Patent Trolls

Patent Trolls Are Killing People -- Literally

Drew Curtis | Posted 04.17.2012

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Drew Curtis

I've recently talked with several folks in the high-tech industry who informed me that part of the reason large companies have been stocking up on patents lately is because they view them like nuclear weapons -- they're a deterrent.

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Patent Balance Needed to Help End the Smartphone Patent Wars

Edward J. Black | Posted 02.21.2012

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Edward J. Black

Hopefully, all of the companies involved in the "patent wars" can return their focus to innovating and competing on the merits of their products.

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Zach Carter

Patent Reform Bill Signed Into Law After Years Of Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.16.2011

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- President Barack Obama signed the long-debated patent reform bill into law on Friday, finally ending a seven-year nightmare for inn...

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Patent-Infringement Lawsuit Against Fark Settled for Zero Dollars. Also, Patent Trolls Suck...

Drew Curtis | Posted 10.11.2011

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Drew Curtis

A lot of you were already aware that Fark was sued by a patent troll back in January. But now it's over and I want to tell everyone what really happened: we didn't pay them a single dime.

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Mark Cuban: Solving Our Country's Patent Law Flaws

Mark Cuban | Posted 10.08.2011

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Mark Cuban

If we had process patents or the culture of software litigation in the 1980s as we have today current technology would consist of running terminals on DEC and Wang Computers at the local library for $10 per hour and there probably would not be a world-wide web.

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Zach Carter

THE SPOILSMEN COMETH: How Congress Corrupted Patent Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 10.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- After months of dead-end negotiations over raising the federal debt ceiling, President Barack Obama walked into the East Room of the Whi...

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Proposed Law Could Endanger Internet Entrepreneurship

Paul Kedrosky | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Website, Patent-Trolls, Small Business, California, Copyright, Patrick Leahy, Entrepreneurs, Protect IP, Intellectual Property, Spotify, Amazon, Small Business America, Startups, turntable.fm, Entrepreneurship, Patents, Technology News
Paul Kedrosky

There are many problems with the PROTECT IP legislation. For starters, a site can be blacklisted the day a U.S. judge receives the complaint. Bang, you no longer exist to American web users.

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Patents

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Choate, Congress, Intellectual Property, Unemployment, David-Kappos, Jobs, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Job Creation, Patent Trolls, Patents, Business News

The greatest stockpile of unused, cutting-edge technology in the world is sitting in a warehouse in Northern Virginia gathering dust, author Pat Choat...

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