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By Eric Waltmire on July 18, 2009
Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979 [Gizmodo] – ". . .Kane Kramer, an inventor by trade, came up with a gadget and music distribution service almost eerily similar to the iPod-iTunes relationship that predates it by three decades. The guy predicted details down to DRM and flash memory's dominance."
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By Eric Waltmire on July 10, 2009
Dealertrack, Inc. v. Huber, et al., Doc. No. 06-2335 (C.D. Cal. 2009) [PDF] Summary. The court granted summary judgment finding the asserted claims directed to a computer aided method of managing a credit application were invalid as failing the machine-or-transformation test from Bilski. The court found the process claims were not tied to a particular [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on July 8, 2009
Software Patent News for July 8th: Microsoft Puts C#, CLI Under No-Lawsuit Umbrella [TechNewsWorld] – "Microsoft stated Tuesday that it will not pursue legal action against open source software developers using C# and CLI programming languages. This will likely make some developers much more confident in using the technologies. However, the promise does not include [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on July 7, 2009
Software Patent Bits for July 7th: Start-up Entrepreneurs & CEO’s: If Your Goal is Investment or Acquisition, You are Probably Patenting the Wrong Things [IP Asset Maximizer Blog] – “The great majority of patent seekers (including those at otherwise sophisticated large companies) believe that patents are best used to keep others off their ‘technology lawns’.” [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on July 4, 2009
Software Patent Bits for July 4th: Bilski at the BPAI – What a Mess (Part 1) – [The 271 Patent Blog] – "…the process of determining patentable subject matter after Bilski has become a weird, metaphysical endeavor. It has gotten to the point that a given claim may receive 4 different interpretations from 4 different [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on May 26, 2009
Software Patent News for May 26th: Patent Thickets, Bad Patents, and Costly Patent Litigation [The Volokh Conspiracy] – . . .we must be especially cautious in assuming that modern problems are necessarily different from those experienced in yesteryear . . . As Professor Khan has shown, the American patent system excelled precisely because it did [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on April 22, 2009
Software Patent Bits for April 22nd: A mantra for Inventors [via Todd Kashdan interviewed at The Happiness Project] – Mark Twain said that “you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” and Ralph Emerson said “life is an experiment” and “the more experiments you [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on April 2, 2009
Software Patent Bits for April 2nd: The Patentability of Software and Business Methods after “In re Bilski”- [David R. Heckadon] – "On Oct 30, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down its highly anticipated decision in In re Bilski, (2007-1130, Fed. Cir. 2008). This case was expected to clarify whether [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on March 28, 2009
Software companies and entruepunurs are faced with the question of whether to spend $8K to 15K to file a non-provisional patent application covering a software invention or whether the money is better spent to keep to the lights on or hire engineer to futher develop the product. Here are the factors you should consider when [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on March 28, 2009
Software Patent News for March 28th: The Death of Business-Method Patents [IEEE Spectrum] – “What we really need to know, but lack the tools to reliably assess, is whether software patents help or hinder innovation. If that question is obvious to ask but impossible to answer, then how are we to decide whether to admit [...]
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