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Google Sued For Infringing Patent With AdSense
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| Google last week was sued by Web Tracking Solutions and Daniel Wexler for
| providing accounting information for its Internet ad publishers.
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| According to a complaint filed on July 31, Google's AdSense service violates
| Wexler's patent, "Third-party on-line accounting system and method therefor,"
| which was filed on Oct. 11, 1996, and granted Sept. 28, 1999.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/legal/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209902780
Google Sued For Patent Infringement For Keeping Track Of How Many Ads People
Click On
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| It still seems rather amusing (if not twisted) that some patent system
| supporters are trying to convince the world Google would be harmed by an
| absence of software patents. Instead, it seems increasingly obvious that it
| would only serve to help Google, who is a regular target of questionable
| patent infringement lawsuits. Take the latest such case as an example. A
| company by the name of Web Tracking Solutions, which ironically enough,
| doesn't appear to have much of a web presence (if any), has sued Google for
| patent infringement, claiming that its patent on third-party on-line
| accounting systems is being violated by Google's AdSense offering.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080804/1748481888.shtml
Dish plans to sustain legal fight with TiVo
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| "You know, I know this case inside and out," Ergen said in a conference call
| with analysts Monday. "We have changed that intellectual property in a way we
| don't violate (TiVo's patent) anymore. I'm just stubborn enough to say, 'Why
| am I going to pay for something that we don't violate?' "
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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/05/dish-plans-to-sustain-legal-fight-with-tivo/
Recent:
How TiVo won
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| And now, at last, there seems to be a path to profitability. A successful
| courtroom defense of its software patents laid the groundwork for what many
| analysts believe to be a coming period of exponential growth. In January, a
| federal appeals court upheld that digital recorders distributed by The Dish
| Network (owned by EchoStar (SATS)) infringed on several Tivo patents,
| including one that allows viewers to simultaneously view one show while
| watching another.
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/03/technology/simons_tivowalkup.fortune/?postversion=2008030505
Related:
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| ...Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols
| anyone can implement is communism...
|
| ...Mr. Gates' secret is out now--he too was a "communist;" he, too,
| recognized that software patents were harmful-until Microsoft
| became one of these giants...
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http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?part=rss&tag=5575731&subj=news.1071.20
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
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| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
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| [...]
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| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
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| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
Telling the Truth About Software Patents and Innovation
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| Would abolishing software patents, then, lessen innovation among large
| companies? Again, no. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle were founded before software
| could be patented. They couldn't afford to quit innovating simply because
| patent protection became unavailable.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071101145010612
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