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Apple Patent rejected
December-28, 2012 by: John Aldrich
From: John Aldrich ------------------------------------------------------ Just read a note on the Washington Post website that the US Patent office has rejected a "key" patent (pinch to zoom) that was one of the patents at issue in the trial this past summer between Apple and Samsung... Apple patent rejected: The U.S. Patent and Trademark office said Wednesday that it has rejected the ?pinch-to-zoom? patent. The technology covered by that patent was one of those at issue in the summer trial between Apple and Samsung. Samsung was ordered to pay Apple more than $1 billion in damages for violating that patent and five others. The Washington Post reported that Apple is expected to ask the office to reconsider that decision.
Joe Wilcox declares independence from Apple
July-17, 2012 by: James Nylen
From: James Nylen ------------------------------------------------------ http://betanews.com/2012/07/04/i-declare-independence-from-apple/ Joe Wilcox of BetaNews is moving away from Apple (to Google), at least partly due to their patent-related bullying behavior. Is that a good/meaningful choice? Is there any end in sight to the BS patent-wrangling that companies use to try to cripple their competitors?
Marconi was hacked in 1903 ;P
December-29, 2011 by: Chad Smith
From: Chad Smith ------------------------------------------------------ The first hack - offensive, abusive language, complaining about patents and freedom, particularly about how the hacker could do it better and cheaper - and how "the man" is messing with his wireless.... 100+ years, and the tradition still going strong. *- Chad W. Smith* *"I like a man who's middle name is W."* President George W. Bush - February 10, 2003 bit.ly/gwb-dubya On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Rod-Lists wrote: > "In June 1903, Gugliemo Marconi and his partner Ambrose Flemming were > about to give the first demonstration of long-range wireless communication > at the Royal Institution in London, which, Marconi said, could be sent in > complete confidentiality with no fear of the messages being hijacked. > Suddenly, the silence was broken by a huge mysterious wireless pulse strong > enough to take over the carbon-arc projector and make it sputter messages > in Morse Code. First, it repeated the word 'Rats' over and over again > (abusive at that time). Then it tapped out, 'There was a young fellow of > Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily.' Further rude epithets > followed. It was Nevil Maskelyne, a stage musician and inventor who was > annoyed because Marconi's patents prevented him from using wireless. It was > the first hacking, to demonstrate an insecure system." > > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html >
Marconi was hacked in 1903 ;P
December-29, 2011 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ "In June 1903, Gugliemo Marconi and his partner Ambrose Flemming were about to give the first demonstration of long-range wireless communication at the Royal Institution in London, which, Marconi said, could be sent in complete confidentiality with no fear of the messages being hijacked. Suddenly, the silence was broken by a huge mysterious wireless pulse strong enough to take over the carbon-arc projector and make it sputter messages in Morse Code. First, it repeated the word 'Rats' over and over again (abusive at that time). Then it tapped out, 'There was a young fellow of Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily.' Further rude epithets followed. It was Nevil Maskelyne, a stage musician and inventor who was annoyed because Marconi's patents prevented him from using wireless. It was the first hacking, to demonstrate an insecure system." http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html
Software Patents and the Debate
September-01, 2011 by: William Wade
From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ So there is a minor Presidential primary debate coming up. I don't really care about any of the people, but I was thinking that as YouTube is allowing for questions, we might try to get a good software patent question into the mix. Try to push that issue to the front and something (I believe) important to the OSS community. Anyway I made up a question (can anyone come up with a better wording?) so go vote on it or another one regarding patents (which of now there are not any...) http://www.youtube.com/foxnews -> Vote Search for patent. And let us know if you have a better text, and I'll go vote for it!
[Patents] How to force patent invalidation?
August-04, 2011 by: William Wade
From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ So there has been a lot of news regarding software patents and even Google is getting into the mix in a more public manner. What I am wondering if there is a way to go out there and find bad patents and force the patent office to invalidate them. The idea would be kind of a reverse patent troll. In our spare time find invalid patents and the necessary proof to prove that they are such and submit it to the office. If the patent office handles them anything like patent applications it should be quite easy ;-) Plus if enough patents were being invalidated perhaps it would become less lucrative for trolls. Anyone know how one would go about this? It is likely way to hard for someone like me, but it would be great if we could setup a community site that was dedicated to deleting bad software patents.
OT: This American Life broadcast on patents
July-26, 2011 by: Cameron Kilgore
From: Cameron Kilgore ------------------------------------------------------ Thought this might be interesting for those bent out of shape as a means to avoid a patent on keeping the perfect human form. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack --Cameron
OT: What
July-18, 2011 by: Cameron Kilgore
From: Cameron Kilgore ------------------------------------------------------ Apple hits HTC hard with a win over two patents, which could stop imports of HTC handsets. One of these patents covers the very simple practice of searching a data set for preformatted data such as a phone number, and adding interaction to it. Which is an interface patent. Talk amongst yourselves. --Cameron
RIAA presents at Chat. Tech Council
April-05, 2011 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ I'll leave my personal comments out.. but I won't be going to help keep me from being arrested. -------------------------------------------------------- Please join us for our April 14th lunch meeting. FREE to CTC members; $20 non-CTC members. RSVP deadline is Monday, April 11th. To register, http://chatc.org/events/2011/4/14/chattanooga-technology-council-april-lunch-meeting/ Mitch Glazier is Executive Vice President, Government and Industry Relations for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Washington D.C.-based trade association that represents hundreds of member record companies responsible for creating, manufacturing and distributing more than 90 percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. Glazier serves as the chief advocate for the recorded music industry before policymakers and government officials and is responsible for industry relations, including the Gold and Platinum Sales Award Program. Glazier, because of his role in policy debates over new media, was named as one of the nation’s “50 most influential men under 37,” by “Details” magazine. He has been at the forefront of many of the nation’s cutting-edge policy issues, such as copyright law in the digital age, First Amendment-related challenges, royalty streams for record companies and artists, and international copyright agreements. Before his tenure with RIAA, Glazier served as Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over all intellectual property law, including patents, copyrights and trademarks. In his capacity as Chief Counsel, Glazier served as the chief advisor to the Subcommittee and was responsible for working with Members of Congress to craft legislation and amendments, organize legislative and oversight hearings and markups, and analyze and evaluate legislation referred to the subcommittee. Glazier also served as law clerk to Judge Wayne R. Andersen, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and practiced law at the Chicago law firm Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg as an associate in commercial litigation. Glazier holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Policy, cum laude, from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Bars of the State of Illinois and the District of Columbia.
patent assignment
February-11, 2011 by: Ed King
From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ brain pickin' time again when I pull up Microsoft patents on uspto.gov I usually see a list of names of the inventors, which have assigned this patent idea over to Microsoft, eg: Patent D632,380 Inventors: Kim; Young Soo (Bellevue, WA), Groene; Ralf (Kirkland, WA), Reed; Anthony (Seattle, WA) Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) I assume that the inventors names are Microsoft employees My boss wants to know what compensation/incentive, if any, was given to these inventors in order to make them want to hand over their invention to Microsoft. My guess was stock options or maybe they are just paid well.