Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 29 March 2007 14:12 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Tech companies pile on patents, complain about clutter
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | When a Microsoft Corp. patent application for educational technology
>>> | appeared in January, there was one problem: the idea had already
>>> | been developed as "BlueJ" nine years earlier, and by academics
>>> | with no connection to the software behemoth.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/tech-companies-pile-patents-complain/story.aspx?guid=%7BD8990A9C%2D2DF2%2D4893%2DA75F%2D488A6896D3EC%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
>>> http://tinyurl.com/3bujne
>>>
>>
>> So, MS get this far, find someone else already has this technology (or is
>> it really just an idea this time?) in place. Will they say 'Great, saves us
>> some work we'll just rent yours'? Or will they go off and change it enough
>> to make it look like a different idea so comes under a new patent? Or will
>> they dump it because they is a word that they have difficulty with?
>>
>> Does anyone want to take bets?
>>
>> In Linux you come up with an idea, do a search on sourceforge. If it is a
>> new idea then go ahead. If it turns out someone else already thought about
>> it then you can simply add your particular bent on the idea to the others
>> on that team.
>>
>> It's called 'Sharing', please write that word down in your jotter for
>> refference. Then try the word out, in private at first, but later when you
>> feel more confident try it out on someone in the next office cubicle.
>
> Even drag companies see the potential in this concept.
>
> I found the following amusing:
>
> System, method and program product for community review of documents
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Abstract: A system, method and program product for providing for
>| the review of documents by a community...
> `----
>
> http://www.patentdebate.com/PATAPP/20060218491?scache=22881039&spg=1
>
> Is USPTO patenting its own system to defend its territory? Amazing, isn't it?
> Worse than Blackboard's junk patent. Let them troll the system and waste
> their money...
>
Actually, we need the USPTO to start submitting patents to itself,
ideally in the thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. It could
disappear up itself in an internal recursive search.
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