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Software Patents Violate The Patent Bargain, Since There Is No Disclosure To Trade-Off
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| It's always fun talking to big time patent
| system supporters, because it's easy to
| predict their arguments. After you point out
| all of the evidence that has shown absolutely
| no proof that patents increase innovation, the
| supporters always shift from "patents are
| necessary for innovation" to "patents are
| really about disclosure." The argument here is
| that part of the "bargain" for getting a
| government granted monopoly over your
| invention is that you have to describe the
| invention, so that those who are skilled in
| the art can replicate it from your
| description. Of course, as patent attorneys
| and software engineers admit, that's a myth.
| Patents are written these days to be
| incredibly broad, and really only
| understandable to other patent attorneys,
| rather than other engineers .
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100310/0437118502.shtml
Recent:
City Caller ID is already patented by another company
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| I don't have the time or money to license
| this technology and use it from Cequint.
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http://www.threadabort.com/archive/2010/02/20/city-caller-id-has-been-sued-by-cequint.aspx?mp=1
City Caller ID - My First Android App
http://www.threadabort.com/archive/2009/12/14/city-caller-id-my-first-android-app.aspx
Guy Who Makes Simple Caller ID App For Android Forced To Shut Down Due To Patent Threat
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| Seriously, can any patent supporter explain
| with a straight face how patents like this
| promote progress? What kind of incentive does
| a patent create in this case? Can you
| honestly claim that this kind of monopoly was
| necessary to "invent" a way to match a phone
| number to a city?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100224/0244468285.shtml
IMAX Threatens Open Source 3D Engine With Bizarre Reasoning
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| Proffer alerts us to the bizarre story of how
| IMAX (last seen suing competitors and
| misleading people about what an IMAX film
| really is) is now threatening the folks behind
| the Sandy3D open source 3D flash engine.
| Apparently, IMAX has some sort of 3D drawing
| system called SANDDE. So, maybe, if you
| squint, you could see how IMAX might be
| complaining about a trademark issue. But the
| letter from IMAX is quite odd. It doesn't
| mention trademark at all. Instead, it mentions
| a French patent.
|
| [...]
|
| In the end, it looks like some IMAX lawyers
| decided to just threaten these open source
| developers, hoping that by spewing some
| totally unrelated info about a patent, it
| might scare the developers into changing the
| name on a product, even though the patent has
| nothing at all to do with the issue, and the
| company has no registered trademark on the
| name in question.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0319588562.shtml
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