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The patent office in crisis: 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going'
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| Mr. Kappos announced his opposition to business method patents last year by
| stating that "[y]ou're creating a new 20-year monopoly for no good reason."
| Thus, it is unclear where Mr. Kappos will attempt to draw the line between
| software and business method inventions worthy of patent protection.
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http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/story/5576467/
Car insurance patents threaten consumer choice
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| Under a major decision handed down last fall, the United States Court of
| Appeals for the Federal Circuit interpreted federal law to make it much more
| difficult to patent "business methods."
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| The so-called "Bilski" decision essentially ended a decade of looser
| standards the same court introduced in 1998 with a decision known as State
| Street. That ruling opened the floodgates for business-method patents like
| Amazon’s one-click process to buy goods online.
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http://www.insure.com/car-insurance/patents.html
CT firm seeks to market safe-driving product
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| A Stamford patent agent and a Massachusetts actuary have paired to seek a
| patent on an insurance product aimed at promoting safety among teen
| motorists.
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| Mark Nowotarski, president of Markets, Patents & Alliances LLC, said today
| the U.S. Patent Office could rule by late June on their patent application
| (No. 20090063201) filed last October for the SoberTeen Driving Insurance
| product.
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http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news8988.html
It's a patent troll:
http://marketsandpatents.com/about.html
Recent:
Are Patents "Monopolies"?
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| On occasion you get some defender of patents who is upset when we use the
| m-word to describe these artificial state-granted monopoly rights. For
| example here one Dale Halling, a patent attorney (surprise!) posts about "The
| Myth that Patents are a Monopoly" and writes, " People who suggest a patent
| is a monopoly are not being intellectually honest and perpetuating a myth to
| advance a political agenda."
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| [...]
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| Now it is, indeed, clear that a patent is a monopoly grant to someone that
| permits them to charge above-market prices; this is exactly the goal of the
| patent law: to provide this monopoly profit to inventors so as to incentivize
| them to innovate and file for patents. And it is why, for example, Blackberry
| paid over $600 million to NTP in a recent patent suit; and it is why
| consumers will have to pay more for Blackberry services than they otherwise
| would, etc. Did NTP have "monopoly power" as defined by the government's
| antitrust scheme? I don't know. Probably not. But did they extort
| RIM/Blackberry by use of the government-granted patent monopoly? Of course.
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/010272.asp
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