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Patent pending
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| Many big tech companies, including Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and others
| represented by the Coalition for Patent Fairness, are pushing hard for patent
| reform, citing the rising costs of IP claims against them. The threats and
| suits often come from companies that exist solely to license sometimes
| questionable patents, the companies say.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212902081
Shiny, Shiny Patents
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| It’s symptomatic of an oversized industry, but also of an inefficient
| one. “There are some who would stick the moniker ‘troll’ on Acacia. They
| don’t invent anything. They just buy patents and enforce them,” says Mark
| Webbink, a visiting professor at New York Law School and Director of the
| Center for Patent Innovations, an organization partnering with the US Patent
| and Trademark Office to tighten up the way patents are issued.
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http://www.minyanville.com/articles/index/a/21022
Recent:
Microsoft: Not much to show for 10,000 patents
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| Maybe. But innovation is what hasn't actually done Microsoft much good, at
| least as measured in terms of new product lines that generate material
| amounts of revenue for the company. It still gathers the vast majority of its
| revenue from Windows and Office, two product lines that have only
| incrementally improved (or, in the case of Vista, degenerated) over the past
| decade or two.
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| [...]
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| Companies and people buy products, not patents. I'm sure that 10,000 patents
| is a nice symbolic achievement for Microsoft, but 10,000 products would be
| better.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10160235-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_3-0-5
Patent system 'stifling science'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm
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