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2008-11-21 09:11:33 BBC NEWS | Technology | Patent battle over teaching tools | ||
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Blackboard, an American maker of these systems, took the... by surprise late last month when it announced it had bee... patent in the US covering 44 claims related to learning ... systems. | ||
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2008-11-21 09:11:51 A firm tries to patent online wish lists in Europe. Shall we stop them? | ||
http://uk.techcrunch.com/...ts-in-europe-shall-we-stop-them/ | ||
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Last week TechCrunch reported that Channel Intelligence ... based in Florida, had filed a lawsuit for patent infring... against a long list of startups which - get this - offer... products people may want others to buy for them. However... companies d | ||
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2008-11-21 09:07:38 Linux Today - Richard Stallman -- The Anatomy of a Trivial Patent | ||
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Programmers are well aware that many of the software pat... laughably obvious ideas. Yet the patent system's defende... that these ideas are nontrivial, obvious only by hindsig... surprisingly difficult to defeat them in debate. Why is ... | ||
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