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Break IT with Kodak
Leader Yet cases like Kodak vs Sun do not say "innovate and be safe": they say "innovate and prepare to be eviscerated by lawyers". Remember this, when powerful people tell you about freedom to innovate. Because IP is utterly intangible, it exists only...
[October 5, 2004, 11:40]
Despair greets software patent bill
Talkback The necessity to innovate to compete effectively did very well for the software industry, long before software patents cast their ugly shadow over the field and it still does. The profit from the sale of competetive products and services is hardly...
[March 9, 2005, 16:50]
Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
Talkback Avoiding software patents will ensure that our developers, designers and technologists are free to innovate, unhindered by aggresive patent-portfolio hoarding mega-corporations and that small businesses can compete with larger businesses
[December 15, 2004, 11:32]
I absolutely agree
Talkback However, they continue to innovate and patent such innovations to prevent competitors from implementing technology which will harm the monopoly and so it is still in the interests of all monopolies to innovate (or buy up small companies with...
[May 12, 2009, 12:30]
Google hits back at Microsoft
Talkback Microsoft is failing to innovate and is stricking out in any way it can. Microsoft sued google first, then they want to patent emoticons. ahhh No Samual. Microsoft is suing Google FIRST! Get your history straight.
[July 23, 2005, 20:35]
Despair greets software patent bill
Talkback Regarding your comment "The necessity to innovate to compete effectively did very well for the software industry, long before software patents cast their ugly shadow over the field and it still does", I beg to differ.
[January 27, 2006, 13:46]
Software patent protest to block Web sites
Talkback I fail to see how the US system of patents has limited the countries ability to innovate and make money in the area of software. Why is a "drift" towards a US patent system such a bad thing when it is an intrinsic part of the software capital of...
[August 26, 2003, 17:48]
US tech firms lock horns over patent law
News He said the state of the patent system has left small businesses like his "afraid to innovate". A rift has arisen among larger technology companies and smaller venture capital firms over whether dramatic changes to US patent law are necessary.
[March 30, 2007, 8:58]
Venture-capital firms oppose US patent changes
News He said the state of the patent system has left small businesses like his "afraid to innovate". A rift has arisen among larger technology companies and smaller venture capital firms over whether dramatic changes to US patent law are necessary.
[April 2, 2007, 11:36]
Microsoft, Nikon agree patent-sharing deal
News Both parties will be able to innovate openly with each other's technologies, enabling new features and products to come to market. The companies believe that this patent cross-licensing agreement will substantially benefit customers of consumer...
[August 28, 2008, 9:43]
Kodak wins Java patent case
News The rest of the world will out-innovate US companies, because they won't be running with the patent ball-and-chain attached to their ankles, holding them back. At a minimum, patents that aren't actively being used by the patent holder in any way in...
[October 4, 2004, 12:25]
Open source patent library launched
News No matter what your stand on software patents, and I oppose them, I call on developers to contribute to the OSDL patent commons project because there is strength in numbers and when individual contributions are collected together it creates a...
[August 10, 2005, 12:25]
Red Hat and Novell hit with Linux patent suit
News Like other software patents, this one is less likely to have any effect in the UK, but the case will be an interesting test of the open-source community's ability to innovate around patents and other restrictions, according to Andrew Katz, a...
[October 12, 2007, 17:53]
US patent ruling bodes well for tech
News The standard articulated in this case should limit the outrageous business method and software patents that we have recently seen, without undermining the incentive to innovate in these areas. The case in question was rejected because the patent at...
[October 31, 2008, 12:40]
The patent poison spreads
Leader Without a wholesale reform of the law and the introduction of a protection regime designed to fit the unique nature of software development, we will lose the freedom to innovate. Not only do they threaten the ability of people to write original...
[April 14, 2005, 13:40]
Open-source advocate attacks patent laws
News Certain companies are in a better position to innovate and develop than others," Lessig said. Copyright and patent law, ostensibly designed to protect innovation, now have become tools large companies can use to maintain their dominance and control...
[August 30, 2001, 8:46]
Lineo jumps into software-patents fray
News Our agreement with Lineo clears the way for both companies to innovate and broaden the market with superior technology and products," he said in a statement. Lineo is the first to publicly license FSMLabs' technology, which was controversially...
[August 7, 2001, 17:16]
We don't know the details
Talkback Notwithstanding, certain key technologies do require to be open standards rather the exclusive property of powerful monopolies and patent trolls, so that IT can develop and innovate in a satisfactory manner in the interests of all of us.
[March 31, 2009, 18:09]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback MS would have no incentive to innovate and create an even better mousetrap. Brent, I said "Why invent a better mousetrap when you hold the patent and your customers have no choice but to buy the one you choose to sell?
[January 14, 2005, 7:45]
Open source comes of age
News Stallman and his fellow supporters of free software argued that an increasing number of restrictions were taking control of computer tools out of the hands of the user, and making it harder for programmers to innovate.
[March 13, 2006, 17:10]
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