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The formula on which the eye recognition system invented by John Daugman is
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/european_patent_office/3473623612/
Store Payment Info In Your Online Store? Watch Out For Patent Infringement
Lawsuits
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| As for the patents in question, they're all a variation on a "method and
| apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic
| tokens." The specific patents are 7,376,621, 7,249,099, 7,328,189 and
| 7,177,838. Reading through the claims, this seems like an incredibly typical
| online system for storing payment info and seeing if the person can actually
| pay. Since the patent system defenders among our readers get quite upset
| whenever I say something seems "obvious" to me, let's flip this around. Can
| anyone explain how these concepts were not obvious at the time of filing?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090602/2115555102.shtml
Recent:
Research on Copyright and Innovation
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| So, in that context, I’ve released my research report as a working paper in
| the Social Science Research Network’s online repository of scholarly works. I
| haven’t yet had a chance to read the Conference Board’s reports as closely as
| I plan to over the coming days, but I’ll be curious to see how the reports
| align with my own research on the links between IP and innovation, and with
| my independent policy recommendations.
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http://www.jeremydebeer.ca/content/view/254/2/
Intellectual Monopoly is an Unnecessary Evil
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| In a rush to stimulate the economy, the Obama administration is touting
| various "visionary" plans to make the American economy more progressive, more
| innovative, and more forward-looking by subsidizing politically-motivated
| projects like "green" technology. These hands-on policies will be
| ineffective. Recent research suggests that a much more effective way to
| accomplish the same goals would be to eliminate intellectual monopoly and to
| reduce the regulatory burdens on innovators.
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| According to conventional wisdom in economics, temporary monopoly
| rights--patents--are necessary to give people incentives to come up with
| newer, better ideas. After all, if people who came up with new ideas could
| see those new ideas copied without cost by competitors, why bother spending
| the time and energy? Hence, we have patents.
|
| [...]
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| Progress is also slowed by the regulation of food and drugs, which requires
| years of extensive and expensive testing before a drug can be approved for
| sale. This means that some lives are saved because people are restricted to
| hyper-safe drugs, but the lives saved come at the cost of lives that are lost
| because the appearance of these drugs on the market is delayed. Further,
| other drugs that would be useful but might carry greater risks never make it
| to the market to begin with.
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/010014.asp
Microsoft Product Improvement Is Not Innovation
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| Wow. To those who say that there are no Microsoft fans, the messages from my
| last blog entry prove you wrong. One of the complaints was my assertion that
| Microsoft does not innovate anymore; perhaps the problem is in the definition
| of that word. To me, slow but steady improvement in existing products and
| services isn't innovation, it's maintenance and support. Those are important
| things, no doubt, especially to existing customers, but they're not the same
| as innovation.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/microsoft_produ.html
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