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Many software Patents to be invalidated by PTO ... Source: slashdot.org --- 1 day ago
An anonymous reader writes "The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software Patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc. In a series of cases including In re Nuijten, In re Comiskey and In re Bilski, the Patent and Trademark Office has argued in favor of imposing new restrictions on the scope of patentable subject matter set forth by Congress in article 101 of the Patent Act. In the most recent of these three — the currently pending en banc Bilski appeal — the Office takes the position that process inventions generally are unpatentable unless they 'result in a physical transformation of an article' or are 'tied to a particular machine.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ... Source: reddit.com --- 1 day ago
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Unwired View just dug through several of Samsung's Patents to get at what the types of form factors possibly rolling out of their trough in the near future. They're all weird. There's sliders three keyboard pieces that form together to make one Voltron keyboard, one that has a dual-screen clamshell (which we've seen before in other people's Patents ), one with OLED hard-keys that change displays depending on where you are (think Optimus ) and one with a display that stretches from normal size to King Kong/Naomi Watts/weird bestiality theme size. We're not sure how these will actually play out on phones, but it's good that Samsung's not standing still. [ Unwired View ] ... Source: www.codeproject.com --- 1 day ago
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/07/the-death-of-go.html [ ^ ] "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 ... Source: www.neowin.net --- 1 day ago
Florida based company "Channel Intelligence" filed for patent infringement on Tuesday against multitude of people and companies that offer "wishlists". Specifically, the wishlists in question are lists of desired products from the defendant's websites that the user would like to purchase, which are then stored in some form or other on a database. CI are claiming that allowing users to create these lists needs their permission as they are the owners of patent 6,917,941 - " A method for configuring a database system to store information regarding a plurality of items ", which was issued in July 2005. Strangely (or not), CI have not made claims against larger companies such as Amazon, Ebay and other large online retailers, all of whom are offering exactly what CI have patented. Surely the USPTO needs to start reviewing it's practices for Intellectual Property if more and more frivolous 'inventions' like this are going to become weapons for taking other peoples money? View: US Patent 6,917,941 Link: Full Story @ TechCrunch Read full story... ... Source: www.marketwire.com --- 1 day ago
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) On July 23, 1998, a landmark federal appeals court ruling upheld Patents for software-implemented inventions and methods of doing business. Ten years and thousands of business-method patent applications later, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is considering whether to undo that decision in part or completely. ... Source: www.linuxjournal.com --- 17 hours ago
No matter what you think of them, software Patents can be troublesome things. The Open Source community has certainly had its patent tribulations, and even companies that depend on their own Patents to build the bottom line have run afoul of the patent police on more occasions than they want to remember. That may be a thing of the past, however, as new decisions out of the Patent and Trademark Office seem poised to send software Patents packing once and for all. read more ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
Corante Jul 24 2008 4:52AM GMT ... Source: blog.internetnews.com --- 18 hours ago
From the 'really' files:PORTLAND. Who's afraid of Patents? Not Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu Linux and CEO of Canonical. He figures he's 'REALLY' got it covered. In a session at OSCON, Shuttleworth stood in for one of his Canonical... ...
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PORTLAND. Microsoft's Sam Ramji is a popular guy here at OSCON. He literally got mobbed after giving a talk by open source types angry at Microsoft for a long list of grievances.Ramji delivered a keynote address here in which he... ... Source: blog.internetnews.com --- 1 day ago
PORTLAND. Keith Bergelt CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN) took the OSCON stage this morning with a key message - Patents have a place.The OIN was launched back in 2005 as a way to collect Patents and then make them... ... Source: www.electronista.com --- 1 day ago
Hours before going to trial, both Nokia and Qualcomm have reached an all-encompassing settlement over a year-old patent feud between the two companies, which could save them hundreds of millions in legal fees and help Nokia focus its development effo... ... Source: forums.dailyrotten.com --- 17 hours ago
Patent Law Blog | Submitted by: pootpoot "In a series of cases including In re Nuijten , In re Comiskey and In re Bilski , the Patent and Trademark Office has argued in favor of imposing new restrictions on the scope of patentable subject matter set forth by Congress in §101 of the Patent Act. In the most recent of these threeâthe currently pending en banc Bilski appealâthe Office takes the position that process inventions generally are unpatentable unless they "result in a physical transformation of an article" or are "tied to a particular machine." Discuss... ... Source: www.caymanmama.com --- 1 day ago
San Francisco, California (CaymanMama.com) – Monogram Biosciences, Inc. announced that the three prime United State Patents for proprietary VeraTag technology (United States patent numbers 7,402,397; 7,402,398; 7,402,399) have been issued. The Patents are wide and relate with the use of Monogram’s VeraTag technology for the methods of profiling as well as detecting protein complexes including protein heterodimers and homodimers. In addition, the European Patent number 1278760 has been issued as well. Being able to profile and detect protein complexes is essential since the proteins attain their biological function at the time when they form the protein complexes, interact and in that way, trigger the cellular signaling procedure. Thereby, the protein complexes are crucial in regulating the cellular proliferation and survival in normal as well as abnormal cells. Exemplars of the protein complexes are those including the same protein coupling up in order to form homodimers and various other proteins coupling to form heterodimers. Being capable of profiling and detecting aberrant and normal protein complexes like the heterodimers and homodimers is considered important for envisaging the patient prognosis and resort to the therapy. The subjected copyright claims the ways of detecting and profiling the protein complexes are very broad and include all kinds of protein complexes, embracing heterodimers and homodimers, identified with th ... Source: www.articleset.com --- 1 day ago
The fight between proprietary software and free software is no new. The topic is always red hot for debates and has always invited fury from the open source or free users.The Patents are copyrights and date back to 200 years. The ideology backing the concept was to save the new ideas invented by one. Read more ... Source: david.sickmiller.com --- 13 hours ago
I don't have much to say about this myself, but this patent article linked from reddit.com makes my head spin.� I found this sentence especially striking:All these and many more fascinating questions will provide ample billable hours for patent attorneys even as inventors look on with utter horror and disbelief at the crucial importance the legal system is placing on distinctions that are technologically meaningless to the innovations sought to be patented. ... Source: blog.workhound.co.uk --- 22 hours ago
Having authored some patent applications in the US around business processes for internet commerce, I was always a little bothered by the practice. A quite good patent law blog has a solid write-up on how the US Patent and Trademark Office is looking at the appropriate scope for providing Patents in the area of business [...] ... Source: financeinformant.com --- 16 hours ago
An anonymous reader writes “The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software Patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc. In a series of cases including In re Nuijten, In re Comiskey and In re [...] ... Find more results for Patents on RSSMicro.com |
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After a nearly three-year legal battle, Qualcomm and Nokia on Wednesday reached a 15-year deal regarding Qualcomm Patents. Under the deal, Nokia has been granted a Qualcomm license that lets the handset maker include Qualcomm's patented technology in its mobile devices and infrastructure equipment. Nokia will make an undisclosed up-front payment and ongoing royalty payments to Qualcomm as part of the agreement. Nokia has also agreed to acknowledge the Qualcomm owns Patents relating to WCMDA, GSM, and OFDMA. The deal officially concludes any litigation between the companies, including Nokia's complaint to the European Commission. "This agreement paves the way for enhanced opportunities between the companies in a number of areas," Paul E. Jacobs, chief executive of Qualcomm, said in a statement. "The positive financial impact of this agreement is within Nokia's original expectations and fully reflects our leading intellectual property and market positions," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia. The agreement comes a day after a German Federal Patent Court ruled that a Qualcomm GSM patent dispute against Nokia was invalid. Qualcomm first sued Nokia in November 2005 for infringing on 11 Qualcomm Patents and one patent owned by Qualcomm subsidiary SnapTrack. Qualcomm said Nokia was infringing on its Patents by making and selling products in the United States based on the GSM standard, and requested monetary damages and an injunctio ...