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The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) - Business - The Atlantic

www.theatlantic.com
2012-09-30T00:02:49.000Z
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Critics have suggested plenty of reasonable reforms, from eliminating software patents to clamping down on "trolls" who buy up patent portfolios only so they can file lawsuits. But do we need a more radical solution? Would we be possibly be better off without any patents at all?

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On Patents : The Word of Notch

notch.tumblr.com
2012-07-29T03:25:08.000Z
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If you own a software patent, you should feel bad.

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Patent wars, Silicon Valley, and DIY software innovators. - Slate Magazine

www.slate.com
2012-03-01T04:13:51.000Z
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Patents are supposed to reward innovation, but in the software industry, they are having the opposite effect. The patent system has become a minefield that punishes innovators who accidentally infringe the patents of others. There are now so many software patents in force that it is practically impossible to avoid infringing them all.

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Carmack rewriting Doom 3 source code to dodge legal issues | VG247

www.vg247.com
2011-11-18T00:17:14.000Z
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According to a tweet from the developer, Bethesda’s lawyers are “skittish about the patent issue” surrounding the code for “Carmack’s Reverse,” which is a stencil shadowing technique patented by Creative Labs and jointly created by the id legend and other coders.

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End the Patent Wars

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2011-10-28T13:56:43.000Z
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Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words

yro.slashdot.org
2009-10-30T14:42:12.000Z
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Damn - I had this idea for use on my own work, if I ever got around to self-publishing. "Amazon's newly-patented System and Method for Marking Content, which calls for 'programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content,' including 'books, short stories, product reviews, book or movie reviews, news articles, editorial articles, technical papers, scholastic papers, and so on' in an effort to uniquely identify customers who redistribute material. "

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igdmlgd: AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST

igdmlgd.blogspot.com
2007-10-17T18:59:47.000Z
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"In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. "

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A Patent Lie - New York Times

www.nytimes.com
2007-06-12T14:43:23.000Z
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"As more and more lawsuits rock the industry, we should ask if software patents are stifling innovation. Bill Gates certainly thought so in 1991, even if he won’t admit it today."

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Outrageous [dive into mark]

diveintomark.org
2007-05-16T18:06:52.000Z
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"It’s an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable. I’m ashamed to have been a part of it."

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ongoing · Four Words for Microsoft

www.tbray.org
2007-05-14T18:56:11.000Z
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"Litigate or shut up."

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Microsoft's RSS Patent Theft

www.feedblog.org
2007-01-02T20:59:09.000Z
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"They're clearly aware that contributing to the community is important but they have no problem stabbing us in the back at the same time."

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Samba developer resigns from Novell

arstechnica.com
2006-12-22T21:01:03.000Z
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"The Microsoft patent agreement has put [Novell developers] outside the community and there is no positive aspect to that fact, and no way to make it so"

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Apple seeks controversial patents on use of RSS - The Social Software Weblog

socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com
2006-03-11T15:39:17.000Z
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"It looks like Apple has filed for patents on some uses of RSS."

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News feed browser - United States Patent Application: 0050289468

appft1.uspto.gov
2006-03-08T15:03:17.000Z
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"Techniques for detecting, managing, and presenting syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed." Also from Apple.

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News feed viewer - United States Patent Application: 0050289147

appft1.uspto.gov
2006-03-08T15:02:24.000Z
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"Techniques for presenting and managing syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed." This is from Apple.

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Cingular Patents the Emoticon :(

www.cellular-news.com
2006-01-26T19:39:08.000Z
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Bastards. Let's burn the patent office.

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Microsoft FAT patent rejected - again | The Register

www.theregister.co.uk
2005-10-06T11:23:34.000Z
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"The case had been raised by open source defenders who feared that Microsoft was preparing a legal offensive against Linux based on enforcement of intellectual property rights."

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John Carmack: "This sucks."

arstechnica.com
2004-07-31T01:11:18.000Z
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"Claiming patent rights not just on a specific piece of code, but on an algorithm is hardly different from claiming to hold a patent on the quadratic equation."

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"Virtual desktop manager" patent applied for by Microsoft

arstechnica.com
2004-02-26T15:08:11.000Z
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'Microsoft has applied for a software patent #20030189597 for a "Virtual desktop manager".'

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Patent lawyer puts claim to entire Internet

www.theregister.co.uk
2004-01-17T17:23:07.000Z
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On Slashdot, "W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination" So can we let the web work again, please?

slashdot.org
2003-10-29T18:42:27.000Z
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