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Amazon is selling the Nokia 900 for $0.01 a savings of $499.98
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 06:12 AM EDT
This is what happens to Microsoft Partners. Clicky I want one . I hope it is able to run Android.

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Not a troll?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 06:39 AM EDT
On the contrary, it's easy to paint them as a troll, seeing as they are a Non
Practicing Entity. really, does there need to be any more significant definition
than that?

bkd

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Paul Allen vs World: Prior Art Thread
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 06:48 AM EDT
I would do this logged in, but I can't.

If anyone can take a look at the respective patents and come up with some prior
art (or even just post a link to their text), it would almost certainly be
appreciated.

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Corrections Thread
Authored by: bugstomper on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 07:35 AM EDT
Please summarize in the Title box error->correction or s/error/correction/ to
make it easy to scan to see what corrections have been submitted.

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- Stay Lifted - Expect A Rough Ride ~mw
Authored by: webster on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 07:43 AM EDT
.

Patent valuations have been getting a rough ride lately, too.
Ask Oracle and Judge Posner. Let's hope the claims are
realistically devalued.

.

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News Picks Thread
Authored by: bugstomper on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 07:57 AM EDT
Please type the title of the News Picks article in the Title box and include a
link to the article in your comment.

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Hey, anyone notice the Apple ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 07:58 AM EDT
... news about their widespread misuse of patents? They just
won an injunction (on a superseded product, fortunately)
using their patent on "rectangles with rounded corners."

Just saying.

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Off Topic Here
Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 09:31 AM EDT
:-)

---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Comes Stuff Here
Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 09:32 AM EDT
:-|

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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It is terribly sad
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 09:56 AM EDT
It is terribly sad to see that the Patent Office and the courts are so
incompetent that they will allow such absurd and clearly invalid patents to be
used to harass businesses. Let me be clear. NO reasonable and knowledgeable
person could possibly think that these patents are valid. I am sure that a
great many copyright maximalists will say they are valid on the grounds that
they love patents on principle and that they define "valid" as meaning
that anything the patent office rules must be right. Mindless ideology aside,
these patents are junk, it was illegal to issue them, and the patent office and
the judge in this case should be ashamed to see legitimate companies harassed
over them.

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Another angle
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 10:06 AM EDT
If so much of the industry has come up with the same idea(s) independently, I
think that would make the case for obviousness. :)

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The NPE distinction is a red herring
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 02:00 PM EDT
I think the distinction between practicing and non-practicing entities is a red herring. It is irrelevant. Apple comes up with a silly patent, and enforcement is OK because they're practicing? I figure out some technique to improve, say, cellular radio performance, but I shouldn't be able to enforce it because I can't build entire cellular radios?

As Apple has been clearly demonstrating recently, practicing entities can assert silly patents. I do think that restricting injunctions by NPEs makes sense in most cases - it's not like they can be harmed by sales of a competing product.

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This is dire news, but the days of the NPE may hopefully be limited...
Authored by: Zarkov on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 08:16 PM EDT
Some recent US research suggests that NPE trolls have cost the US economy tens of billions of dollars in 2011 alone: P atent trolling cost the US $29 Billion Dollars

Hopefully one of your bright stars in the US Senate or Congress might wake up from their slumber and relaise that your Patent rules are not only killing your own competitiveness, but also making it harder for those of us in the rest of the world to be innovative as well.

Hopefully they might decide that the cost of allowing patents on software outweighs any benefits... thats the only chance I see for the world to be rid of the problem which the US has created..

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Allen v World - Stay Lifted - Expect A Rough Ride ~mw
Authored by: kawabago on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 08:54 PM EDT
That so many entities must have independently invented the
same thing at about the same time says far more about the
quality of the patents than anything else.

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