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EC pushes on with Europe-wide patents
Talkback In short, a legal dictatorship. So why are we still listening to the proposers of that? Or even considering giving them half, or even 10%, of what they want? Isn't past behaviour a good indicator of future behaviour?
[March 20, 2006, 20:55]
Java start-up sues Sun over software patents
Talkback It's Java, no one cares.
[March 21, 2006, 10:09]
Microsoft patents widely used IM feature
Talkback And what will happen when everybody patents their little 4-8 lines of process dependent code? One wonders if the officials in the US patent office have any coding/"software development" credentials of any kind, or do they just patent everything...
[October 8, 2003, 10:07]
Microsoft patents widely used IM feature
Talkback I remember using the "talk" command in unix a very long time ago, which was a dumb terminal IM. This was before Windows was even invented, so it's hard to see how Microsoft can be claiming the patent on it.
[October 8, 2003, 10:08]
Microsoft patents widely used IM feature
Talkback This is "patently" wrong, although sadly pretty much par for the course from the Yanks. Taking a lesson from their "Wild-West" past they are persuing a policy of IP "claim jumping" either by acquisition or spurious "invention", this "invention...
[October 8, 2003, 13:36]
Microsoft patents 'to-do' list
Talkback why does zd uk hate microsoft? cry babies.
[June 9, 2004, 22:05]
Survey: European patents have quality problems
Talkback The European Parliament actually has the power to block the directive and to propose amendments, and they have done a pretty good job in the first reading. So there is a point in voting, and UKIP in fact seems to be a very good choice, although for...
[June 10, 2004, 15:55]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback Glad to hear some politicians haven't swallowed the contra-factual drivel and mind-bogglingly fallacious reasoning coming from the likes of EICTA, the EPO and the UKPO. When Nokia's IPR department can explain exactly why innovation and progress in...
[May 3, 2005, 20:31]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback The Software Patent thingy should be dropped all together because even if a small fragment of it survives the payed for lobbiest and clueless politicians will, over time, turn it into the monster it currently is.
[May 3, 2005, 21:20]
Microsoft patents 'to-do' list
Talkback Um double clicking? What if I wish to fire two shots in rapid sucession in a game like Counter Strike? Can I be prosecuted for breach of intellectual copyright? Maybe they should patent vacuum cleaners, so they can continue to suck alot.
[June 11, 2004, 0:28]
Microsoft patents 'to-do' list
Talkback You can count on some companies to innovate.
[June 11, 2004, 6:15]
Microsoft patents 'to-do' list
Talkback .and you can count on some companies to capitalize on existing innovation and tell their marketing department to act like they invented everything from sliced bread onwards.
[June 12, 2004, 12:22]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback The Campaign for Creativity, which striongly SUPPORTS the patentability of Computer Implemented inventions, is delighted that the neo-Fascist UKIP are opposing the CII Directive. We certainly don't want them on our side!
[May 3, 2005, 21:54]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback The only "Neo-Fascist" in this case is Simon Gentry. Simon Gentry is a well-known PAID political LOBBYIST! He is the personal ENEMY of European freedom-lovers, programmers and IT workers in general. YES, I SAID PERSONAL ENEMY!
[May 3, 2005, 23:26]
Protests derail software patents vote
Talkback My impression is that one of the motivating factors behind this clarification of the patent situation (which is a dubious description of the potential result of this directive, especially if various claims are correct with respect to exemptions...
[September 2, 2003, 12:23]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback I would vote for them, if i were English.
[May 4, 2005, 11:44]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback > is delighted that the neo-Fascist UKIP Maybe someone needs to give this man a dictionary. How can a party that is a strong supporter of European free trade and honest friendly relations with Europe, but opposed to centralised rule by unelected...
[May 5, 2005, 11:12]
Protests derail software patents vote
Talkback I'm not sure that "America has become that which it once opposed". The ultimate goal of capitalism is to establish yourself as the single, dominant supplier of goods and/or services. This might be contrary to the belief that the aim of capitalism...
[September 3, 2003, 10:59]
Protests derail software patents vote
Talkback Patents are in the interest of the business elite because they more firmly lock into place the priveleges of large, successful businesses while preventing competition from smaller companies and the poorer countries.
[September 3, 2003, 15:11]
UK patents on the increase
News The importance of HP's research division, which took a hit earlier this month when it lost one of its main technology evangelists, was underlined this week as it took top spot in the annual league table for new UK patents.
[August 9, 2005, 16:25]
