Tag Archives: patents

software patents

2006.12.16 – 6:30 pm PST

In something which doesn’t make much sense until you read it, Software Freedom Law Center comes to Microsoft’s aid.
Why would lawyers who do pro bono work do this?
While it’s only a distant possibility the SFLC hopes that a Supreme Court ruling might even find that software patents are illegal.
*crosses fingers*
I personally think the obviousness test [...]

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2005.08.05 – 4:39 pm PDT

Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents

By RANDALL STROSS

“EXCITING,” “uninteresting” and “not exciting” don’t seem like technical terms. But they show up a lot in United States patent application No. 20,050,160,457, titled “Annotating Programs for Automatic Summary Generation.” It seems to be about baseball. The inventors [...]

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Eyes on the Prize

2005.01.28 – 3:56 am PST

from downhill battle:

Eyes on the Prize is the most important documentary ever made about the Civil Rights Movement–but copyright restrictions have kept it from the public for the past 10 years. We can’t let that continue. On February 8th help us bring this film back to a nationwide audience. Get the film today and organize [...]

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2005.01.13 – 9:25 pm PST

1994 IBM Manual Describes 2005 Google Patent
theodp writes “The USPTO kicked off 2005 by awarding Google a new patent for highlighting the search term in a retrieved document by changing at least one of a color, font, style, effect, and size. But more than a decade earlier, a 1994 IBM BookManager Library Reader User’s Guide [...]

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Bill Gates on Free Culture.

2005.01.06 – 11:30 am PST

from boingboing…
Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies
I imagine my blog-mate Cory might have a few things to say about this when he’s online again. In an interview on news.com, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described free culture advocates as a “modern-day sort of communists.” Well now.
Q: “In recent years, there’s been a [...]

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MARID Dumps Microsoft

2004.09.10 – 4:31 pm PDT

YEA FOR US, DOWN WITH MS IP PATENTS!
from larry seltzer at eweek:
Opinion: The standards group gives up on Microsoft contributions to the SMTP authentication proposal and instead suggests a hybrid alternative.
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After some weeks in the “Last Call” stage of the process, it became clear to everyone that most of the participants objected to the [...]

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