Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 09:55 AM EDT |
What stolen IP is this?
Oracle tried to claim they owned some but the courts disagreed, I'm not aware of
any others currently.
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Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 12:53 PM EDT |
Dude, the court and the jury ruled that
Google was innocent of any copying except
by a company it hired to do one task and
made a mistake on a tiny amount of code that
didn't cost Oracle anything.
You should go away and not comment on Groklaw
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Authored by: Mikkel on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 12:56 PM EDT |
You argument about no innovation does not carry much weight when you consider
Linux. Or how about the fact that OSX started from FreeBSD? There are countless
examples of software being developed and given away for free. The history of
free software predates Apple and Microsoft. For that matter, MSDOS was based on
CP/M. The first versions were just a 16 bit version of CP/M. If there had been
software patents back them, Microsoft would never have gotten past MS-Basic.
Digital Research would have killed MS-DOS for patent infringement.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 02:52 PM EDT |
The trouble starts when the patent is issued to cover more than the
invention. The invention of a device sending air through a hot water or cold
freon radiator is written to cover controlling the climate inside cars interior
cabin. Worse yet is if the inventor made a fireplace for a car and the patent is
written and granted to cover a warm interior.
He then gets a new patent for using coal instead of wood and has control of a
car's interior for another 25 years.
It's not the inventor or lawyer at fault. It's the patents. Fix what can be
patented or enforce the limits on what can be patented.
Enforcing the teaching requirement and the obviousness parameter would be a
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