intellectual property

Death of SOPA may be only big victory for individual rights online in 2012

Posted January 16, 2012 - 2:38 pm

SOPA's assumption of guilt provisions were outrageously unconstitutional, but didn't emerge from a vacuum. In 2012 it seems as if cops, marketers, social networkers, service providers or anyone else with a use for private data claims the right to take it, or just the ability.
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Are Twitter followers fans or property? Who owns your Twitter account?

Posted December 27, 2011 - 3:38 pm

PhoneDog.com is suing a former employee who built a list of 17,000 followers on Twitter with his comments and reviews before moving on after four years. PhoneDog said the followers are a valuable customer list and the former employee owes it $340,000. Do you feel like an asset?
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Think patent lawsuits are tough? Try selling a T-shirt with 'Hells Angels' on the front

Posted August 26, 2011 - 3:57 pm

Hells Angels have a rep for protecting the territory they can ride over; they don't like copyright infringers. And they're as litigious as, well, hell.
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Court may force Apple to show Samsung the next version of iPad and iPhone

Posted May 30, 2011 - 12:02 pm

As IP lawsuits proliferate in the churn of the mobile market, end-user companies may get pulled in to suits and business arrangements they might not have agreed to otherwise.
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CPTN Holdings still alive and well

Posted January 11, 2011 - 4:05 pm

In a seeming reversal, the holding consortium formed by Apple, EMC, Microsoft, and Oracle, known as CPTN Holdings, LLC, withdrew its application from the German Federal Cartel Office, leaving many hoping if this was a sign of the end of a patent deal that has sent shock waves through the open source community. This was not what happened.
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When trouble strikes, who speaks for open source?

Posted January 7, 2011 - 11:45 am

For the record, I'm not terribly happy about the patent purchase agreement that's running in parallel to the Novell-Attachmate acquisition deal. The thought of 882 Novell patents getting sold to CPTN Holdings, LLC (a holding consortium made up of Apple, EMC, Microsoft, and Oracle America) does not sit well with me.
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A Schizophrenic Look at Microsoft, Novell, and Patents

Posted November 29, 2010 - 11:42 pm

Microsoft's role in snapping up the 882 Novell patents for $450 million makes no difference in how Microsoft regards open source and how open source regards Microsoft. Not one bit of difference at all.
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Oracle, SAP suit goes to jury with no one's dignity intact

Posted November 23, 2010 - 11:42 am

From Ellison's pre-trial rants to former SAP CEO Apotheker's runner to avoid subpoenas, Oracle/SAP trial showed the worst of internecine software wars.
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Patent Skirmishes Shed Light on Apple-HTC Suit

Posted March 10, 2010 - 2:45 pm

Former Sun CEO has revealed some interesting anecdotes about intellectual property scuffles with Apple and Microsoft. Which may tell us what's going to happen next with Apple v. HTC.
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Red Hat Extends Open Source Conversation Beyond Technology

Posted January 26, 2010 - 6:20 pm

I know what you're thinking, because I thought the same thing when I read the news on the wire. Opensource.com? Really?
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