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Microsoft Loses Yet Another Patent Lawsuit
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| In the last few years, Microsoft has become
| a bigger and bigger supporter of patents,
| which is a bit ironic, given that Bill
| Gates once pointed out that the software
| industry never would have developed if
| there had been software patents back in the
| early days. But, proving that new companies
| innovate, while older companies litigate,
| Microsoft has become a big patent hoarder
| in recent years. But, to date, while it's
| used those patents to threaten lots of
| companies, it seems like Microsoft's
| decision to live by patents, is actually
| costing it quite a bit of money.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100316/1623398587.shtml
Jury awards VirnetX $106M in Microsoft patent case
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| A Texas jury has sided with VirnetX in its
| patent-infringement lawsuit against
| Microsoft, recommending an award of $105.75
| million.
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/198325.asp
Microsoft licensing Linux
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| Proprietary giant is licensing open source
| to its partners. What is going on?
|
| Over the past few weeks Microsoft has been
| licensing Linux to a number of its
| partners, most notably Amazon. Although the
| idea of Microsoft, a company steeped in
| proprietary software, licensing open source
| software is ludicrous it's not completely
| unexpected. It's also not the first time
| Microsoft has played the Linux patent game
| and we can expect to see more deals in the
| future. So what's going on?
|
| [...]
|
| Then in February Microsoft announced a deal
| with Amazon which it described as covering
| a "broad range" of products, including
| Amazon's Kindle and Amazon's use of Linux-
| based servers. Effectively Microsoft is
| licensing Linux to Amazon on the
| understanding that it won't sue the company
| for infringing on its alleged Linux-related
| patents.
|
| This is not unlike the agreement struck
| between Novell and Microsoft in 2006 in
| which Microsoft agreed to indemnify Suse
| Linux users against potential patent suits.
| That deal too attracted significant ire
| from the open source community.
|
| The most recent Linux patent deal from
| Microsoft is a deal with Japanese hardware
| maker I-O Data. Although the specifics of
| the agreement are not known the two
| companies said that the the deal "will
| provide I-O Data's customers with patent
| coverage for their use of I-O Data's
| products running Linux and other related
| open source software." Again, Microsoft is
| providing an assurance that it won't file a
| patent suit against I-O Data for its use of
| Linux.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/columns/11782.html
OâGara Cloud Computing Article Off Base
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| This is just about the most naÃve explanation for whether a product will
| or will not be stable that Iâve ever read. If Maureen had bothered to
| email or call any one of the core Drizzle developers, theyâd have
| been happy to tell her what is and is not stable about Drizzle, and
| why. Drizzle has not changed the underlying storage engines,
| so the InnoDB storage engine in Drizzle is the same plugin as
| available in MySQL (version 1.0.6).
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http://www.joinfu.com/2010/03/cloud-computing-article-off-bas/
first comment: "There's no reason to be nice to MoG. She's the
same hitwoman who wrote a bunch of pro SCO, anti GPL FUD during
that whole trial (while being paid by them, while claiming to be
impartial), including publishing a bunch of personal info about the
previously anonymous blogger behind Groklaw."
SCO Asked O'Gara To Smear Groklaw
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/13/138210/SCO-Asked-OGara-To-Smear-Groklaw
Recent:
Microsoft's Amazon deal was all about Linux
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| However, buried in the small print of the press
| release about the deal was a set of
| technologies covered by the agreement including
| the Kindle, which employs open source software,
| and Amazonâs use of Linux-based servers.
|
| What this could mean is that Microsoft is
| popping around to some of the bigger Linux
| based technology outfits and saying: âLook you
| have some stuff we want to use, give us the
| rights to use it and we will not make you the
| first person we sue over Linuxâ.
|
| [...]
|
| What surprises us is that the Open Source
| community has not kicked up more of a stink
| about it.
|
| Jim Zemlin, of the Linux Foundation, wrote
| of the deal that most technology companies
| have invested heavily in patents and that a
| cross-licensing agreement is a non-news
| event. The fact that two entities with
| expensive stockpiles of outdated weapons
| felt the need to negotiate dÃtente is not
| surprising.
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http://www.techeye.net/software/microsofts-amazon-deal-was-all-about-linux
Google, Facebook Sued Over Phone Social-Networking
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-09/google-facebook-sued-over-phone-social-networking-patent.html
Google, Facebook Sued Because Without Some Random Patent No One Would Ever Access A Social Network From A Mobile Phone
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100310/0438248503.shtml
Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed
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| Zordak writes "Amazon's infamous '1-click'
| patent has been in reexamination at the
| USPTO for almost four years. Patently-O now
| reports that 'the USPTO confirmed the
| patentability of original claims 6-10 and
| amended claims 1-5 and 11-26. The approved-
| of amendment adds the seeming trivial
| limitation that the one-click system
| operates as part of a 'shopping cart model.'
| Thus, to infringe the new version of the
| patent, an eCommerce retailer must use a
| shopping cart model (presumably non-1-click)
| alongside of the 1-click version. Because
| most retail eCommerce sites still use the
| shopping cart model, the added limitation
| appears to have no practical impact on the
| patent scope.'"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/1950246/Amazon-1-Click-Patent-Survives-Almost-Unscathed
Amazon One-Click Patent Slides Through Reexamination
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/03/amazon-one-click-patent-slides-through-reexamination.html
Amazon.com's 1-Click patent confirmed following re-exam
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/03/amazons_1-click_patent_confirmed_following_re-exam.html
US Patent Office Decides That One Click Really Is Patentable
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100310/1011108507.shtml
One Click Patent Reexamination over - with claims amended and other Amazon applications rejected in light of my prior art
http://igdmlgd.blogspot.com/2010/03/one-click-patent-reexamination-over.html
Patent attack hits Apple, RIM, AT&T, Moto...
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| Apple, Research in Motion, and a gaggle of
| other deep-pocket firms have been slapped
| with a wide-ranging patent infringment suit
| by an obscure Texas firm.
|
| The suit alleges that Apple and RIM - plus
| AT&T, Insight Enterprises, LG Electronics,
| Motorola, Pantech Wireless, Samsung and
| Sanyo - are in violation of one or more of
| seven mobile phoneârelated patents. The
| allegedly infringed-upon patents include
| ones for Bluetooth connectivity, syncing,
| background processing and other mobile
| matters.
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http://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/10/rescue-that-infected-windows-machine-with-trinity-rescue/
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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