5 days ago by Rajiv Sarathy

Apple Computer has filed a patent application directed to disruptive advertising in an operating system that a New York Times article published today refers to as a gimmick. The first claim in the published patent application, which names Steve Jobs as the first inventor, recites: 1. A computer-impl ...

Patent Law Insights - patentlawinsights.com · 1 reference

7 days ago by Ruben

Having installed Fedora 11 alongside FreeBSD on my ThinkPad X40 and deciding I liked it, I went ahead this evening and installed the current beta release of Fedora 12. So far I’m really impressed, but one thing is worrying. After the OS was installed and I was presented with the default Gnome deskto ...

Rubenerd Blog - rubenerd.com · Rank: 63,186 · 9 references

9 days ago by mascha

Groklaw – Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! – Updated 2Xs. Posted in Programming Tagged: microsoft, patents, software, software patents, sudo

Martin Schaaf's Blog - infram.wordpress.com · 4 references

9 days ago

Ars Technica Justice Sotomayor, Perhaps “Speed Dating” Should Be Patent-Eligible After AllOUPblog (blog)In the article below he looks at speed dating in a whole new light. On Monday, November 9, 2009, the nine Justices of the US Supreme Court heard oral …No Love For Speed Dating Or Abstract Business ...

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10 days ago by glyn moody

There's some interesting turbulence in the blogosphere about the following call from Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SAP: To ensure the continued role of Java in driving economic growth, we believe it is essential to transition the stewardship of the language and platform into an ...

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10 days ago

In late 2008 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued an opinion in the Bilski case holding that inventor Bilski's patent claims, which covered a business method for hedging... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit AutomatingInvention.com for full links and other content. ] ...

Automating Invention - automatinginvention.com · 8 references

11 days ago by dbhalling

Based on the reports in the post “Bilski Case Provokes Skepticism from Justices” it is clear that the Supremes do not understand patent laws or innovation economics. It is unfortunate that the Supreme Court justices are so ignorant of patent law and innovation economics. Justice Sotomayor’s comment ...

State of Innovation - hallingblog.com · 4 references

11 days ago by Brad Feld

I had an incredible experience yesterday. My friend Phil Weiser, who is now the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (I prefer to call him America’s Top Cop on Agriculture) invited me, my partner Jason Mendelson, and my wife Amy Batchelor to attend th ...

Enterprise Irregulars - enterpriseirregulars.com · Rank: 20,591 · 14 references

11 days ago by dancotofanu

[ link] Is AES Encryption Crackable? [ link] Unlimited compute capacity coming ( IBM) [ link] Distributing a search engine’s index around the world [ link] Validity of software patents goes on trial [ link] New Version of Google Search Is Launching Soon

Dan Cotofanu - dancotofanu.wordpress.com · Rank: 188,409 · 1 reference

11 days ago by Victoria VanBuren

As previously discussed, today the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for Bilski v. Kappos, a high-stakes software patent case (the transcript is here). In Bilski, the Federal Circuit rejected patent claims involving a method of hedging risks in commodities trading. The U.S. Supreme Court is now ask ...

Disputing - karlbayer.com/blog · Rank: 15,884 · 18 references