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It Appears That The Encyclopaedia Britannica Entry On Shaking Down GPS Providers With A Bogus Patent Needs Updating
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| The Encyclopaedia Britannica has not exactly
| been having a good decade. In the minds of
| much of the public (though, certainly not
| all), the usefulness of Britannica has long
| been surpassed by Wikipedia. A couple years
| ago, we gave Britannica's president a chance
| to explain his views on where Britannica is
| going, but it still seems like an uphill
| battle. Among the more ridiculous things that
| Britannica has tried to do is to also turn
| itself into a bit of a patent troll. Back in
| 2007, it sued a bunch of GPS companies for
| patent infringement. Scratching your head
| over why Britannica holds patents on GPS
| technology? The answer is even more
| convoluted than you can imagine.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100625/2351149966.shtml
Itâs true but hard to believe it â Attempt to patent Yoga
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| American attempt to patent yoga, puts Indians
| on their toes. Last week, Open Source Yoga
| Unity, a San Francisco-based non-profit group
| of yoga enthusiasts, filed a federal lawsuit
| attacking Choudhuryâs patent on 26 yoga
| postures.At the center of the suit is the
| question. ââWhose yoga is it anyway? â The
| saying, âWhatâs in the past, should stay in
| the pastâ â doesnât work here.
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http://findtut.com/it%E2%80%99s-true-but-hard-to-believe-it-attempt-to-patent-yoga-446850
Recent:
Encyclopedia Britannica loses patent ruling
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| A notorious patent case about a technology that allows people to search
| multimedia content may finally be coming to a close.
|
| Earlier this week, a judge ruled that two patents initially awarded to
| Encyclopedia Britannica are invalid. The patents were built on the infamous
| 5,241,671 patent first unveiled by Compton's NewMedia in 1993 at the Comdex
| trade show.
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http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/314259/encyclopedia_britannica_loses_patent_ruling
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