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Patent Nonsense Revisited
Blog Comment One aspect of patent law is that patent holders are required to license their patents fairly - you can't get a patent and then refuse to let anyone use it, or charge unreasonable amounts to your enemies.
[January 31, 2008, 8:31]
Patent Inspectors Strike Over Quality Fears
Talkback It's obvious that the whole patent thingy process is under grand scale manipulation across the board and from all sites and angles. Some huge powers really want to change things to their benefit and plenty of clueless decision makers around to help...
[May 10, 2006, 22:55]
Patent Loss Creates Pro-Microsoft Alliances
Talkback Although I see this as a tradegy for the web the truth of the matter is that if MS could have had that patent first they would have. Also, after all the wranglings of MS's patent-everything we-can strategy interfering with innovation such as web...
[September 26, 2003, 16:35]
Patent Loss Creates Pro-Microsoft Alliances
Talkback Give the patent to the W3C. In my honest opinion, Doyle should give up the lawsuit and GIVE the patent to the W3C. As for the patent itself - I'm actually amazed that it was granted in the first place; after all, displaying the output of an...
[October 2, 2003, 22:05]
Patent Could Give AOL An Edge In Messaging
News America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software. The patent (6449344), originally filed in 1997, and granted in September this year, gives AOL instant messaging subsidiary ICQ...
[December 18, 2002, 9:18]
Patent Holders On The Ropes
News The news in recent weeks and months has not been good for patent-holding members of standards groups, as one industry consortium after another has put the brakes on licensing plans. They're on the ropes," Carl Cargill, director of standards for Sun...
[December 3, 2002, 10:31]
Patent Blow For Microsoft As FAT Is Rejected
News As part of a re-examination, the US Patent Office has issued a preliminary rejection for a patent previously granted to Microsoft for a Windows file format. The agency ruled that, based on existing inventions at the time, the ideas behind the FAT...
[October 1, 2004, 11:45]
Patent Absurdities Are Plain Unsporting
Talkback this writer DOES NOT understand patents or patent law
[November 30, 2005, 16:55]
Patent Ruling Forces Office Upgrades
Talkback Hey, I hate Microsoft as much as anyone, but here they're just the victims of the completely broken US patent system. Software patents are evil. Right now, they're hurting Microsoft. Tomorrow, they can be used to stifle anyone.
[January 31, 2006, 16:19]
Patent Quality 'worst In Technology Industry'
Talkback re: Patent quality 'worst in technology industry' Just so you know, the IPO is an organization of large multi-national companies and their large law firms who are backing the present push to change US patent law.
[October 6, 2005, 22:39]
Patent System Needs A 'Slashdot For Prior Art'
Talkback How about more sensible patent law instead? Been there. Done that. Seriously, that idea has been tried several times. BountyQuest is one such project that comes to mind. However, the problem is not finding the prior art.
[April 24, 2006, 18:43]
Patent Nonsense Revisited
Blog Comment Correct me if I'm wrong - I'm not an IP lawyer - but am I right in thinking that there are 2 main differences between patent and copyright? Patent on the other hand covers a way of doing things - patent that way, and nobody else can do that task...
[January 31, 2008, 8:31]
Patent And Event Reignite IPhone Rumours
News A newly published Apple patent application has reignited rumours of the almost mythical "iPhone", on the eve of a press event in San Francisco. Last week the US Patent and Trademark office published a patent application that Apple made in March...
[September 11, 2006, 13:35]
Patent Fight Holds Up Web Standards
News That has patent and royalty critics up in arms, helping mire a committee searching for consensus in an impasse earlier this month. The W3C is hardly alone among standards groups in struggling with the patent question.
[July 11, 2002, 14:01]
Patent Directive Faces Fishy Future
Talkback Software patents have been available in europe now for many years, and are routinely granted by the european patent office. I think that the directive must be passed, and passed quickly, if we are to be certain of maintaining the present high...
[December 24, 2004, 10:04]
Patent Company Takes On Wi-Fi Industry
News A "technology licensing" company called Wi-LAN has sued 22 of the biggest names in wireless networking over alleged patent infringements. Wi-LAN has successfully negotiated patent licensing deals with a number of companies covering a broad range of...
[November 2, 2007, 9:45]
Patent Office Considers Wiki Peer Review
News The UK Patent Office is considering reforms to the patent system based on recommendations made in last week's Gowers Review. After being contacted by ZDNet UK on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the patent office confirmed it was considering measures...
[December 13, 2006, 16:28]
Patent Fears Haunt Developers Down Under
News Indicative of a growing interest in patents, attendees swelled the forum -- hosted by legal firm Baker & McKenzie and open source advocacy groups Linux Australia and Open Source Industry Australia -- to hear speakers discuss the many vagaries of...
[November 4, 2004, 10:43]
Patent Defeat For Microsoft And Autodesk
News A federal judge in Texas has delivered a setback to Microsoft and Autodesk in their patent infringement battle with product activation start-up Z4 Technologies. US District Judge Leonard Davis turned down the software makers' request for a new...
[August 24, 2006, 9:20]
"Patent Agreement"
Talkback I would like to point out that the so-called patent agreement does not say that Micro$oft and Novell will not sue EACH OTHER (a violation of the GPL), it states that neither company will sue the other's customers.
[February 20, 2007, 14:38]
