Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] Patent Attorney Spills the Beans on Patents

  • Subject: [News] Patent Attorney Spills the Beans on Patents
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:01:23 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/4.3.1
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Patent Attorney Highlights How Intellectual Ventures Syphons Money Away From Innovation

,----[ Quote ]
| Sawyer also points out that, contrary to 
| claims of the system's supporters, that 
| "having a patent doesn't mean that you really 
| invented anything, or that the person you're 
| suing would actually infringe in a rational 
| world." Some of you may have seen some of the 
| regular commenters here claim that there the 
| only way to prove you've invented something is 
| if you get a patent on it -- and that anyone 
| accused of infringing has clearly "stolen" the 
| idea. Neither of those things are true. What 
| Sawyer is pointing out is that getting a 
| patent is just a sign that you were able to 
| convince the USPTO (through a "pseudo-
| adversarial administrative procedure") that 
| you deserved such a monopoly privilege. It 
| doesn't mean you actually invented anything -- 
| and it certainly doesn't mean you've done 
| anything to promote the progress or innovation 
| in general.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100223/0129458262.shtml

Sawyer Weighs In On Intellectual Ventures

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/02/sawyer-weighs-in-on-intellectual-ventures.html


Recent:

Nazomi sues Amazon, Microsoft, Nokia over Java

,----[ Quote ]
| California-based Nazomi late yesterday sued
| several tech firms, including Amazon,
| Microsoft and Nokia, for allegedly violating
| patents it owns on translating Java code to
| specific devices. Filed in a Los Angeles
| court, the lawsuit complains that the three
| main firms as well as Garmin, Iomega, Sling,
| Vizio and Western Digital all have devices
| that supposedly copy its techniques. These
| include the Kindle and Zune as well as less
| common devices like the Slingbox or Nokia's
| tablet computers.
`----

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/11/nazomi.says.kindle.zune.violate.patents/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkuGuvQACgkQU4xAY3RXLo5mrACgjT55TGpTpHZOi77jSEieaNm7
s/AAn0kuifG5NVGdSN2+wBWMw1MiiIlW
=bDaw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index