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Why We Shouldn't Take Patent Law Seriously
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| Because it takes well over 8 years of
| litigation and thousands of dollars for an
| Appeals Court to determine that attaching a
| piece of memorabilia to a trading card is
| 'obvious' and thus, not patentable.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002645
Fils-Aime Feels 'Embarrassed' For Sony, Microsoft
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| Reggie Fils-Aime, President and Chief
| Operating Officer of Nintendo of America,
| has never really been one to mix his words
| and he's given his honest opinion on both
| Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's
| PlayStation Move in one stinging retort.
|
| When speaking to Kotaku on the subject of
| Sony and Microsoft playing catch-up, he
| said "I think we would have been
| embarrassed to do what our competitors are
| currently doing."
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http://www.gamingunion.net/news/fils-aime-feels-embarrassed-for-sony-microsoft--1184.html
Microsoft Seeks to Patent the DLC Upsell
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| A recent patent application describes a
| process in which an Xbox Live gamer,
| invited to a multiplayer session, but
| missing a critical piece to play (a map, a
| track, whatever), is offered and may buy it
| without dropping the invitation.
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http://kotaku.com/5492963/microsoft-seeks-to-patent-the-dlc-upsell
News: Microsoft patents Xbox Live upsell idea
http://news.zergwatch.com/2010/03/15/news-microsoft-patents-xbox-live-upsell-idea/
Microsoft watch: new 'upsell' idea patented for Xbox Live
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| Dubbed the "Automated Direct Transaction and Delivery System", this new patent would automatically detect whether a player has the required content to play in a particular session, whether online or offline.
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http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/7289/microsoft-watch-new-upsell-idea-patented-for-xbox-live
Recent:
How Hard Is It To Realize That One-Click Buying Doesn't Deserve A Patent?
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| Amazon and Jeff Bezos (who a decade ago was
| a founder of a project to bust bogus
| patents) have aggressively fought to keep
| the patent alive. And so we've now entered
| the fifth year of the review process, which
| seems to involve some rather annoyed USPTO
| patent examiners, who are fed up with what
| appears to be Amazon simply dumping
| busywork on the examiners to avoid a final
| rejection of the patent.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100223/0249208265.shtml
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