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Not Just A Big Business Problem: Patent Trolls Harm Startups, Small Businesses
As Patent Progress reported in this post, Friday afternoon President Obama came out strong against patent trolls, saying,
They’re just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else’s id...
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Obama Acknowledges Patent Troll Problem [w/ Transcript]
[Cross-posted on DisCo]
It's not often that the President or an Administration talks explicitly about detailed aspects of technology and intellectual property policy. For President Obama, it has ca...
Google Retaliates Against BT Patent Suits in US, UK
In a fresh salvo in the ongoing patent wars, Google launched infringement actions against British Telecom (BT) in California and the United Kingdom (UK) on Wednesday. The suits appear to be in retal...
Patents in the News
Facebook sued over 'like' button (BBC News)
Facebook is facing legal action over its use of the "like" button and other features of the social network... It is being sued by a patent-holding company ...
Patent Expiration Doesn’t Prevent Green Mountain Coffee From Maintaining Its Buzz
(Cross posted on Project DisCo)
Keurig single-cup brewing systems, conspicuous contraptions found in offices and homes across America, are a convenient product for anyone who wants to make coffee a ...
Recipient of the First Software Patent Comes Out Criticizing the Current System
In an interesting historical tidbit, last week the Guardian in the United Kingdom published an interview of Martin Goetz. Goetz is the person awarded the first software patent back in 1968. In a p...
Patent Bully: Steve Jobs’ Unethical Use of Patents
(Cross posted on Project DisCo)
Yesterday, a sworn statement by former Palm CEO Edward Colligan became part of the public record in a civil antitrust lawsuit brought by 5 employees at major Silicon V...
Patent Flood Continues
The patent arms race continues to expand. In 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) saw a record 253,155 new patents issued. Not only that, it also just set a record on January 8, 2013...