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Patent Markings May Spell Trouble For Activision
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/0656238/Patent-Markings-May-Spell-Trouble-For-Activision
A Mark Against Activision?
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| The immense popularity of musical video
| games such as Guitar Hero, Band Hero and DJ
| Hero appears to have generated some
| unwanted attention for Activision
| Publishing, Inc. ("Activision"). In
| particular, on February 12, 2010, Patent
| Compliance Group, Inc. ("PCG") filed a qui
| tam action against Activision, alleging
| that Activision has falsely marked many of
| its video games including Guitar Hero 5,
| Band Hero, DJ Hero and Guitar Hero Smash
| Hits (collectively "Activision video game
| products") as patented or patent pending.
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http://www.patentarcade.com/2010/02/mark-against-activision.html
VC Explains How Damaging Software Patents Can Be
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| Despite claims that no VCs would ever
| invest in companies without patents, we've
| been seeing more and more VCs moving over
| to the side of recognizing that patents are
| more often hindering their portfolio
| companies rather than helping them -- and
| these are some of the most respected VCs
| around these days. Brad Burnham, who has
| already called for an independent invention
| defense for patents has responded to Nathan
| Myhrvold's ongoing campaign to legitimize
| patent shakedowns.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100222/1258548257.shtml
Can You Really Patent a BlackBerry Flashlight App?
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| Now I am curious what you all think. Even
| if it were possible should developers be
| able to patent a way of performing a
| function programmatically on your
| BlackBerry? I personally think that would
| be ridiculous and I know for a fact that it
| is VERY difficult to get a software patent.
| From what I understand at most developers
| can get copyright for the written code but
| that is only relevant if another person
| copies the actual code which is hard to
| proveâ
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http://www.berryreview.com/2010/02/23/can-you-really-patent-a-blackberry-flashlight-app/
Recent:
A Unified European Patent System - The Historical Perspective
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| The idea of creating a single patent court
| for Europe in order to improve legal
| certainty as well as to reduce costs is
| inextricably intertwined with the idea of
| creating a unitary trans-national patent
| which has the same legal effect all over
| Europe and which goes well beyond the
| European bundle patent of our days. Without
| such new substantive patent law, any attempt
| to bundle the procedural aspects of
| litigation and nullity matters will surely
| be futile. When assessing the chances for a
| unification of patent courts in Europe we
| will have to look at the history and
| prospects of both ideas. If there is no
| unitary substantial patent law in Europe
| there will also be no European patent court.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/138-A-Unified-European-Patent-System-The-Historical-Perspective.html
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