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TomTom denies Microsoft's patent infringement assertions
Posted on February 26, 2009DowJones reported: Dutch navigations solutions company TomTom NV said Feb. 26 it rejects all Microsoft Corp.'s claims that it is infringing on eight of its patents.Microsoft Corp. said Feb. 25 that it filed patent-infringement claims in a federal court for the Western District of Washington in the U...
CNET trashes Intellectual Ventures
Posted on February 26, 2009Matt Asay wrote:When I negotiate contracts with customers, intellectual-property indemnification is always the top legal concern. Always.But it's not because of Microsoft and its recent TomTom patent lawsuit, or other such infringement suits between vendors...
CIRM spending lots of money on lawyers
Posted on February 26, 2009Californiastemcellreport noted on Wed., Feb. 25:Next Thursday, the Governance Subcommittee of the CIRM board of directors is expected to increase payments for its main outside counsel, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, of San Leandro, Ca., and also for Nancy Koch, who deals with intellectual property issues...
Automobile not invented in America, but ...
Posted on February 25, 2009SecuringInnovation bashed Obama for suggesting the automobile was invented by Americans.But, then, there is this text on Securing Innovation -->Steinmetz secured 200 patents in his lifetime and advocated the creation of an affordable electric automobile that would sell for less than $1,000 and could compete with gasoline powered cars like the Model T Ford and the costly Detroit Electric, an electric car created by the Anderson Electric Car Co...
LATimes quotes Lemley in anti-Bilski piece
Posted on February 24, 2009In a piece titled "Patent rules out of date," the LA Times wrote:Neither the patent appeals board nor the federal court ruled that business methods can't be patented, but patent attorneys fear that will be the end result as few would pass the revised test...
Former guv Locke pick for Commerce
Posted on February 24, 2009WaPo reports: Former Washington governor Gary Locke is likely to be President Obama's choice to head the Commerce Department, according to several administration officials briefed on the decision.WaPo did NOT mention the USPTO in its story, but did note:The Commerce Department's stated mission is to promote U...
Lying, even when technically plagiarism, is still lying
Posted on February 24, 2009A post on examiner.com by Laura Smith-Proulx made a straightforward comment about copying from someone else's resume:It happens all the time - your friend has the same job, and you swipe a few sentences from his resume. While this is technically plagiarism, there's worse news for anyone who does this: your friend's resume ISN'T about you...
Facebook fiasco: overzealous lawyering?
Posted on February 23, 2009The Consumerist blog wrote of Facebook: "Facebook's New Terms of Service: 'We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.' " [Facebook has since rolled back the changes]ComputerWorld wrote: Was that what Facebook had in mind with the change in terms? Probably not...
Fast Company pushes peer-to-patent
Posted on February 23, 2009FastCompany writes: Researchers at the Center for Technology Assessment hope to use that insight to clear out the enormous blacklog of U.S. patent applications, which is stifling American innovation simply because inventors must wait so long to get their patents approved and be assured of their intellectual property...
Ranking of patent blogs
Posted on February 23, 2009Back in 2006, IPBiz noted:Returning to the central theme, bloggers are not evaluated on the accuracy of what they write, but who links to them. Linking may relate to approval at some level, but it is hardly analogous to peer review. Peer review, to first order, is about the plausibility of the logic, not about whether the underlying experiments are accurate...
Inventor John Kanzius dies
Posted on February 22, 2009The inventor John Kanzius, made famous by an interview with Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes," died on February 18, 2009. See Colleague: Honor Kanzius by supporting research: Sharon McDonald calls Kanzius' radio frequency technology that destroys cancer cells without any significant side effects, one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in cancer treatment...
The hippest template for shameless plagiarism?
Posted on February 22, 2009Speaking about the iriver spinn, Gizmodo writes:Looks like the iriver Spinn is the hippest template for shameless plagiarism these days. Not one but two devices, a camera and a PMP, have popped up with obvious "inspiration" from iriver's '70s-influenced baby...
Blogging as antidote to Sikahema effect?
Posted on February 22, 2009In December 2008, there was a back-and-forth between Joe Mullin and Gary Odom (aka Patent Hawk) about Odom's patent infringement suit against Microsoft, then in ED Texas.At the bottom of the Mullin post was the text:Update: Gary Odom responds to this story...
Remembering URochester and the COX-2 patent litigation
Posted on February 22, 2009IPBiz got a chuckle out of post at Patent Baristas:Mark Lemley, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, seems to distinguish universities from trolls on the premise that universities (generally) do not lie in wait until an industry has developed around a technology and then demanding a disproportionate share of royalties based on irreversible investments...
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