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Frontier Communications sues to block Google Voice
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2211927620100622
As Google Voice Opens For All... It's Hit With Patent Infringement Claims
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| Oh, and if you want to see how continuation
| patents are abused, you can check out the
| original patent application, which focuses
| on something quite different than the
| eventual patent. It's much more about
| switching calls from one line to another.
| It's only in the later patent (not filed
| until well after Google Voice was widely
| established in the market), that Frontier
| made the patent sound a lot more like what
| Google Voice actually does.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100622/1656549922.shtml
USPTO Grants Bezos Patent On '60s-Era Chargebacks
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| theodp writes "Chargebacks on computing
| resources are certainly nothing new, dating
| to the '60s. But five decades later, the
| USPTO has deemed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos'
| invention â Dynamic Pricing of Web Services
| Utilization â worthy of a new patent. From
| the patent: 'Utilization of a storage
| resource may be measured in terms of a
| quantity of data stored (e.g., bytes,
| megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), etc.) per
| unit of time (e.g., second, day, month,
| etc.). Similarly, communication bandwidth
| utilization may be measured in terms of a
| quantity of data transmitted per unit of
| time (e.g., megabits per second).
| Processing resource utilization may be
| measured as an aggregate number of units of
| processing effort (e.g., central processing
| unit (CPU) cycles, transactions, etc.)
| utilized, or as a rate of processing effort
| utilization per unit of time (e.g., CPU
| cycles or transactions per second).' Sound
| familiar, Greyglers? Another example of why
| it's not wise to grant software patents
| when people don't know much about computer
| history."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/26/2020237/USPTO-Grants-Bezos-Patent-On-60s-Era-Chargebacks
Recent:
Making online orders with a nod or a smile? Bezos seeks patent
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| Amazon.com is famous for its 1-Click ordering
| system. But what about 1-Nod ordering? Amazon
| CEO Jeff Bezos is seeking a patent on a
| system that would let people make purchases
| with a nod, a smile or even a raise of the
| eyebrow.
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| Called "Movement recognition as input
| mechanism," it envisions a computing device
| that could interpret certain facial
| expressions and enhance or potentially
| replace "conventional input devices such as
| keypads and touch screen."
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/06/making_online_orders_with_a_nod_or_a_smile_bezos_seeks_patent.html
Patent Office Proposes Speed Lane (And Slow Lane) For Patents; Treating The Symptom, Not The Disease
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| Of course, none of this will help. It just
| means that companies with more money to
| spend will jump to the fast lane, clogging
| that fast lane, and lengthening the wait
| times for those who don't want to spend
| that much money. It's difficult to see how
| that helps. The real issue is vastly
| cutting back on what is considered
| patentable. Move way from having companies
| feeling the need to patent anything and
| everything and get them back to focusing
| on competing in the marketplace. If there
| must be a patent system, let it be limited
| to the rare cases where there is actual
| proof that the gov't granted monopoly
| makes sense (if those exist) and where
| there's no likelihood of independent
| invention coming up with the same thing at
| about the same time (a key point that
| should determine obviousness).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100603/1550369677.shtml
Google, US Patent Office Partner To Offer Bulk Data Downloads
http://searchengineland.com/google-us-patent-office-partnership-43458
Update: Patent office head describes three-track system
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225300287
USPTO unveils patent fast-track plan
http://www.inventorsdigest.com/?p=3808
PTO Proposes Pay to Play
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/06/pto-proposes-pay-to-play.html
Patent Fast Track Proposed
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704515704575282951991894276.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_business
Coming Soon: A Faster Patent Application Process?
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/06/03/coming-soon-a-faster-patent-application-process/
Patent Office Proposes Pricey, Expedited Review
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10820012
PTO Proposes Three-Track Patent Examination Process
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| The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
| Thursday unveiled a new initiative aimed
| at giving patent applicants more control
| over how quickly their applications will
| be processed.
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http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/06/pto-proposes-threetrack-patent.php
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