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GraphOn files patent suit against Google
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| Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging
| that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube services violate
| GraphOn's patents
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| GraphOn, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., acquired the patents through its
| acquisition of Network Engineering Software, a privately held network
| software company, in 2005. The suit was filed in United States District Court
| in the Eastern District of Texas.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10018876-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Qualcomm: Interview with a cellular vampire
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| CEO Paul Jacobs, in his opening address to the collected mass ranks of US and
| European analysts, turned this image on its head – expressing his “palpable
| relief” that the Nokia patents dispute had been resolved – and on terms that
| will not wreck the greater part of Qualcomm’s profits – those through royalty
| payments, and talked about having been smashed around for the past three
| years, and that now that it was over, the settlement driving huge positive
| momentum for his company.
|
| [...]
|
| Jacobs added: “We are not quite so worried about that action since we have
| workarounds for the Broadcom patents which are already in chips, and that
| give us negotiating leverage. We have worked through multiple decision trees
| on the outcomes of that legal action and although we’d like to see it
| resolved, whichever way its goes it will not have as great an effect as the
| Nokia action.”
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/qualcomm_vampire/
Dell cloud computing™ denied
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| Dell has lost its bid to trademark the widely-used term “cloud computing”.
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| The computer giant had filed an application to trademark the phrase with the
| US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 2007.
|
| However, according to blogger Sam Johnston, Dell’s application was officially
rejected by the USPTO late last week.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/dell_cloud_computing_denied/
Recent:
PTO Rains on Dell's 'Cloud Computing' Trademark
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| Well, that didn't last long.
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| Dell had received near-final approval for its trademark application of the
| term "cloud computing," but the US Patent and Trademark Office canceled
| its "Notice of Allowance" on Tuesday and changed the status to "returned to
| examination."
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http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3763741
Has Dell lost its mind?
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| Dell did not succeed in the 1990s as an intellectual property company. It
| succeeded by delivering precisely what buyers wanted, with bulletproof
| quality, at the lowest possible price.
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| In an open source world these are still the keys to success. Not intellectual
| property. Precision, value, quality.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2759
Dell defends its 'cloud computing' trademark bid
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| Dell's trademark of the ubiquitous, commonly used term "cloud computing" is
| one of those eyebrow-raising events that immediately begs the question: How
| is that possible?
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| The simple answer is that Dell is proving that it is possible; the firm's in
| nearly the final stretch of the US Patent and Trademark Office approval
| process.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2063408763&rid=-50
Trademark Insanity
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| It's bad enough that we have to deal with struggles over the use of
| trademarks that have become generic terms, like "Xerox" and "Coke", and
| trademarks that were already generic terms among specialists, such
| as "Windows", but a new low in trademarking has been reached by the joint
| efforts of Dell and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
| reports that Dell has applied for a trademark on the term "cloud computing".
| The opposition period has already passed and a notice of allowance has been
| issued. That means that it is very likely that the application will soon
| receive final approval.
|
| [...]
|
| In other words, this is a pure example of theft from the public domain.
| Speakers of English have a term, "cloud computing", which the US government
| is on the verge of privatizing and assigning exclusively to Dell. Other
| companies providing similar services will not be able to describe what they
| are doing as "cloud computing" anymore than Nike will be able to describe its
| shoes as Reeboks.
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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=434
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