| âprotectionâ to all of the local businessmen
| if they will pay his vig every week.
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http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/11645/do-patents-slow-down-innovation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EIblogs+%28Enterprise+Irregulars%29
Recent:
Google Files For Local Search And Mapping Patent In India
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| Google has filed for a patent in India, for a map based local search
| application. This appears to essentially be a patent for Google Local on
| Mobile, a service launched in 2005, and subsequently renamed/replaced by
| Google Maps for mobile.
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http://www.medianama.com/2008/10/223-google-maps-local-search-patent-india/
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