Dave Winer: Patents

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 03:11:01 GMT

Fortune: "Katz spends all his time making money from patents rather than selling an actual product or a service."

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:12:04 GMT

NY Times: "Amid a general surge in patent activity, IBM was granted 3,411 patents by the USPTO last year, the first time any company collected more than 3,000 in a single year."

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:11:04 GMT

Rick Adams on a patent for a "multi-threaded name server."

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 19:57:19 GMT

News.Com: Doubt cast over Web standard's ownership.

Wed, 02 May 2001 03:54:39 GMT

Linux Journal: "User interface pioneer Douglas Engelbart, who demonstrated a mouse-driven hypertext system called NLS in 1968, said in an interview Wednesday that he will help Prodigy defend itself against a patent infringement lawsuit filed by British Telecom. BT is suing Prodigy for infringement of BT's patent on hyperlinks."

Sun, 11 Feb 2001 03:37:43 GMT

Dan Gillmor: I sent another e-mail to an Amazon PR person -- that's three so far -- asking whether the company has filed for a patent on its Honor System payment method. Still no reply.

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:04:41 GMT

News.Com: Amazon debuts Honor System. Dubbed the Amazon Honor System, the new payment method will allow Web sites to solicit small donations from visitors or charge for content on a pay-per-view basis. The system will tie into Amazon's one-click payment feature and Amazon's customer database... (Shouldn't we ask first if they've taken out a patent on this?)

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:03:28 GMT

Atomz.Com: "The key to the Atomz Publish system is its patent-pending templating system, which allows Web designers to clearly separate Web content from site design, and then give access to non-technical users of the Web site so that they can edit the content themselves." It must be a joke.

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:00:55 GMT

There's a big debate on the XML-DEV list about a Sun patent interfering with the W3C Xpointer activity. A famous pundit, the W3C, a major platform vendor, and a browser feature that (as far as I know) no major browser implements. Possible prior art. A disruption in the flow of new ideas. (xmlhack has been covering the story.)

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:01:10 GMT

News.Com: Priceline, Expedia settle patent infringement suit. Under the settlement, Expedia, an Internet travel-booking service controlled by Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, will continue to operate its Price Matcher services and will pay undisclosed royalties to Priceline. Priceline, based here, is an Internet-based seller of services using a name-your-own price format.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:01:09 GMT

First Monday: The expansion of the patent system.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:41:42 GMT

SF Chronicle: "More and more, our own government has proven itself willing to hand big corporations like Cisco this kind of financial home court advantage -- for a fee. It comes in the form of U.S. Patent Law."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:00:59 GMT

Legal Battle Escalates Between Top Free ISPs. The federal courts awarded NetZero a temporary restraining order against Juno Monday over its ad banner technology. Juno says the technology is theirs and NetZero is the one infringing on its technology.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:00:34 GMT

Geoworks Settles Patent Claim. Volkswagon and wireless technology-enabler Telelogic bring drivers next generation radios. Also in this week's Unwired News: A prominent patent lawsuit is settled ... pagers aren't old school ... and Samsung's new PDA phone. By Elisa Batista.

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:23:04 GMT

More Silliness Over Patents: NetZero sues Juno

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:15:10 GMT

Jeffrey D. Ullman: Ordinary Skill in the Art. "We should search for ways to protect the true intellectual property of an innovation, rather than using questionable 'inventions' in the software area to protect it."