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recent bookmarks from jmPatent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public2024-10-03T15:42:32+00:00
https://blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-sable-pays-up/
jm
Sable initially asserted around 100 claims from four different patents against Cloudflare, accusing multiple Cloudflare products and features of infringement. Sable’s patents — the old Caspian Networks patents — related to hardware-based router technologies common over 20 years ago. Sable’s infringement arguments stretched these patent claims to their limits (and beyond) as Sable tried to apply Caspian’s hardware-based technologies to Cloudflare’s modern software-defined services delivered on the cloud. [...]
Cloudflare fought back against Sable by launching a new round of Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art contest, seeking prior art to invalidate all of Sable’s patents.
In the end, Sable agreed to pay Cloudflare $225,000, grant Cloudflare a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio, and to dedicate its patents to the public, ensuring that Sable can never again assert them against another company.
(via AJ Stuyvenberg)]]>sable cloudflare patent-trolls patents uspto trolls routinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10f32e7b82f3/AWS told to pay $525M in cloud storage patent suit - The Register2024-04-11T17:09:00+00:00
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/11/aws_lawsuit_kove_io/
jmswpats software patents patent-trolls kove aws s3 algorithms distributed-hash-tables consistent-hashing iphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d2dede16285a/CORBEVAX - The World's COVID-19 Vaccine2022-01-02T15:09:13+00:00
https://www.texaschildrens.org/texas-children%E2%80%99s-hospital-and-baylor-college-medicine-covid-19-vaccine-technology-secures-emergency
jmCORBEVAX™, a protein sub-unit COVID-19 Vaccine, whose technology was created and engineered at its Center for Vaccine Development (CVD), has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to launch in India with other underserved countries to follow.
Dubbed “The World’s COVID-19 Vaccine”, it uses a traditional recombinant protein-based technology that will enable its production at large scales making it widely accessible to inoculate the global population. The initial construct and production process of the vaccine antigen was developed at Texas Children’s Hospital CVD, led by co-directors Drs. Maria Elena Bottazzi and Peter Hotez and in-licensed from BCM Ventures, Baylor College of Medicine’s integrated commercialization team, to Hyderabad-based vaccine and pharmaceutical company Biological E. Limited (BE).
CORBEVAX™ after completing two Phase III clinical trials involving more than 3000 subjects was found to be safe, well tolerated and immunogenic.
Well-established method of making the stuff, good results, and best of all, the team have chosen not to patent it, Salk-style. Fantastic stuff.
]]>corbevax vaccines covid-19 sars-cov-2 patents india medicinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:781584942d95/a 20-year patent blocked gallium doping for solar panels2021-07-25T21:02:59+00:00
https://theconversation.com/the-sunlight-that-powers-solar-panels-also-damages-them-gallium-doping-is-providing-a-solution-164935
jmip climate-change solar-panels energy gallium patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1b08c0967707/Patent case against GNOME resolved2020-05-21T10:33:48+00:00
https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/05/patent-case-against-gnome-resolved/
jmToday, on the 20th of May 2020, the GNOME Foundation, Rothschild Patent Imaging, and Leigh M. Rothschild are pleased to announce that the patent dispute between Rothschild Patent Imaging and GNOME has been settled.
In this walk-away settlement, GNOME receives a release and covenant not to be sued for any patent held by Rothschild Patent Imaging. Further, both Rothschild Patent Imaging and Leigh Rothschild are granting a release and covenant to any software that is released under an existing Open Source Initiative approved license (and subsequent versions thereof), including for the entire Rothschild portfolio of patents, to the extent such software forms a material part of the infringement allegation.
]]>patents software swpats gnome open-source via:mjghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c7cb403543ab/WHO endorses voluntary patent pool to develop Covid-19 products2020-04-07T11:19:58+00:00
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2020/04/06/covid19-coronavirus-patents-voluntary-pool-world-health/
jmThe World Health Organization director-general has endorsed the idea of creating a voluntary pool to collect patent rights, regulatory test data, and other information that could be shared for developing drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics.
The concept was proposed two weeks ago by Costa Rican government officials amid mounting concerns that some Covid-19 medical products may not be accessible for poorer populations. By establishing a voluntary mechanism under the auspices of the WHO, the goal is to establish a pathway that will attract numerous governments, as well as industry, universities and nonprofit organizations.
“I support this proposal, and we are working with Costa Rica to finalize the details,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement on Monday. "Poorer countries and fragile economies stand to face the biggest shock from this pandemic, and leaving anyone unprotected will only prolong the health crisis and harm economies more. I call on all countries, companies and research institutions to support open data, open science, and open collaboration so that all people can enjoy the benefits of science and research.”
]]>patents covid-19 who ip medicine pharma science research open-data open-science collaborationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3e77ddc48d4e/Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments - The Verge2020-03-18T09:39:37+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-italy-medical-company-threatens-sue-3d-print-valves-treatments
jmA medical device manufacturer has threatened to sue a group of volunteers in Italy that 3D printed a valve used for life-saving coronavirus treatments. The valve typically costs about $11,000 from the medical device manufacturer, but the volunteers were able to print replicas for about $1 (via Techdirt).
A hospital in Italy was in need of the valves after running out while treating patients for COVID-19. The hospital’s usual supplier said they could not make the valves in time to treat the patients, according to Metro. That launched a search for a way to 3D print a replica part, and Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Ramaioli, who work at Italian startup Isinnova, offered their company’s printer for the job, reports Business Insider.
However, when the pair asked the manufacturer of the valves for blueprints they could use to print replicas, the company declined and threatened to sue for patent infringement, according to Business Insider Italia. Fracassi and Ramaioli moved ahead anyway by measuring the valves and 3D printing three different versions of them.
]]>covid-19 ip patents italy 3d-printing hardware ip-rights lawhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d553aa7fbb62/Wikipedia turned to WebAssembly to provide patent-free video2020-02-11T11:10:14+00:00
https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1227038117682532352
jm polyfill because video codec patents are a pain for folks committed to fully open source stacks. ogv.js implements Ogg Vorbis/Opus/Theora audio & WebM VP8/VP9/AV1 video. https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/']]>ogv.js ogv webassembly wasm wikipedia polyfills standards video patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f391dbbdacb3/GNOME Foundation facing lawsuit from Rothschild Patent Imaging2019-09-26T10:42:50+00:00
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-foundation-facing-lawsuit-from-rothschild-patent-imaging/
jmsoftware-patents swpats shotwell gnome linux open-source patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d58268eb8178/How Theranos used the USPTO to defraud investors and patients2019-03-07T14:53:55+00:00
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/04/weaponized-design-fiction.html
jmWhen legendary grifter Elizabeth Holmes was 19 years old, she conceived of a medical device that could perform extensive diagnostics in an eyeblink from only a single drop of blood; she had no idea how such a device would work or whether it was even possible, but that didn't stop her from drawing up a patent application for her "invention" and repeatedly submitting to the patent office until, eventually, she was awarded a patent for what amounted to a piece of uninspiring design fiction.
For Holmes, the patent was key to convincing investors, partners, and patients that her massive, years-long fraud (a company called "Theranos" bilked investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars) was legit; the USPTO helped her out by trumpeting the importance of patents to "inventors" like Holmes, comparing her to Benjamin Franklin in their public communications.
Patents are only supposed to be issued for devices with "utility" -- that is, they have to actually work before you can get a patent for them. But it's been decades since the USPTO has paid meaningful attention to this criterion when evaluating applications, handing out patents for imaginary "inventions" to con artists, delusional hucksters, and other "inventors" who are willing to pay the filing fees that keep the lights on at the Patent Office. And since most people only have a vague idea of the rigor used in patent examination, these patents for design fiction can be used as impressive "proof" when crooks set out to deceive their marks.
[....] 'More than a decade after Holmes’ first patent application, Theranos had still not managed to build a reliable blood-testing device. By then the USPTO had granted it hundreds of patents. Holmes had been constructing a fantasy world from the minute she started writing her first application, and the agency was perfectly happy to play along.'
]]>fraud patents uspto theranos inventions boing-boinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:66fe64ebeaf9/Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project2018-11-30T12:09:02+00:00
https://patentpandas.org/stories/crowdfunding-backer-patented-my-project
jmI had thought thought all along that if we published everything openly, it wouldn’t be possible for someone else to patent stuff that’s already all over the web. But I was wrong. Despite tons of prior art out on the web, in academic research papers and even for sale that are LED stickers, the patent examiner missed it and deemed the LED sticker patent “new” and “non-obvious.”
How could that happen? The sad truth is that patents are approved all that time that probably shouldn’t be.
[...]
Can’t you invalidate the patent? Unfortunately, once a patent gets issued things get much more complicated and expensive. The cheapest option would be for us to go to the USPTO with our prior art list and invalidate the patent though a process called an inter partes review (IPR). But such a process typically costs between $300,000 and $600,000 to file due to legal fees. In fact, it’s much more than the cost of getting the patent in the first place! So for now, we’ve decided not to go down this route.
The US patent system is broken. This is appalling]]>patents led-stickers uspto prior-art invention crowdfundinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1a0917d3a1cc/Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview2018-11-30T11:05:30+00:00
https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea
jmI looked up the patent application and luckily, this time the patent application was still being reviewed by the patent examiner. It had not issued! The provisional was filed August 29, 2014, months after my first interview and visit back in March 2014. Two of the inventors listed were the same people who had interviewed me.
This is frankly appalling behaviour from Google -- total abuse of the patent system. If Joi Ito hadn't been around to mediate this patent probably would have issued and this researcher's life's work stolen from her through IP dirty tricks.
(Also, patents need to die)]]>patents software-patents google dirty-tricks interviewing ip mit medialab paper jie-qihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dd9fd9a32567/These experts figured out why so many bogus patents get approved | Ars Technica2018-01-03T13:58:15+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/these-experts-figured-out-why-so-many-bogus-patents-get-approved/
jmA recent paper published by the Brookings Institution offers fascinating insights into this question. Written by legal scholars Michael Frakes and Melissa Wasserman, the paper identifies three ways the patent process encourages approval of low-quality patents:
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is funded by fees—and the agency gets more fees if it approves an application.
Unlimited opportunities to refile rejected applications means sometimes granting a patent is the only way to get rid of a persistent applicant.
Patent examiners are given less time to review patent applications as they gain seniority, leading to less thorough reviews.
None of these observations is entirely new. For example, we have covered the problems created by unlimited re-applications in the past. But what sets Frakes and Wasserman's work apart is that they have convincing empirical evidence for all three theories.
]]>patents uspto swpats brookings-institution patenting lawhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3a369bf6223b/Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code2017-09-25T09:33:52+00:00
https://code.facebook.com/posts/300798627056246/relicensing-react-jest-flow-and-immutable-js/
jmThis decision comes after several weeks of disappointment and uncertainty for our community. Although we still believe our BSD + Patents license provides some benefits to users of our projects, we acknowledge that we failed to decisively convince this community.
]]>facebook opensource react patents swpats bsd licensinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:31a3abe8c535/The React license for founders and CTOs – James Ide – Medium2017-09-11T10:23:09+00:00
https://medium.com/@ji/the-react-license-for-founders-and-ctos-b38d2538f3e5
jmThe difficulty of open sourcing code at Facebook, including React in 2013, was one of the reasons the company’s open-source contributions used to be a fraction of what they are today. It didn’t use to have a strong reputation as an open-source contributor to front-end technologies. Facebook wanted to open source code, though; when it grew communities for projects like React, core contributors emerged to help out and interview candidates often cited React and other Facebook open source as one of the reasons they were interested in applying. People at Facebook wanted to make it easier to open source code and not worry as much about patents. Facebook’s solution was the Facebook BSD+Patents license.
]]>facebook bsd licenses licensing asf patents swpats react license software-patents open-source rocksdbhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49a759b197d4/[LEGAL-303] ASF, RocksDB, and Facebook's BSD+patent grant licensing2017-07-17T10:29:51+00:00
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303
jmreact rocksdb licensing asl2 apache asf facebook open-source patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a8d0f17f02f0/U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to 'patent trolls'2017-05-23T11:24:19+00:00
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kraft-heinz-idUSKBN18I1SZ
jmThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder for so-called patent "trolls" to launch sometimes dodgy patent cases in friendly courts, a major irritant for high-tech giants like Apple and Alphabet Inc's Google.
In a decision that upends 27 years of law governing patent infringement cases, the justices sided with beverage flavoring company TC Heartland LLC in its legal battle with food and beverage company Kraft Heinz Co (KHC.O). The justices ruled 8-0 that patent suits can be filed only in courts located in the jurisdiction where the targeted company is incorporated.
via Brad Fitzgerald]]>via:bradfitz patents swpats east-texas law trolls supreme-court infringementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4e7746c5736a/Moom removed from sale due to patent violation claim | Hacker News2017-05-15T10:28:43+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333957
jmmoom patents bullshit swpat software window-management osxhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8bfaea275fab/React’s license: necessary and open?2016-11-01T12:00:18+00:00
http://lu.is/blog/2016/10/31/reacts-license-necessary-and-open/
jmluis-villa open-source react facebook patents swpats licensing licenses bsdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b01d399aa647/Ludicrous Patent of the Week: Rectangles on a computer screen2016-10-11T09:06:18+00:00
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/30/us_grants_patent_for_shapes_on_a_screen/
jmboxes screen tencent patents uspto funny absurd swpats via:markdennehyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:04ea707987f3/Just As We Warned: A Chinese Tech Giant Goes On The Patent Attack -- In East Texas | Techdirt2016-07-21T20:30:12+00:00
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160718/06573135006/just-as-we-warned-chinese-tech-giant-goes-patent-attack-east-texas.shtml
jmTechdirt has been warning for years that the West's repeated demands for China to "respect" patents could backfire badly. [...] And guess what? That is exactly what has just happened, as The Wall Street Journal reports:
'Huawei Technologies Co. said it has filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile US Inc., alleging the U.S. telecommunications carrier violated the Chinese company’s patents related to wireless networks. In its complaint filed this week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Huawei said T-Mobile is using its patented technology without signing a licensing agreement.'
At least this is the most likely scenario to result in patent reform, finally.]]>patents east-texas huawei t-mobile telecoms lawhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:91fcd568f0c3/Ireland will need referendum to create EU court for patents2016-05-12T10:33:32+00:00
http://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-referendum-patent-court-771051-Jan2013/
jmpatents eu sean-sherlock absurd referenda ireland iphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a37797a08d71/IBM goes full patent troll2016-03-04T10:52:29+00:00
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3040496/tech-events-dupe/ibm-sues-groupon-for-infringing-its-patents-including-from-prodigy-online-service.html
jmibm patents swpats paul-graham patent-trolls prodigy grouponhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b04c6a80df00/CRISPR Patents Spark Fight to Control Genome Editing | MIT Technology Review2016-01-12T09:55:38+00:00
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/532796/who-owns-the-biggest-biotech-discovery-of-the-century/
jmcrispr algorithms gene-editing genetics genomics genes patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fd50896c8bd9/Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision2015-10-09T12:39:09+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/gene-patents-probably-dead-worldwide-following-australian-court-decision/
jmThe court based its reasoning on the fact that, although an isolated gene such as BRCA1 was "a product of human action, it was the existence of the information stored in the relevant sequences that was an essential element of the invention as claimed." Since the information stored in the DNA as a sequence of nucleotides was a product of nature, it did not require human action to bring it into existence, and therefore could not be patented.
Via Tony Finch.]]>via:fanf australia genetics law ipr medicine ip patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:46c25adbed67/Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win2015-07-29T16:32:57+00:00
http://blog.newegg.com/newegg-vs-patent-trolls-when-we-win-you-win/
jmvia:nelson ip law patent-trolls patents newegg cryptohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:918461047bb6/Amazon's Drone Delivery Patent Just Feels Like Trolling At This Point2015-05-10T19:41:15+00:00
http://gizmodo.com/amazons-drone-delivery-patent-just-feels-like-trolling-1703089005
jmThese aren’t actual technologies yet. [...] All of which underscores that Amazon might never ever ever ever actually implement delivery drones. The patent paperwork was filed nearly a year after Amazon’s splashy drone program reveal on 60 Minutes. At the time we called it revolutionary marketing because, you know, delivery drones are technical and logistical madness, not to mention that commercial drone use is illegal right now. Although, in fairness the FAA did just relax some rules so that Amazon could test drones.
At this point it feels like Amazon is just trolling. It’s trolling us with public relations BS about its future drones, and it’s trolling future competitors -- Google is also apparently working on this -- so that if somebody ever somehow does anything relating to drone delivery, Amazon can sue them. If I’m wrong, I’ll deliver my apology via Airmail.
]]>amazon trolling patents uspto delivery drones uavs competition faahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:93935c65ad76/HP is trying to patent Continuous Delivery2015-03-07T21:21:38+00:00
http://blog.matthewskelton.net/2015/03/06/hp-is-trying-to-patent-continuous-delivery-here-is-how-you-can-help-block-this-madness/
jmOn 1st March 2015 I discovered that in 2012 HP had filed a patent (WO2014027990) with the USPO for ‘Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline‘ (the patent was granted in 2014). [....] HP has filed several patents covering standard Continuous Delivery (CD) practices. You can help to have these patents revoked by providing ‘prior art’ examples on Stack Exchange.
In fairness, though, this kind of shit happens in most big tech companies. This is what happens when you have a broken software patenting system, with big rewards for companies who obtain shitty troll patents like these, and in turn have companies who reward the engineers who sell themselves out to write up concepts which they know have prior art. Software patents are broken by design!]]>cd devops hp continuous-deployment testing deployment performance patents swpats prior-arthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a16ec2c9f13d/The US complains that others steal its technology, but America was once a tech pirate itself2014-12-29T12:43:56+00:00
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-nations-are-stealing-us-technology-america-has-history
jmHamilton used patents to lure immigrants with skills and knowledge to move to the United States. George Parkinson, for example, was awarded a patent in 1791 for a textile spinning machine, which was really just a rip-off of a machine he had used in England. The United States also paid his family's expenses to emigrate and re-locate to the US. [...]
The Brits were not happy about the attempts to steal their intellectual property. Severe penalties were on the books for anyone trying to take machines or designs out of the country, or even to lure skilled workers. It was actually illegal for such skilled workers to leave the country.
]]>china gongkai patents ip copyright history us uk textiles spinninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:beffcb378e4d/From Gongkai to Open Source2014-12-29T12:35:28+00:00
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
jmopensource china gongkai tinkering reverse-engineering bunnie-huang open-source mediatek copyright facts fair-use shanzhai patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9c552f35dac4/Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono - Miguel de Icaza2014-11-12T17:14:09+00:00
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html
jmmono dot-net languages microsoft open-source mit-license swpats patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:efd4848a0ca1/Ebola: While Big Pharma Slept2014-10-04T14:08:23+00:00
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/09/14/ebola-while-big-pharma-slept/
jmWe’ve had almost 40 years to develop, test and stockpile an Ebola vaccine. That has not happened because big pharma has been entirely focused on shareholder value and profits over safety and survival from a deadly virus. For the better part of Ebola’s 38 years ‒ big pharma has been asleep. The question ahead is what virus or superbug will wake them up?
]]>pharma ebola ip patents health drugs africa researchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7989d14817de/Ebola vaccine delayed by IP spat2014-10-04T12:14:11+00:00
http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/09/ebola-vaccine-tests-needlessly-delayed-researchers-claim
jmGiven the urgency, it's inexplicable that one of the candidate vaccines, developed at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in Winnipeg, has yet to go in the first volunteer's arm, says virologist Heinz Feldmann, who helped develop the vaccine while at PHAC. "It’s a farce; these doses are lying around there while people are dying in Africa,” says Feldmann, who now works at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Hamilton, Montana.
At the center of the controversy is NewLink Genetics, a small company in Ames, Iowa, that bought a license to the vaccine's commercialization from the Canadian government in 2010, and is now suddenly caught up in what WHO calls "the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times.” Becker and others say the company has been dragging its feet the past 2 months because it is worried about losing control over the development of the vaccine.
]]>ip patents drugs ebola canada phac newlink-genetics health epidemics vaccineshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:47d84a878db1/Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court2014-09-15T15:48:41+00:00
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/12/6138483/software-patents-are-crumbling-thanks-to-the-supreme-court
jmNow a series of decisions from lower courts is starting to bring the ruling's practical consequences into focus. And the results have been ugly for fans of software patents. By my count there have been 11 court rulings on the patentability of software since the Supreme Court's decision — including six that were decided this month. Every single one of them has led to the patent being invalidated. This doesn't necessarily mean that all software patents are in danger — these are mostly patents that are particularly vulnerable to challenge under the new Alice precedent. But it does mean that the pendulum of patent law is now clearly swinging in an anti-patent direction. Every time a patent gets invalidated, it strengthens the bargaining position of every defendant facing a lawsuit from a patent troll.
]]>patents law alice swpats software supreme-court patent-trollshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a118b03c3e5e/Open Invention Network Symposium on Open Source Software and Patents in Context2014-09-11T12:18:14+00:00
https://www.eventsforce.net/enterpriseireland/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=359268&eventID=1253&eventID=1253
jmvia:gcarr ubuntu law legal open-source floss oss oin inventions patents swpat software ireland ei eventshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ba4a74cfe0d7/The Ramifications of Alice: A Conversation with Mark Lemley - IPWatchdog.com2014-09-05T08:41:07+00:00
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/09/04/the-ramifications-of-alice-a-conversation-with-mark-lemley/id=51023/
jmI think you need to review what is actually happening at the USPTO in terms of rejections and how the Federal Circuit is applying Alice to find software patent claims patent ineligible. We are not crying wolf. It is really, factually, truthfully happening.
On the face of it, this sounds like great news ;)]]>swpat patents alice uspto ip reform softwarehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:26c8302bdd3f/How the patent trolls won in Congress: Ars Technica2014-05-26T11:46:24+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/how-the-patent-trolls-won-in-congress/
jm"We felt really good the last couple of days," said the tech lobbyist. "It was a good deal—one we could live with. Then the trial lawyers and pharma went to Senator Reid late this morning and said that's it. Enough with the children playing in the playground—go kill it."
]]>ars-technica patents swpats patent-trolls pharma tech us-politics congress lawyershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5f12b1e7238b/'Monitoring and detecting causes of failures of network paths', US patent 8,661,295 (B1)2014-05-22T16:15:52+00:00
https://www.google.com/patents/US8661295
jmSystems and methods are provided for monitoring and detecting causes of failures of network paths. The system collects performance information from a plurality of nodes and links in a network, aggregates the collected performance information across paths in the network, processes the aggregated performance information for detecting failures on the paths, analyzes each of the detected failures to determine at least one root cause, and initiates a remedial workflow for the at least one root cause determined. In some aspects, processing the aggregated information may include performing a statistical regression analysis or otherwise solving a set of equations for the performance indications on each of a plurality of paths. In another aspect, the system may also include an interface which makes available for display one or more of the network topology, the collected and aggregated performance information, and indications of the detected failures in the topology.
The patent describes an early version of Pimms, the network failure detection and remediation system we built for Amazon.]]>amazon pimms swpats patents networking ospf autoremediation outage-detectionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3ab424128507/Transform any text into a patent application2014-05-12T13:04:40+00:00
http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-application/
jmpython patents text language generatorhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:09d23ea9c4f5/Actually, Mr. Waxman, Consumers Are Sued For Patent Infringement All the Time | Electronic Frontier Foundation2014-05-01T09:52:44+00:00
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/actually-mr-waxman-consumers-are-sued-patent-infringement-all-time
jmPatent trolls have sued or threatened to sue tens of thousands of end-users. For example, Innovatio attacked cafes, bakeries, and even a funeral parlor for using off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers. And the notorious scanner troll, MPHJ, targeted small businesses and nonprofits around the country for using ordinary office equipment. As a recent paper explained: “Mass suits against technology customers have become too common, involving building block technologies like wi-fi, scanning, email and website technologies.”
The growth in patent suits against customers reveals the importance of the Limelight case. A ruling that made it even easier to sue customers (by allowing suits against someone who performs just some steps of a patent) would encourage patent trolls to launch more abusive litigation campaigns. We hope the Supreme Court will restore the sensible rule that only a single entity (or its agents) can infringe a patent.
]]>patents uspto swpats eff consumer law legal patent-infringement scanners wifi printershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5454b42f0b1c/For world’s biggest troll, first patent case ends up in tatters2014-04-22T15:37:13+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/for-worlds-biggest-troll-first-patent-case-ends-up-in-tatters/
jmtrolls patent-trolls patents swpats capital-one intellectual-ventureshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cc749e34ecf9/Disgraced Scientist Granted U.S. Patent for Work Found to be Fraudulent - NYTimes.com2014-02-18T23:03:22+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/science/disgraced-scientist-granted-us-patent-for-work-found-to-be-fraudulent.html?_r=1
jmKorean researcher Hwang Woo-suk electrified the science world 10 years ago with his claim that he had created the world’s first cloned human embryos and had extracted stem cells from them. But the work was later found to be fraudulent, and Dr. Hwang was fired from his university and convicted of crimes.
Despite all that, Dr. Hwang has just been awarded an American patent covering the disputed work, leaving some scientists dumbfounded and providing fodder to critics who say the Patent Office is too lax.
“Shocked, that’s all I can say,” said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a professor at Oregon Health and Science University who appears to have actually accomplished what Dr. Hwang claims to have done. “I thought somebody was kidding, but I guess they were not.”
Jeanne F. Loring, a stem cell scientist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, said her first reaction was “You can’t patent something that doesn’t exist.” But, she said, she later realized that “you can.”
]]>patents absurd hwang-woo-suk cloning stem-cells science biology usptohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f0e6b1ceeaad/A patent on 'Birth of a Child By Centrifugal Force'2014-02-09T23:00:31+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jul/25/research.highereducation1
jmOn November 9 1965, the Blonskys were granted US Patent 3,216,423, for an Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force. The drawings, as well as the text, are a revelation. The Patent Office has them online at http://tinyurl.com/jd4ra and I urge you - if you have any shred of curiosity in your body - to look them up.
For conceiving what appears to be the greatest labour-saving device ever invented, George and Charlotte Blonsky won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in the field of Managed Health Care.
This is utterly bananas. (via christ)]]>via:christ crazy patents 1960s centrifuge birth medicine ignobelshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b822498cf07d/Difference Engine: Obituary for software patents2013-12-16T22:02:35+00:00
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/12/difference-engine-0?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/obituary_for_software_patents
jmIf the use of state consumer-protection laws to ward off frivolous patent suits were to catch on, it could give the trolls serious pause for thought—especially if their mass mailings of threatening letters to businesses were met by dozens of law suits from attorneys general demanding their presence in state courts across the land. One way or another, things are beginning to look ominous for those who would exploit the inadequacies of America’s patent system.
]]>the-economist patents swpats trolls us east-texas lawhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:59e33f95130e/Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million | Ars Technica2013-11-26T09:44:24+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/jury-newegg-infringes-spangenberg-patent-must-pay-2-3-million/
jmNewegg, an online retailer that has made a name for itself fighting the non-practicing patent holders sometimes called "patent trolls," sits on the losing end of a lawsuit tonight. An eight-person jury came back shortly after 7:00pm and found that the company infringed all four asserted claims of a patent owned by TQP Development, a company owned by patent enforcement expert Erich Spangenberg.
"patent enforcement expert". That's one way to put it. This is insanity.]]>tech swpats patents newegg tqp crypto whitfield-diffiehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6474808f77b8/Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch | Ars Technica2013-11-25T11:03:29+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-crypto-legend-diffie-takes-the-stand-to-knock-out-patent/
jm
"We've heard a good bit in this courtroom about public key encryption," said Albright. "Are you familiar with that?
"Yes, I am," said Diffie, in what surely qualified as the biggest understatement of the trial.
"And how is it that you're familiar with public key encryption?"
"I invented it."
(via burritojustice)]]>crypto tech security patents swpats pki whitfield-diffie history east-texas newegg patent-trollshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9e9ce822538b/Intellectual Ventures' Evil Knows No Bounds: Buys Patent AmEx Donated For Public Good... And Starts Suing2013-10-08T20:45:11+00:00
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131007/02403824776/intellectual-ventures-evil-knows-no-bounds-buys-patent-amex-donated-public-good-starts-suing.shtml
jmSo you have a situation where even when the original patent holder donated the patent for "the public good," sooner or later, an obnoxious patent troll like IV comes along and turns it into a weapon.
Again: AmEx patented those little numbers on your credit card, and then for the good of the industry and consumer protection donated the patent to a non-profit, who promised not to enforce the patent against banks... and then proceeded to sell the patent to Intellectual Ventures who is now suing banks over it.
]]>intellectual-ventures scams patents swpats shakedown banking cvv american-express banks amex cmafhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:248742715d22/Patent troll Lodsys chickens out, folds case rather than face Eugene Kaspersky2013-10-03T11:20:22+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-troll-lodsys-chickens-out-folds-case-rather-than-face-kaspersky-lab/
jmIn Kaspersky's view, patent trolls are no better than the extortionists who cropped up in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, when crime ran rampant. Kaspersky saw more and more people becoming victims of various extortion schemes. US patent trolls seemed very similar. "Kaspersky's view was that paying patent trolls was like paying a protection racket," said Kniser. He wasn't going to do it.
yay! pity it didn't manage to establish precedent, though. But go Kaspersky!]]>eugene-kaspersky shakedowns law east-texas swpats patents patent-trollshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8295f054679d/In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents | Ars Technica2013-08-28T22:25:33+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/
jmA major new patent bill, passed in a 117-4 vote by New Zealand's Parliament after five years of debate, has banned software patents. The relevant clause of the patent bill actually states that a computer program is "not an invention." Some have suggested that was a way to get around the wording of the TRIPS intellectual property treaty, which requires patents to be "available for any inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology." [...]
One Member of Parliament who was deeply involved in the debate, Clare Curran, quoted several heads of software firms complaining about how the patenting process allowed "obvious things" to get patented and that "in general software patents are counter-productive." Curran quoted one developer as saying, "It's near impossible for software to be developed without breaching some of the hundreds of thousands of patents granted around the world for obvious work."
"These are the heavyweights of the new economy in software development," said Curran. "These are the people that needed to be listened to, and thankfully, they were."
]]>new-zealand nz patents swpats law trips ip software-patents yayhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ea0e207631b3/Branded to death | Features | Times Higher Education2013-07-26T13:32:06+00:00
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/branded-to-death/2005732.fullarticle
jmThe most abominable monster now threatening the intellectual health and the integrity of pure enquiry as well as conscientious teaching is the language of advertising, or better, the machinery of propaganda. Any number of critics from within university walls have warned the people at large and academics in particular of the way the helots of advertising and the state police of propaganda bloat and distort the language of thoughtful description, peddle with a confident air generalisations without substance, and serenely circulate orotund lies while ignoring their juniors’ rebuttals and abuse.
Relevant to this argument -- http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/the-webs-longest-nightmare-ends-eolas-patents-are-dead-on-appeal/ notes that 'the role of the University of California [was] one of the most perplexing twists in the Eolas saga. The university kept a low profile during the lead-up to trial; but once in Texas, Eolas' lawyers constantly reminded the jury they were asserting "these University of California patents." A lawyer from UC's patent-licensing division described support for Eolas at trial by simply saying that the university "stands by its licensees."'
]]>branding advertising newspeak universities third-level eolas higher-education education research university-of-california ucb patents ip swpatshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:43f4aad4627a/The Web’s longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal | Ars Technica2013-07-24T09:30:02+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/the-webs-longest-nightmare-ends-eolas-patents-are-dead-on-appeal/
jmUnder Doyle's conception of his own invention, practically any modern website owed him royalties. Playing a video online or rotating an image on a shopping website were "interactive" features that infringed his patents. And unlike many "patent trolls" who simply settle for settlements just under the cost of litigation, Doyle's company had the chops, the lawyers, and the early filing date needed to extract tens of millions of dollars from the accused companies. [...]
The role of the University of California is one of the most perplexing twists in the Eolas saga. The university kept a low profile during the lead-up to trial; but once in Texas, Eolas lawyers constantly reminded the jury they were asserting "these University of California patents." A lawyer from UC's patent-licensing division described support for Eolas at trial by simply saying that the university "stands by its licensees." (Eolas was technically an exclusive licensee of the UC-owned patent, which also gives it the right to sue.)
At the same time, the University of California, and the Berkeley campus in particular, was a key institution in creating early web technology. While UC lawyers cooperated with the plaintiffs, two UC Berkeley-trained computer scientists were key witnesses in the effort to demolish the Eolas patents.
Pei-Yuan Wei created the pioneering Viola browser, a key piece of prior art, while he was a student at UC-Berkeley in the early 1990s. Scott Silvey, another UC-Berkeley student at that time, testified about a program he made called VPlot, which allowed users to rotate an image of an airplane using Wei's browser. VPlot and Viola were demonstrated to Sun Microsystems in May 1993, months before Doyle claimed to have conceived of his invention.
]]>patents swpats eolas web patent-trolls ucb universities research viola plugins berkeleyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:139baa265fd4/Newegg nukes “corporate troll” Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year2013-05-20T11:26:35+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corporate-troll-alcatel-in-third-patent-appeal-win-this-year/
jm
At trial in East Texas Cheng took the stand to tell Newegg's story. Alcatel-Lucent's corporate representative, at the heart of its massive licensing campaign, couldn't even name the technology or the patents it was suing Newegg over.
"Successful defendants have their litigation managed by people who care," said Cheng. "For me, it's easy. I believe in Newegg, I care about Newegg. Alcatel Lucent, meanwhile, they drag out some random VP—who happens to be a decorated Navy veteran, who happens to be handsome and has a beautiful wife and kids—but the guy didn't know what patents were being asserted. What a joke."
"Shareholders of public companies that engage in patent trolling should ask themselves if they're really well-served by their management teams," Cheng added. "Are they properly monetizing their R&D? Surely there are better ways to make money than to just rely on litigating patents. If I was a shareholder, I would take a hard look as to whether their management was competent."]]>patents ip swpats alcatel bell-labs newegg east-texas litigation lucenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ec1433c02f00/Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners | Ars Technica2013-04-08T14:44:11+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/meet-the-nice-guy-lawyers-who-want-1000-per-worker-for-using-scanners/
jmvia:nelson ethics business legal patents swpats patent-trolls texas shakedownhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d63786bd444d/How Copyright and Patent reform can make us all wealthier and safer - Events - IIEA - The Institute of International and European Affairs2013-04-05T14:34:07+00:00
http://www.iiea.com/events/how-copyright-and-patent-reform-can-make-us-all-wealthier-and-safer
jmRick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, will examine the case for reform of copyright and patent law in the EU. Legalised file sharing, free sampling and shortened copyright protection times are the main elements of a proposal co-authored by Mr. Falkvinge which was submitted to the European Parliament in 2012. He will question whether, in the context of ever-increasing online activity, existing legal frameworks pose a threat to users’ civil liberties.
]]>rick-falkvinge pirate-party ireland iiea dublin copyright patents filesharinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ce1d42c6a85/The Patent Protection Racket2013-04-03T12:59:55+00:00
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/02.html
jmThe fastest growing industry in the US right now, even during this time of slow economic growth, is probably the patent troll protection racket industry.
]]>joel-on-software patents swpats shakedown extortion us-politics patent-trolls via:fanfhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ebf874da2acf/East Texas Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented, Dismisses Uniloc Claim Against Rackspace2013-03-29T10:47:07+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/28/judge-says-mathematical-algorithms-cant-be-patented-dismisses-uniloc-claim-against-rackspace/
jm
A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace, ruling that mathematical algorithms can’t be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by Uniloc USA asserting that processing of floating point numbers by the Linux operating system was a patent violation.
Chief Judge Leonard Davis based the ruling on U.S. Supreme Court case law that prohibits the patenting of mathematical algorithms. According to Rackspace, this is the first reported instance in which the Eastern District of Texas has granted an early motion to dismiss finding a patent invalid because it claimed unpatentable subject matter.
Red Hat, which supplies Linux to Rackspace, provided Rackspace’s defense. Red Hat has a policy of standing behind customers through its Open Source Assurance program.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5455869 for more discussion.]]>east-texas patents swpats maths patenting law judges rackspace linux red-hat uniloc-usa floating-pointhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49f98e8cc123/How the America Invents Act Will Change Patenting Forever2013-03-16T22:24:56+00:00
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/03/america-invents-act/all/
jm“Now it’s really important to be the first to file, and it’s really important to file before somebody else puts a product out, or puts the invention in their product,” says Barr, adding that it will “create a new urgency on the part of everyone to file faster -- and that’s going to be a problem for the small inventor.”]]>first-to-file omnishambles uspto swpats patents software-patents law legalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1f3a3e655d99/How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail2013-01-27T21:47:08+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/
jmPatent trolling is based upon deficiencies in a critical, but underdeveloped, area of the law. The faster we drive these cases to verdict, and through appeal, and also get legislative reform on track, the faster our economy will be competitive in this critical area. We're competing with other economies that are not burdened with this type of litigation. China doesn't have this, South Korea doesn't have this, Europe doesn't have this. [...]
It's actually surprising how quickly people forget what Lemelson did. [referring to Jerome Lemelson, an infamous patent troll who used so-called "submarine patents" to make billions in licensing fees.] This activity is very similar. Trolls right now "submarine" as well. They use timing, like he used timing. Then they pop up and say "Hello, surprise! Give us your money or we will shut you down!" Screw them. Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that.
]]>patent-trolls east-texas newegg shopping-cart swpat software-patents patents ecommerce soverainhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:383fac7a7c41/Patent trolls want $1,000 for using scanners2013-01-02T15:15:08+00:00
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-want-1000-for-using-scanners/
jm
'You should know also that we have had a positive response from the business community to our licensing program. As you can imagine, most businesses, upon being informed that they are infringing someone’s patent rights, are interested in operating lawfully and taking a license promptly. Many companies have responded to this licensing program in such a manner. Their doing so has allowed us to determine that a fair price for a license negotiated in good faith and without the need for court action is a payment of $900 per employee. We trust that your organization will agree to conform your behavior to respect our patent rights by negotiating a license rather than continuing to accept the benefits of our patented technology without a license. Assuming this is the case, we are prepared to make this pricing available to you.'
And here's an interesting bottom line:
The best strategy for target companies? It may be to ignore the letters, at least for now. “Ignorance, surprisingly, works,” noted Prof. Chien in an e-mail exchange with Ars.
Her study of startups targeted by patent trolls found that when confronted with a patent demand, 22 percent ignored it entirely. Compare that with the 35 percent that decided to fight back and 18 percent that folded. Ignoring the demand was the cheapest option ($3,000 on average) versus fighting in court, which was the most expensive ($870,000 on average).
Another tactic that clearly has an effect: speaking out, even when done anonymously. It hardly seems a coincidence that the Project Paperless patents were handed off to a web of generic-sounding LLCs, with demand letters signed only by “The Licensing Team,” shortly after the “Stop Project Paperless” website went up. It suggests those behind such low-level licensing campaigns aren’t proud of their behavior. And rightly so.
]]>patents via:fanf networks printing printers scanning patent-trolls project-paperless adzpro gosnel faslanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:30abf83b788f/On Patents2012-07-23T10:18:42+00:00
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/27751395263/on-patents
jmI am mostly fine with the concept of “selling stuff you made”, so I’m also against copyright infringement. I don’t think it’s quite as bad as theft, and I’m not sure it’s good for society that some professions can get paid over and over long after they did the work (say, in the case of a game developer), whereas others need to perform the job over and over to get paid (say, in the case of a hairdresser or a lawyer). But yeah, “selling stuff you made” is good. But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas. Ideas are free. They improve on old things, make them better, and this results in all of society being better. Sharing ideas is how we improve. A common argument for patents is that inventors won’t invent unless they can protect their ideas. The problem with this argument is that patents apply even if the infringer came up with the idea independently. If the idea is that easy to think of, why do we need to reward the person who happened to be first?
Of course, in reality it's even worse, since you don't actually have to be first to invent -- just first to file without sufficient people noticing, and people are actively dissuaded from noticing (since it makes their lives riskier if they know about the existence of patents)...]]>business legal ip copyright patents notch minecraft patent-trollshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:62608e1951fa/satellite rescue abandoned due to patents2012-05-22T12:55:25+00:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC-14#Launch_anomaly
jmboeing space patenting via:hn funny sad lockheed-martin ses amc-14 business-process patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fb802a98e2d3/A one-line software patent – and a fix2012-04-04T14:31:39+00:00
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/04/04/one-line-software-patent/
jmvia:fanf patents jbig1 swpats scanning standards rand frand licensinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7d63b72c87e1/The Free Universal Construction Kit | F.A.T.2012-03-21T21:03:49+00:00
http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
jm3d design open-source freedom free toys lego 3d-printing patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fd9b5c997933/A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work2012-03-13T21:11:57+00:00
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/03/opinion-baio-yahoo-patent-lie/
jmpatents swpat upcoming yahoo ip idiocy warchesthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e138cc2b4e59/_Intellectual property rights and innovation: Evidence from the human genome_ (PDF)2012-02-04T20:59:13+00:00
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/LEO/LEO_Williams.pdf
jmvia:fanf genetics ip copyright open-source celera patents papers pdfhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:15a4006a8c83/'What Idiot Wrote The Patent That Might Invalidate Software Patents? Oh, Wait, That Was Me' | Techdirt2011-08-24T14:53:55+00:00
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110822/13094215621/what-idiot-wrote-patent-that-might-invalidate-software-patents-oh-wait-that-was-me.shtml
jmpatents swpats reform usa software-development coding funny techdirthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0a5314ee6ae1/France To Launch a National Patent Troll2011-06-12T20:27:14+00:00
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110609/09021214636/french-government-creates-its-own-giant-patent-troll.shtml
jmfrance fail omgwtfbbq patent-trolls swpats patents government innovation software europehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:06b09c68e6af/The Hargreaves Report2011-05-18T20:31:45+00:00
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/press-release-20110518.htm
jmip law hargreaves uk patents copyrighthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4b7585d235fb/RunwayFinder shut down by patent trolls2010-12-16T12:22:11+00:00
http://blog.runwayfinder.com/
jmpatents swpats patent-trolls flightprep runwayfinder aviation web lawhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:335d3fe9f697/Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents2010-08-12T12:42:14+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/07/why-we-need-to-abolish-software-patents/
jmip patents techcrunch startups swpats via:brian-caulfield softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e83796d9b033/