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NTP is the New SCO

NTP is the New SCO

By Zoli Erdos on July 9, 2010

NTP, the shell company whose only business is to extract ransom from real businesses does not sit on the $600 they extorted from RIM.  They are now suing just about all the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, LG and Motorola. Is NTP the new SCO? Related posts: NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others [...]

Posted in General | Tagged Apple, cellular, extortion, google, HTC, intellectual property, ip, lawsuit, lg, microsoft, mobile market, motorola, ntp, patent troll, patents, sco, smartphones, wireless

My New Favorite Old Blog…

My New Favorite Old Blog…

By Zoli Erdos on March 10, 2010

Image by TechShowNetwork via Flickr My new favorite old blog is former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, blog.   It’s at the old URL, but has a new title: What I Couldn’t Say…   The “About” section says: I think I’ve said pretty much everything I could say as CEO of Sun Microsystems. The more interesting stuff was [...]

Posted in General | Tagged Apple, bill gates, blogging, jonathan schwartz, microsoft, patents, sun

Finally Some Common Sense: Business Methods Not Patentable

By Zoli Erdos on October 30, 2008

Reuters reports: A U.S. patent appeals court ruled on Thursday that business methods, such as Amazon.com Inc’s  one-click to buy goods on the Internet, cannot be patented. This is great news for innovation.  Why?   I leave the analysis to Techdirt’s supersmart Mike Masnick: Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents.  Related articles by Zemanta [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged innovation, patents | 1 Response

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