Should Software Patents die?
When the Supreme Court in USA made a recent decision, a lot of people weren’t sure what to make of it. The court didn’t write down a clear, black and white decision on what constituted a valid patent and many on both the pro and con software patent sides of the debate [...]
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Should IT industry get itself out of patenting system?
ID Analytics Secures Identity-Based Fraud Detection Patent
ID Analytics, Inc., the leader in on-demand identity intelligence, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the issuance of U.S. Patent Number 7,686,214 for the company’s system and method for fraud detection using multiple historical identity records.
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Is Microsoft A Patent Troll?
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, says that Microsoft is a patent troll. Given that Microsoft has just sued the company for patent infringement just this month, that comment might not be a surprise.
First, lets’ look at the definition of patent troll from Wikipedia:
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‘Green Technology’ Given Quicker Path Through Patent Office
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said it’s amending a program to reduce by 12 months the processing time for inventions intended to improve the environment and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Apple vs HTC
Apple Inc. has filed a patent infringement against HTC on 2nd March 2010 at the US District Court for the District of Delaware.
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Microsoft’s Long File Name patent upheld by German court
Microsoft’s contentious patent describing the mechanism used to store long filenames on FAT file systems without breaking compatibility with old applications has been upheld by the German appeal court after a prior court decision ruled it invalid. This mirrors a 2006 decision by the USPTO concerning the equivalent US patent.
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Apple Patents Mobile E-Ticketing Solution
The article on Patently Apple,(a blog dedicated to unearthing secret patents filed by Apple Inc.) revealed that the e-ticketing technology, called ‘Concert Ticket +’, will allow users to convert their smartphones into e-tickets, which can be scanned at the venue of the concert, thereby eliminating the risk of forgetting one’s ticket and reducing the use [...]
Yahoo Seeks Patent on Method of Detecting ‘Web Page Spam Links’!
Yahoo! Inc., owner of second-most used search engine after Google Inc.’s, is trying to patent a method of detecting artificially promoted Web pages.
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Apple in ‘iPad’ legal dispute
Apple bought the trademark from Fujitsu only for another company to claim it!
Apple recently bought the ‘iPad’ trademark from Fujitsu for an undisclosed price following months of debate as to which company owned the name.
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Apple’s sneaky patent - mobile 3D for iPhone?
When patent number 20100079356 was published on the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website at the beginning of this month(1st April 2010), it was first assumed that it was an April Fool joke. But now it appears that plans for Apple to develop electronic spectacles that will allow the wearer to watch 3D films [...]