IBM patents making money from patents
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Paging MC Escher... Sometime computer maker and intellectual property clearing house IBM has threatened the fabric of space-time by attempting to patent profiting from patents.â¦
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You back my patent, I'll back yours. That could be the software giant's motto in its quest for intellectual property.
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The chances of a user being sued for intellectual property (IP) infringement related to software usage are slim, industry observers say. But that may change, as some companies hoard patents for the express purpose of using them to extract money from sellers and users of software.
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Little-known company has come forward claiming rights to patents at the center of NTP's high-stakes suit against Research In Motion.
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The dangers of software patents for free software have always been a hot issue.  But with the news that Red Hat and Novell are being sued for alleged patent infringement by IP Innovation, the matter has moved from theory into practice.  In fact, in the battle against software patents, it turns out that the open source world already has a rather powerful weapon in its armoury â even if it's one that few people know about. read more
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How significant is the US Patent and Trademark Office&#39;s initial rejection of Microsoft&#39;s FAT (file allocation table) file system patent claims?
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The search giant's new tool lets budding inventors browse 200 years' worth of intellectual property on file with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In Monkey Bites.
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Google Inc. last week filed a patent for technology that would allow users to make payments using text messages or SMS.
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IBM will publish its patent applications online to share their details with the world and, perhaps, reduce the flood of patent infringement lawsuits.
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As blue chip companies in developed marketsÂ scramble to outsourceÂ high-cost jobs to low-cost countries, one of the world's biggest technology companies -- IBMÂ -- seems content to keep more than 1,800 highly trained, well-paid IT engineers at its R&D (research and development) lab in BÃ¶blingen, Germany.
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A company finds a sneaky new way to silence security researchers: Claim that defeating its products infringes on patents. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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IBM and the rest of the tech industry might have a better year than most onlookers expected. IBM's third-quarter earnings rose 15% from a year earlier, to &#36;1.17 a share, excluding a one-time &#36;320 million charge to settle a lawsuit over its pension plan. That beat analysts' average estimate by 3 cents a share.
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U.S. patent leader IBM said late on Monday it plans to donate 500 patents for free use by software developers, marking a major shift of intellectual property strategy for the world's top computer maker and a challenge to the high-tech industry.
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The patent is for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is distributed without DRM protection.
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To those that have, have some more IBM is reaching out to venture capitalists by offering technology and go-to-market help for software start-ups they back.â¦
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Big Blue's decision to open patents to public scrutiny could spur innovation.
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Will the company's next PC look like a Christmas tree? A patent filing sheds some light.