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Patently Messed Up

Patently Messed Up

By Guest Authors on October 23, 2012

What is innovation? It’s a simple enough question, except that it is not. Most innovation is synthesis of other ideas. Rare is there something entirely new that is invented. (And even then the argument can be made it is just synthesis.) And, is something really innovation if five other people come up with it concurrently? […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apple, bell, Elisha Gray, MagSafe, Patent office, patent troll, patents, Prior art, telecom

Fixing Software Patents, One Hack At Time

Fixing Software Patents, One Hack At Time

By Chirag Mehta on April 30, 2012

Software patents are broken and patent trolls are seriously hurting innovation. Companies are spending more money on buying patents to launch offensive strikes against other companies instead of competing by building great products. There are numerous patent horror stories I could outline where they are being used for all purposes except to innovate. In fact […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Creative Commons, crowdsourcing, innovation, patent troll, patents, Prior art

Nest and HoneyWell

Nest and HoneyWell

By Dave Michels on February 15, 2012

Nest hit a nerve. Thermostats are not the most popular topic for high-tech and Internet blogs – but Nest hit a nerve. Nest offers a thermostat for the home. Probably because it’s a San Francisco start-up, possibly because it has some leadership that once worked at Apple, or possibly because it has a nifty display […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged home automation, Honeywell, Motorola Mobility, nest, Patent, Patent infringement, patents, Random, Thermostat | 1 Response

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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