Follow the link on Slashdot for a fascinating history lesson - seems as though the entire concept of self-propelled vehicles powered by internal combustion engines was once patented! And fought (successfully) by Henry Ford ...

Suing Your Customers: Winning Business Strategy? [Slashdot]
1:51:42 PM     comment []

Well, it seems as though the lawyers have finally reduced themselves to literally taking toys away from little kids!

Please, Mr. Intellectual Property Maven - 'talking book technology', as embodied in this product is not new: remember Teddy Ruxpin from 1985? There is enough prior art along these lines to fill a small building. What was the Patent Office thinking?

Toys Boys War Over Talking Books. Leapfrog sues Mattel for patent infringement of its popular talking-book technology. Mattel shakes its collective head and says nah, nah, we didn't do it. Did Mattel just do it better? [Wired News]
7:50:07 AM     comment []