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Abolish Software Patents
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| Software patent law must be simplified if
| not completely abolished. The concept that a
| routine or function is somehow "intellectual
| property" is ridiculous. How many times have
| you had an idea and found out someone else
| had the same idea? Patents were designed to
| prevent stealing of ideas but two
| independent people creating the same idea
| are not stealing from each other.
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http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/cutting-business-and-third-sector-regulations/abolish-software-patents
Video Prison: Why Patents Might Threaten Free Online Video
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| On June 20, 2009, nearly 150,000 people
| witnessed the death of 26-year-old Neda
| Agha-Soltan, but unlike the Iranians who
| passed her by in the street, they weren't
| bystanders to the post-election turmoil in
| Tehran that claimed her life. They were
| merely the first of over 600,000 who have
| since viewed a now-symbolic YouTube video
| that helped propel the opposition political
| movement forward in the following days of
| protest. The democratizing power of the Web
| lies in video like this one--not just
| because of its content, but because anyone
| with an Internet connection can contribute
| to a global dialogue.
|
| But imagine if the person who shot this
| video had been unable to post it anonymously
| or if YouTube viewers had to pay to watch
| it. If online videos were subject to patent
| licensing fees, users could be charged per-
| view to capture those fees. Beyond the
| ethical dilemma profiteering from a tragic
| death, video licensing could reduce the
| democratic nature of free and open Internet
| content to monetizable media. The funny cat
| videos would be gone forever (perhaps not
| the greatest loss), but so too would the
| movement-inspiring Nedas of the future
| remain unknown.
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http://oti.newamerica.net/blogposts/2010/video_prison_why_patents_might_threaten_free_online_video-33950
Ideas Are a Commodity, It's Execution Intelligence That Matters
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| First of all, ideas are commodities. Look at
| any industry, any product or service
| offering, and what you really see is
| improvement on the existing standard versus
| uniqueness in the offering. These
| improvements can be continuous or
| disruptive, but in either category, to the
| customer they are nothing more than
| incremental improvement around the financial
| return, usability, quality, or experience of
| your competitor. This explains why
| management teams are so important; if new
| offerings are commodities itâs execution by
| the management team â what I like to call
| execution intelligence â that makes the
| difference in the market.
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http://www.inc.com/rob-adams/2010/06/ideas-commodity-but-execution-intelligence-matters.html
Patent Calls Inc. buys Dallas competitor for $16M
http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2010/06/28/daily26.html
Recent:
Google Patents Displaying Patents
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| "Google has actually managed to patent
| displaying patents. The USPTO issued US
| Patent No. D603,866 to six Google inventors
| for their 'graphical user interface for
| display screen of a communications
| terminal.' Among the six inventors is the
| guy who introduced Google Patents.
| Ironically, Google Patents can't seem to
| find the new Google patent for Google
| Patents."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2019219/Google-Patents-Displaying-Patents
Amazon Scores Gift-Delivery Patent
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| In May, the USPTO rejected Amazon.com's
| patent claims (PDF) for its Method and
| System for Placing a Purchase Order Via a
| Communications Network (a 1-Click spin-
| off). At the time, a USPTO Examiner cited
| Bilski, explaining that elements of CEO
| Jeff Bezos' gift-delivery invention 'may be
| performed largely within the human mind,'
| coming to essentially the same conclusion a
| NY Post reporter arrived at in 2002. But
| Amazon's attorneys have worked their legal
| wordsmithing magic (PDF), convincing the
| USPTO that 'obtaining delivery information
| for a gift from one or more information
| sources other than the gift giver and
| recipient' is indeed novel and patentable.
| A Notice of Allowance for the patent was
| mailed to Amazon on November 17th, just in
| time for Holiday Season injunction-giving!"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/149216/Amazon-Scores-Gift-Delivery-Patent
Patent That: Reporter Invents Way to Reach PTO Director
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| Journalists who cover Washington know the
| drill: top bureaucrats can be very hard to
| get through to, especially when you need to
| reach them the most.
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| So when ABA Journal senior writer Terry
| Carter got nowhere in his recent effort to
| reach Patent and Trademark Office director
| David Kappos through spokesman Peter Pappas
| for a story he was writing, he decided on a
| characteristically novel approach: on
| Tuesday he drafted and posted a humorous
| patent application for a "method to get an
| interview with USPTO Director David Kappos."
| Edward Adams, editor and publisher of the
| ABA Journal, wrote in this story at the
| Journal Web site, "We figured the problem
| was that Carter was not speaking the
| agency's language."
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/11/patent-that-reporter-finds-novel-way-to-reach-pto-head.html
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