Search results

Party crasher Brad Smith, 48, became Microsoft's senior vice president and general counsel in 2002, the year the company settled most of its U.S. antitrust litigation. A strawberry-blond Princeton graduate with a law degree from Columbia, Smith is a polished, thoughtful and credible advocate...

Supreme Court eases patent standards Caught in the middle are big corporate Linux users like Wal-Mart, AIG, and Goldman Sachs. Free-worlders say that if Microsoft prevails, the whole quirky ecosystem that produced Linux and other free and open-source software (FOSS) will be undermined...

Microsoft takes on the free world Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports. By Roger Parloff, Fortune senior...

The "whole" consists of hundreds if not thousands of patents. In practical terms, it's the Same thing. Using a trademark brand to act as mother ship for all of it's component patents.

So assuming it hasn't been filed, and just for example sake, I can write a speech recognition algorithm into Windows XP source that can recognize simplied Chinese via frequency waves of human voice, and then do a $200 patent filing and squeeze Microsoft out of that biz? And tell me, if one of...

You're not serious, are you? Assuming they are not yours, you cannot infringe on existing patents, and borrow technologies for free to register new ones. Tell me, you're a tech by day and lawyer by night?

You will not see actual production, IN YOUR LIFETIME.

In the 90's we were led to believe that 14.4kb/sec was the maximum throughput via copper wire. Modem manufactures claimed it was not physically possible to break this ceiling throughput. Today you can get 1.5mb/s via copper DSL. So much for "natural law"

Their architecture is entirely different.

There is a loophole to patent law, whereby the owner can modify an existing and essentially protect interests forever. Only the owner can do this as he exclusively owns the technology. Someone who then uses the previous platformed tech is sued because it's too similar to the current...

"He who controls the spice, controls the universe" An index of US Patents in class123, subclass 545- ' internal combustion engine carburetors that use heat to vaporize gasoline' is given from the years 1997 to 1900: Classification: 123/545 Total: 569 5606956 O 5598826 X 5555855 X...

In 1933 Charles Nelson Pogue made headlines when he drove a 1932 Ford V8, 200 miles on a gallon of gas during a demonstration conducted by The Ford Motor Companies in Winnipeg, Manitoba using his super-carb system. In fact, many people attested to these mileage claims as The Pogue Carb went into...

They own all supercarbeurator patents. Government, Big Business Prevent Marketing of Super High Mileage Carburetors Source: The Secret Super High Mileage Report Published: 1999 Author: J. Bruce McBurney Numerous times over the last sixty years, both mechanics and inventors have...

Crude oil would be at sub 50 if such a technology was mass produced. You missed the point.. so did the other guy. They are not mass produced because it is not in the interests of oil co's to have them available in the free market. This is an example of patents stifling innovation. They own...

There is a loophole to patent law, whereby the owner can utilize it into a new "machine" that incorporates that patent, and then patent that again, endlessly.

Big oil owns a technology patent that enables automobiles to get 80 miles per gallon using a paint roller type fuel feeder. Nope, we'll never see that one either.

I dislike the Chinese, but for other reasons. China is just a method to my madness. I'm striking on something entirely different, something much bigger, how badly people here in the states are so brainwashed from the truth. Nation full of insulated hypocrites.

That's what it says on page 135 in Econ 102 or US History. Actually, war, taxation and slavery in it's various forms is how the USA came to be. So actualy you are correct as patents is a form of taxation to the common man.

Yes, the world is at Nash Equilibrium, the payout matrix resembles a prisoner's dillema. The optimal strategy/payoff scenario for the individiual is to be as paranoid and distrustful as possible. Litigation, and more litigation. Hmm, guess who's really benefiting from all this. Americans...

Imagine if there was a Chinese patent on paper and type.. Many of the great minds may have never written down their ideas.