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Software patents are dirty scum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fj2goqWxxM
Survey challenges popular beliefs about high-tech startup patents
http://www.physorg.com/news196533327.html
Nibi Softwareâs collaborative learning products offer education, training â anywhere, any time
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| What makes Nibi unique â and led to its
| application for patents â is the idea of
| adding comments to video or voice recordings
| so they can be searched and shared.
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http://www.finance-commerce.com/article.cfm/2010/06/25/Nibi-Softwares-collaborative-learning-products-offer-education-training--anywhere-any-time
NPEs are trolls:
That Troll Session-slashdot, IOU an apology
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| Iâve just sat through the IPBC session
| titled âGetting to Grips with NPEsâ. Now
| that was a session which generated real
| emotion in me, and showed how amazing us
| humans are at spending time and effort on
| things that are ultimately meaningless.
|
| I went through a large range of emotions. I
| started out neutral . Here we go, just
| another session about trolls, trolls
| justifying why even trolls do social good
| (we help small inventors make money from
| their IP!-well done, good for you), lawyers
| arguing over technicalities (rule 11, blah,
| blah blah), the anti-troll lobby screaming
| about how unfair the system is to allow this
| abuse and Dan McCurdy (weâll come back to
| him later) giving his troll stats.
|
| I quickly got into irritated. Mainly as the
| session was dominated by American accents
| justifying their respective positions. Mild
| anger soon followed. More American accents,
| more justification, more self-justifying
| arguments.
|
| Soon followed by seething. Vigorous
| agreement with Nokia (great speech, really
| great speech Dr Schneider) and Technicolor
| (ex Thomson, good âI hate trollsâ speech
| Beatrice de RussÃ). I found myself wanting
| to applaud. Câmon the anti-troll
| lobby!!!There was little room for middle
| ground in the room. And, for me, the anti-
| troll camp has my lifetime vote.
|
| [...]
|
| Dan McCurdy is a legend in the IP world. An
| IBMer under Marshall Phelps, a licensing
| expert/jobbing consultant in Thinkfire (Iâm
| sure I recall his profile with a dollar
| amount against his face for his lifetime
| licensing dollars generated), now AST. But
| how can these two statements be reconciled?
| Statement 1, timed at about 46 minutes in âI
| would be delighted to close down AST
| tomorrow if the NPE problem went away!!â
| (hooray!!), and then, at around 58 minutes
| in âWhen we buy patents in for our AST
| members, we commit to sell them within 12
| months, and we sell them to the highest
| bidder, we sell to operating companies,
| aggregators, andâ.to NPEsâ.
|
| Excuse me, come againâ.WHAT!!! You
| perpetuate the problem by selling on
| patents, to NPEâs, who can then sue those
| who donât have licenses as they arenât your
| members.
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http://www.tangible-ip.com/2010/that-troll-session-slashdot-iou-an-apology.htm
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