Tag Archives: patent

The White House – Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

Why haven’t you signed this petition?

September 24, 2011 – 2:23 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Its Gene Patents Upheld, Myriad Genetics Moves to Protect Its Secrets

Regard­less of whether or not you agree with the idea of patents on genes, the fact that these patents are forc­ing patients to undergo a more expen­sive and less effec­tive pro­ce­dure should give any­one concern.

August 24, 2011 – 9:51 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable

The court seems to be try­ing to not rule against all soft­ware patents while acknowl­edg­ing they are bro­ken and need to be reformed.

August 19, 2011 – 1:37 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Patent, Programming, Quick Posts, Software Code | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Groklaw – Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys

What’s inter­est­ing about this story is the sus­pi­cion that Google and Apple had not pre­vi­ously filed re-examination requests because their agree­ments with Lodsys pre­vented such an action, appar­ently not so at least for Google.

August 18, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

This American Life – When Patents Attack!

Not upset enough about patents, spend an hour and you’ll get even more upset.

August 2, 2011 – 2:09 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Economist – Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity

Yet another in a long line of arti­cles decry­ing the patent system.

August 1, 2011 – 11:48 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

PLATO History – Yet another PLATO innovation ignored, this time patented by Google

Even Google sub­mits stu­pid and ridicu­lous patents, for stuff already “invented”.

March 22, 2011 – 7:34 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off