Tag Archives: Patents

Daily Links for Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Open Source Oracle gives open source a patent pass Computer Business Review Oracle has vowed not to assert its patents against open source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel and the MySQL and PosgreSQL databases by entering into … Continue reading

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Daily Links for Friday, October 23, 2009 – Early Edition

Software Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents BusinessWeek / Jack Ewing and Arik Hesseldahl The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing … Continue reading

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IBM’s patent announcement today

Today IBM announced that for the 16th year in a row, it received more US patents than any other company, The number for 2008 was also a record, 4186, for any company. Here are a couple of links to the … Continue reading

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IBM withdraws patent claim

My IBM colleagues in intellectual property asked me to post the following statement in order to get it out to as many people as quickly as possible: IBM has put into the public domain and withdrawn its application for patent … Continue reading

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links for 2007-06-28

Mitch Wagner: Relaunching Our Discussion Group In Second Life – Digital Life Blog – InformationWeek “I’m very pleased to report that we’re teaming up with one of the best virtual-worlds news blogs, Metaversed, to beef up our ongoing discussion group … Continue reading

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links for 2007-05-26

Linux Foundation Fires Back at Microsoft “If you earned $34 million a day from Windows and Office, you too would try to spook the market with patent threats” (tags: linux Microsoft patent) Game | Life – Wired Blogs – Are … Continue reading

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