https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=70117 2008-11-21T09:11:51Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=70117 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > techie > software patents 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=70119 http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/07/23/a-firm-tries-to-patent-online-wish-lists-in-europe-shall-we-stop-them/ 2008-11-21T09:11:51Z 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=70118 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4790485.stm 2008-11-21T09:11:33Z 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 ... One reason https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=70116 http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-05-26-004-04-OP-LF 2008-11-21T09:07:38Z