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Radical Surgery to Fix Software Patents

Radical Surgery to Fix Software Patents

By Bob Warfield on August 21, 2011

I’m from the camp that says we’re way past the point of patents fostering innovation, if they ever did.  It didn’t take me long reading Scoble’s post this morning about the value of WebOS’s patents to HP possibly making the unit a profitable venture to be reminded once again that while patents may be a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Hewlett-Packard, intellectual property, motorola, Nathan Myhrvold, Patent, TouchPad, webos | 1 Response

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Friday Rant: E-LYNNX — The E-Sourcing Patent Trolls Are Out Again

By Jason Busch on July 1, 2011

James Carville, Bill Clinton’s famous political consultant, once observed that Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. I can partially attest to this having lived in both cities and spent one year of m…

Posted in Business | Tagged Patent, patent troll | 1 Response

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011

By Dennis Moore on April 15, 2011

Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon.com, apple, C3, Cisco, Cloud, Dell, Epicor, google, hadoop, hp, ibm, Infor, Larry Ellison, Lawson, Marc Benioff, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, mySQL, news, NoSQL, oracle, Patent, PeopleSoft, salesforce.com, sap, Steve Ballmer, VMware, workday

Software Patents Should Be Abolished

Software Patents Should Be Abolished

By Bob Warfield on September 11, 2010

Still think patents are about protecting the little guy? The USPTO now takes an average of 6 years to grant a patent (hat tip to Techmeme).  In the long run, you’ll likely get your patent since almost anything is patentable these days, however outlandish it may be.  But in the long run, we’re all dead, […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged intellectual property, Patent, software patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office, uspto | 1 Response

Our “patently absurd” patent system

Our “patently absurd” patent system

By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 8, 2010

While my book is not specifically about patents, a book that focuses on innovation and grand challenges would be remiss to not point what a “grand challenge” it would be fix our patent system. Some excerpts about patents from The New Polymath The Wall Street Journal in an editorial summarized the mess the patent system […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged intellectual property, Law, Lawsuit, Patent, Patent infringement, Prior art, The New Polymath, United States Patent and Trademark Office

The Problem with Software Patents

The Problem with Software Patents

By Bob Warfield on May 8, 2010

Software patents are a disaster for innovation.  The system is asymmetrical, in the sense that it is very expensive to defend against a patent suit.  At the same time, it is very easy to get a patent on almost anything, including things people have no business getting patents on.  I have a friend who was […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged copyright, innovation, intellectual property, Invention, Law, Lawsuit, Patent | 13 Responses

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