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During a conference call, interim Chief Financial Officer Cal Hoagland said TiVo will face increased expenses in the current quarter, including holiday-related marketing and costs related to an ongoing patent battle with Dish Network Corp. A Sept. 4 court date has been set as TiVo seeks to collect on the $94 million it has been awarded in damages.
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MPEG LA, LLC and SISVEL S.p.A. announce that as of August 26, 2008 the administration of the DVB-T licensing program, including the administration of all DVB-T Patent Portfolio Licenses previously executed by MPEG LA and licensees, has been transferred from MPEG LA to SISVEL. The DVB-T patent pool offers a fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to patents owned by France Télécom, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., and Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) that have been determined to be essential for implementing DVB-T, the terrestrial digital television broadcast standard (European Telecommunications Standardization Institute ("ETSI") document ETS300744).
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Patent-licensing and enforcement company General Patent Corp International has reached a settlement with Motorola over a disputed patent belonging to one of GPCI's clients, Digital Technology Licensing. GPCI said the patent owned by DTL is essential to wireless communications, and its applications include handsets, base stations, and Bluetooth headsets. The companies did not disclose the terms of the settlement.
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We hear from an academic who believes that intellectual property law could smother the very innovation it is designed to protect, leaving the economy in gridlock * Download OUT-LAW Radio, 28/08/2008 (10MB, 12 minutes) * Low quality recording for 28/08//2008 (2MB, 12 minutes) * Instructions for listening and subscribing to OUT-LAW Radio * For a transcript, email radio@out-law.com
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Intellectual property laws which were designed to protect inventors are actually stifling innovation, according to a leading US law academic. Michael Heller, an academic at Columbia University in New York, told technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that intellectual property laws are being used to stop new products and services being made. "I discovered a paradox in the free market and it is this: usually private ownership creates wealth, but too much ownership has the opposite effect - it creates gridlock," he said. "When too many owners control a single resource – it can be a patent, a copyright, land – when too many people control a single resource, co-operation breaks down and wealth disappears. Everybody ends up losing."
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stopsoftwarepatents.org — You want to get your software association, software company, software consultancy, software project involved in the 24 September World Day Against Software Patents and are able to speak in the name of your organisation? Please give us your contact data below.
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Klausner, inventor of the personal digital assistant (PDA) and the electronic organizer, has successfully brought suit for infringement against multiple telephone companies, voice-over-internet providers (VoIP) [FCC backgrounder], and internet service providers, including AOL, Time Warner, and eBay. Klausner filed [complaint, PDF] a similar claim against Apple Computer and AT&T late last year, alleging that the technology used by Apple's iPhone infringes on the same visual voicemail patents. The parties settled in July [Reuters report] after the patents were licensed to Apple, but the financial details of the settlement were not disclosed. Last October, internet VoIP Vonage settled a patent lawsuit [JURIST report; press release] concerning Vonage's use of Verizon's technology.
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Generally, defendants were "wrong to go to trial" less often than plaintiffs - for defendants, the choice to litigate was wrong in 24 percent of cases, while plaintiffs were wrong in 61 percent of cases. In just 15 percent of cases, both sides were right to go to trial. However, while defendants were wrong less often, the price for being wrong was substantially greater - getting it wrong cost plaintiffs about $43,000. For defendants, the cost was $1.1 million.
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Inventor Judas Klausner filed a patent infringement suit this week against nine companies, including Google, Verizon Communications and LG Electronics, alleging they infringe on his visual voicemail technology patent. A Jurist report points out that the technology involves providing a visual list of voicemail through which a user can view and retrieve individual messages.
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Lofgren, who represents the Bay Area and is a key member of the House Judiciary Committee, said a new effort should begin with "things we know we can agree on." A proposal that would curb judicial "venue-shopping" for favorable courts is critical as is language to address patent abuses, she said. "How do you legally set a framework that prevents abuses and allows for a vigorous system that protects intellectual property?" Lofgren asked aloud. "It's not easy to come up with solutions."
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a request by Blackboard Inc. for a temporary halt in the office’s review of a software patent the company holds concerning course-management systems. This year Blackboard won a lawsuit in federal court against a rival software company, Desire2Learn, for violating the patent, though Desire2Learn has appealed the decision.
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With FSF and ILUGC friends, also representing our LoCo Community attended the Patent Manual - Stake Holder’s Meet held at Intellectual Property Office, Guindy, Chennai. The Manual has provisions for bringing in Software Patents in cases what it claims to be “Software combined with Hardware”. We expressed our concerns on it and the ambiguity over the term used.
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If you have a moment to spare, please visit the following page [http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/call] and put your name down. The world needs your support to ensure elimination of the main legal barrier to the triumph of Free software.
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The goal of GPL 3 is to bring the concepts of GPL 2 into the modern era by addressing certain of GPL 2's loopholes and omissions. In large part, GPL 2 did not provide patent protection for software because it wasn't needed. At the time of GPL 2’s release in 1991, it addressed proprietary software head-on by its mere existence. The GPL was true free software and required downstream users who modified, developed, or used it to maintain its free nature by providing all source code downstream. However, GPL 2 no longer addresses the modern world's problems.
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pieterh writes "Veteran European anti-software patent campaigners have launched World Day against Software Patents on StopSoftwarePatents.org, writing: "The issue of software patents is a global one, and several governments and patent offices around the world continue to grant software & business method patents on a daily basis; they are pushing for legal codification of the practice, such as currently in New Zealand and India, and via the misappropriation of Free Trade Agreement instruments. We declare the 24 September as the World Day Against Software Patents, in commemoration of the European Parliament First Reading in 2003 with amendments stopping the harmful patenting of software, guaranteeing that software programmers and businesses can safely benefit from the fruits of their work under copyright law."
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Stopsoftwarepatents.org is calling for the World Day Against Software Patents on the 24 of September, the day of the rejection of the European Parliament First Reading in 2003. You want to get your software association, software company, software consultancy, software project involved in the 24 September World Day Against Software Patents and are able to speak in the name of your organisation? Please give us your contact data below. Your organisation gets the opportunity to be listed as a supporter for the announcement of the World Day Against Software Patents.
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That is Software patents refer to patents that could be granted on products or processes (including methods) which include or may include software as a significant or at least necessary part of their implementation, i.e. the form in which they are put in practice (or used) to produce the effect they intend to provide.
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The term “software” does not have a precise definition and even the software industries fails to give an specific definition. But it is basically used to describe all of the different types of computer programs. Computer programs are basically divided into “application programs” and “operating system programs”. Application programs are designed to do specific tasks to be executed through the computer and the operating system programs are used to manage the internal functions of the computer to facilitate use of application program. Though the term ‘Software patent’ does not have a universally accepted definition. One definition suggested by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is that a software patent is a "patent on any performance of a computer realized by means of a computer program".
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The world unites in a new Web site against software patents. It’s called “Stop Software Patents”, as opposed to “End Software Patents” and it illustrates just how much resistance from how many different directions is aimed at destroying an anti-social, anti-developers law, or at least prevent it from spreading.
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Challenge me if this statement is quite misleading: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) within the Information Communications & Technology (ICT) industry in Malaysia is largely segmented". To quantify, ideally, most of the IPR components that hit the national headlines are mostly on infringement. And of all the decided cases in our national courts - are purely surrounded by invalidation and infringement cases - so much so, the ICT industry is still hoping for more development and progress.
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