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[News] Gooogle and Facebook Taste Their Own Software Patents Poison

  • Subject: [News] Gooogle and Facebook Taste Their Own Software Patents Poison
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:17:58 +0000
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Google, Facebook sued on mobile notworking

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| Google and Facebook have been sued in New 
| York  by a company claiming to own software 
| patents that put social networks on mobile 
| phones. 
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http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/3/10/google-facebook-sued-on-mobile-notworking/

Google, Facebook Sued Over Social-Networking Patent

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| Wireless Ink Corp., which runs the Winksite 
| service, claims that Facebook Mobile and 
| Google Buzz are infringing a patent issued 
| in October. In a complaint filed yesterday 
| in federal court in Manhattan, the company 
| is seeking cash compensation and a court 
| order to prevent further use of its 
| invention. 
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=acishqhFv2uc

Microsoft tries again in XML patent case it lost against i4i: and the court's decision is...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/10/microsoft-i4i-court-decision

Electronic Frontier Foundation Examines, Stomps On iPhone Developer Agreement

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| More than 100,000 app developers have 
| reportedly signed the iPhone Development 
| Program License Agreement allowing them 
| write software for the iPhone, however few 
| people outside the inner circle of 
| developers have ever seen the documents 
| thanks to a non-disclosure clause included 
| in the agreement.When NASA released the NASA 
| App for iPhone, The Electronic Frontier 
| Foundation (EFF) seized the opportunity to 
| get a copy from the federal government under 
| the Freedom of Information Act.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/electronic-frontier-foundation-examines-stomps-on-iphone-developer-agreement


Recent:

Competitors may fight Facebook feed patent

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| Earlier this week, Scottish blogger and law
| lecturer Andres Guadamuz accused Facebook
| of aiming to protect "a trivial use of
| databases".
|
| "It seems like the software patent standard
| in the US is so low that all one needs is
| to get a clever patent attorney to attach a
| lot of mumbo jumbo to mundane database
| functions and voila, you are given a
| patent," he wrote.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/05/2838033.htm


Facebookâs ânews feedâ patent â just a legal novelty?

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/04/facebooks-news-feed-patent-just-a-legal-novelty/


Google urged to free Flash

http://sms58.com/23851/google-urged-to-free-flash/


Google Wins Patent For Geo-Targeting Ads

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021771.html


Google Awarded Location Patent Filed Six Years Ago For Use In âAd Systemâ

http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/google-awarded-location-patent-filed-six-years-ago-for-use-in-ad-system-5598/


Itâs Patent Season: Google Scores Major Patent For Location-Based Advertising

http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/03/02/patent-season-google-scores-major-patent-locationbased-advertising/



Looking at Facebook's news feed patent

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| I wonder what is Facebookâs strategy here. They
| could simply be looking to stifle competitors.
| The obvious result of this is that they will
| probably attempt to get licences from some
| prominent social networks and the
| aforementioned open source projects. In the
| longer run, this could be used to become the
| only name in social networking. Not good news
| at all.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/looking-at-facebook-news-stream-patent


Google Secures Broad Patent for Location-Based Advertising

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| That patent itself focuses on making sure
| businesses can better target their ads based on
| location information so that they can do things
| such as price arbitration (e.g. figuring out
| prices for items near you and getting the best
| deal). It also deals with the user interface
| and defining geographic areas.
`----

http://mashable.com/2010/03/01/google-location-advertising-patent/


Scientist Finds PageRank-Type Algorithm from the 1940s

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| Google's PageRank algorithm was developed
| in 1998. But a project to trace the history
| of such algorithms reveals an example from
| the 1940s.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24821/?a=f
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