Company looks to sell or license online-ad patents
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After a year and a half of investigation, a Georgia technology vendor feels sufficiently comfortable with the defensibility of three of its patents related to online advertising that it's prepared to sell or license them -- or to pursue infringements. Letters have already gone out to Microsoft and Google.
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EBayÂ is on a drive to put its brand everywhere people experience the Internet, and it wants outside Web developers to help get it there.
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Company hopes to attract users who will later upgrade to its small business software.
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Businesses and developers can work with the rival to Google's ad programs on a free or subscription basis.
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Online giant adds local search advertising model that holds promise for small business.
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A group of technology companies is offering to share some of its patents to encourage the development of environmentally friendly technologies.
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Google has an idea so novel that it should patent it.
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The American Medical Association is working with a startup company that encourages doctors to swap ideas online and charges investment firms to view postings that could serve as tip-offs to drug side effects and other market-moving medical trends.
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A patent application turned up by the Associated Press reveals that IBM has proposed an electronic trading system that would enable a new kind of derivatives market for intellectual property. In this market, traders would buy and sell "floating" rights to chunks of a company's IP portfolio, thus becoming not only the recipient of royalties from that portfolio, but the designated defender of those IP rights in court, for a limited period of time.
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Server and software company prepares new foray into market for dot-com infrastructure.
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Blog: Site aims to allow the online customer relationship management software maker to act as a reseller for Google's AdWords.
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Google Inc. is looking to buy a U.S. company whose technology inserts advertisements into videogames, a published report says.  The Internet-search and online-advertising company is in talks to buy Adscape Media Inc. of San Francisco, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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So you've decided to sell your small company. You figure that all you have to do is put an ad in a newspaper or trade publication and you'll have a buyer in no time.
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This patent, as well as others, could yield information about company's plans for a "Gphone."
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Google's AdSense is in the clear, but two patents related to the AutoLink piece of the Google toolbar are to be re-examined.
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As part of a series looking at Internet and intellectual property law, Deborah Wilcox, co-chair of a national intellectual property litigation practice, discusses changes in attitudes toward online intellectual property, the challenges courts face in litigating online IP and trademark cases, and consumer confusion over search ads.
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Companies have created partnership to offer carriers a search service they can brand themselves.