Archive for the tag 'patent troll'

Jan 16 2009

Another brick falls on the US patent system

Published by Stef under business, eng

It looks like the US patent system, that the free software movement has been fighting for the past 25 years, is dying.
First academia started questioning its usefulness (back in 1958), then the conservative cultural circles at WSJ.’  In the recent Blisky case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit put the software patents [...]

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Nov 22 2008

Openmoko forced to fight a patent troll

Published by Stef under business, eng

Instead of innovating the mobile business, OpenMoko is now forced to divert energy on a battle against an Italian patent troll. From a message to the OpenMoko mailing lists:
The short story is that we are in a protracted battle with some patent trolls. Google for Sisvel. In order to get ourselves in a stronger position, [...]

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