Showing posts with label patent thickets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patent thickets. Show all posts
31 March 2013

If Microsoft Shuts Down Google Maps In Germany, How Does That Benefit The Public?

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Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...
29 November 2011

Getting Lost in the Patent Thicket Thicket

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One of the many hopeful signs that the Hargreaves team knew what they were talking about was the recognition that patent thickets were an ...
14 August 2011

Patents: Just Do the Maths

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As I've noted , there is an sudden efflorescence of writing about the ills of the patent system. Obviously, on one level, that's gr...
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19 April 2011

Of Apple and Android: Running Scared

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The smartphone space is turning into a textbook example of why patents not only do not promote innovation as their supporters claim so insis...
14 January 2011

Fabbers: Mega-Damage by Micro-Patents

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As my occasional postings on the subject indicate, one area that fascinates me is that of fabbers , aka 3D printers . One reason is that th...
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09 November 2010

A Patent No-brainer, Mr Willetts

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There has been understandable excitement over David Cameron's announcement - out of the blue - that the UK government would be looking a...
12 February 2008

The Thin End of the Software Patents Wedge

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On Open Enterprise blog .
28 March 2007

Patently Not Obvious

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Regular readers of this blog will know that I have an instinctive suspicion of organisations that try to co-opt weasel words. And now we ha...