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EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired)
Wired covers the
EFF's top ten list of patents to challenge. Number one: "Acacia
Technologies' digital media transmission patent, which the company defines
as covering 'the transmission and receipt of digital content via the
Internet, cable, satellite and other means.' The EFF is worried that
Acacia, which has already sued several large communications companies, is
unfairly targeting small audio- and video-streaming websites."
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EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired) Posted Jun 30, 2004 15:47 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] American Government leaders should be run out of town on rails for bringing about a situation like this.
EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired) Posted Jun 30, 2004 17:16 UTC (Wed) by Eudyptes (guest, #15589) [Link] This kind of crap can not continue. I mean at this rate business in ITand the computer sector will amount to little more than a long string of law suits. The only ones that will make any real profits will be the lawyers. I have read several articles about the USPTO and the fact that those approving the majority of these patents do not understand the technology and there are serious questions regarding the manner in which they site prior art - often times they are not siting prior art and only upon review is any discovered. This means that most of the recently approved patents could be challenged - but usually not until a tort has been filed and then the patent is sent back for review upon which any prior art may be brought to light. Meanwhile, the lawyers are charge hundreds by the hour. I just love the new paradigm of U.S. business wherein the old ¨market strategy¨ has been replace with a strategy of court filings and legal plays. I mean who needs an actual product or client base - just get a few dozen patents and a capable legal team and squeeze your profits from any potential ¨ïnfringer¨. Meanwhile Asia, Europe, and the rest of the world roll on and over U.S. markets because they happen to be producing ¨real¨ products?!
EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired) Posted Jun 30, 2004 18:55 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] Looking at your reply, I could probably pick every conclusion I might make about legal deficiency and legislative idiocy, and then apply those to just about every law I have been interested in.We do not choose representatives for our government in the United States; instead, we pick between groups of kiss-ups to pick the one who will be least likely to kiss up to somebody who will hurt us personally. If this were not true: Old people wouldn't have to choose between food and medicine It wouldn't have taken until 1970 for pushbutton phones to become ubiquitous There would be far less advertising on television Laws like DMCA would *never* have been passed, because everyone knows that enabling technology in iteslf does not result in lawlessness SCO would have been out of business long ago because they have nothing to offer and are nothing but leeches anymore People wouldn't have the government confiscating their property because of what they smoke ...and on and on and on. Every single example I used (and can think of) has one common thread: Greed. America: Land of the greedy, home of the kiss-ups.
EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired) Posted Jun 30, 2004 19:37 UTC (Wed) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link] Meanwhile Asia, Europe, and the rest of the world roll on and over U.S. markets because they happen to be producing ¨real¨ products?! At least in Europe the politicians are dumb/greedy/whatever enough to
follow the US with this type of laws:
EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired) Posted Jun 30, 2004 21:30 UTC (Wed) by verzonnen (guest, #9406) [Link] Userfriendly has last week managed to show the current status of patents (in general) rather nicly.http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040624 One thing to consider is what is a government going to do for the owners of software patents if they are to be revoked, no matter how stupid those patents might be in the first place. It will be a courages (US) government who revokes them, since they can kiss the campaign contributions goodbye, unless they refund any so called losses. So my guess is that whatever happens, it will be the ordinairy citizen who will foot the bill....
EFF Publishes Patent Hit List (Wired) Posted Jul 1, 2004 13:52 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] No, the US Government won't revoke any patents. From long experience, I have come to realize that there is no connection between U.S. Government policy and morality, except one:These people will *never* admit they were wrong, about *anything.* They will leave the most obnoxious, ridiculous, or stupid laws on the books forever, until interest in them withers away, rather than admin they made a mistake. Meanwhile, the "average citizen" will continue to live life as they often must, or will, with almost total disdain and disregard for all but the laws that interest or favor them. I happen to live in a state where the law has decided to "crack down" on intoxicated motorists. Here's what good it's doing: No drunks could care less about it. Most of those who get caught act as if they are being put upon. Many just continue to drive without licenses, if they are suspended. The few people who wind up with citations because of some unfortunate situation (accidental prescription drug overdose, mismanaged care from a doctor,) and try hard to show the state gov't that they are good people, wind up getting bilked for thousands of dollars, with no recourse against the doctors, the insurance companies, or the auto companies that brought their situations about. And you can bet your bottom dollar on this: if any U. S. government acts as if they are going to fix any of this, they will apply the fix in the narrowest possible way, so as not to affect the rich people who put that government there in the first place.
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