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Innovating Against Software Patents
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| Last week, Microsoft sued Salesforce.com
| claiming infringement of 9 software
| patents. This comes shortly after Nokia
| sued Apple who sued Nokia over software
| patents, and after Apple sued HTC who sued
| Apple over software patents.
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| As an example of the ridiculous nature of
| software patents, Microsoftâs claims cover
| user interface features, including a
| "system and method for providing and
| displaying a Web page having an embedded
| menu" and a "method and system for
| stacking toolbars in a computer display."
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| This explosion of litigation based on the
| patenting of software cannot be brushed-
| off as large corporations doing what they
| do, as almost every start-up software
| company is at some point being shaken down
| by software patent holders. Itâs a massive
| tax on and retardant of innovation.
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http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/05/innovating-against-software-patents.html
Who Should See the Film 'Patent Absurdity'? - Pick Your Brain
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| I have a request from End Software
| Patents' CiarÃn O'Riordan. He'd like your
| help.
|
| He says VC good guy Brad Feld is
| interested in in mailing out copies of the
| film Patent Absurdity (Full title: Patent
| Absurdity: How software patents broke the
| system) to 200 people -- politicians,
| influential people in companies, policy
| setters at standards groups, and whoever
| will be influential in the debate the
| breaks out post-Bilski -- and he'd like to
| have some help from you coming up with a
| list of who best to send to.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2010052418203684
Recent:
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
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