Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 08:14 PM EDT |
A Long-Delayed COX2 Issue Gets Settled - For
$450 Million?
The Rochester story is one that many
readers will be familiar with. The university, famously, obtained a patent for
compounds that exerted a therapeutic effect through inhibition of COX-2, without
specifying what compounds those might be. They did not, in fact, have any, nor
did they give any hints about what they'd look like, and this is what sank them
in the end when the university lost its case against Searle (and its patent) for
not fulfilling the "written description" requirement."
Seems like
bad patents aren't limited to software. Why do people think they can just write
out some nonsensical patent on a bare idea without telling someone how to
actually implement it? Oh, right, because some "inventors" want to use them as
a get-rich-quick scheme. I'm just glad that part got shot down.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 01:03 AM EDT |
The types of voluntary industry agreements to
deal with online
intellectual property theft that began
popping up in the United States in 2011
need to be expanded
domestically and copied abroad, the White House's
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator said during a
Senate Judiciary
Committee Oversight Hearing May 9.
“I think we have established a good
model for other
countries, and I want to see other countries encourage these
voluntary agreements,” Victoria A. Espinel said during her
testimony.
Bureau of National
Affairs
The article identifies agreements with major
U.S. payment
processors — American Express, Discover,
MasterCard, PayPal, and Visa — to
block payments to web
sites that allow downloading of infringing materials as
well
as agreements with 6 unidentified major ISPs that will
notify users when
they download infringing material. There
is no discussion of the means or
persons who will determine
which web sites and ISP users have infringed, nor of
who
will determine which materials infringe.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 02:59 AM EDT |
This would be the perfect time to release unwanted information, when the
Groklawers and the world are busy with covering this trial. Any news on SCO, for
example?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 03:45 AM EDT |
linky
I
have a feeling that this design might ironically catch on as feature/basic phone
replacements.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 12:45 PM EDT |
It seems the US has been allowing people to patent natural phenomena and
mathematics for a long time. I was just researching dice, and found a claim at
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_trapezohedron that "the US
patent office has a patent showing a similar die dated 1906".
Even if you assume that the "idea" patented is the concept of making a
solid instance of the mathematical model, it still seems blindingly obvious.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 02:58 PM EDT |
Naturally he was so surprised that he has devoted a new article to it.
(The test files issue that oracle just got JMOL on, that he originally brought
to
light.)
I Suppose when you are that prolific, some stuff has to end up right , like the
monkeys with typewriters.
Anyway it will be interesting to see if the infringing profits that they want
will
even pay for a day in court. I doubt it, and the judge doesn't seem too
impressed with the case either.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 04:50 PM EDT |
Is Microsoft blocking Chrome and
Firefox from
native Windows RT a big deal?
Microsoft is back with big
time anti-trust violation.
Microsoft is including the Win32 API on Windows RT
(running
on ARM) for its own use, but blocking others from accessing
it.
Microsoft is attempting to use the fact that it has no
market share on ARM
devices yet to avoid anti-trust action.
However it is clearly a blatent abuse
of anti-trust law
since Microsoft has a desktop OS monopoly on the Win32 API,
and it is abuse this monopoly by extending the Win32 API to
Windows RT devices
while blocking others from using it, in
order to leverage and extend its
Windows desktop monopoly to
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 09:01 PM EDT |
GOOG has about 33,000
employees.
---
Ubuntu systems at Google are upgraded every LTS
release. The entire process of upgrading can take as much as 4 months and it is
also quite expensive as one reboot or a small change can cost them as much as 1
million dollars.
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/05/how-google-developers-use-ubuntu.html[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Davo.Sydney on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 09:11 PM EDT |
Alison Courses have a lot of free online training (There are ad's and one
pay's
for the certificates) and one course just released is "Introduction
to
Copyright Law in America" I haven't done the course (yet), but if someone
can
review it and let the Groklaw Community know if it's a good place to learn
about
the USA Copyright laws that might be of some help to someone.
Extracts
from the course description:
"This free online course is an
introduction to copyright law as practised
in the United States, however, the
principles and concepts will be of interest
to legal professionals in other
jurisdictions."
"It also reviews software licensing, and the General
Public License and
free software."
"Introduction to Copyright Law in
America is originally from and published
by MIT and has a duration of 4-5 Hours
for the average learner. "
Alison Courses - Introduction to Copyright Law in America
Davo[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: symbolset on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 12:18 AM EDT |
He wrote this code while working at Google, where he still works. It's his
code. The contributor doesn't lose ownership of the copyright by contributing
the code to Java - it's a joint assignment. So this Joshua Bloch guy can just
grant Google a license out of his own rights, and they're good to go. Shouldn't
take five minutes to scribble out. Why isn't this done?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 01:59 AM EDT |
site might be overloaded
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