Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 23, 2006 at 2:35:34 PM
Inventor of the CCD doesn't own a digicam.
Final Blackberry case to be heard tomorrow. Shut them down, get people off the crackberry.
There is nothing funny about this type of patent system. Something as trivial as email push was patented, this is unacceptable and patents such as these stifle innovation. That and IP regulation.
Another software patent that stifles innovation. This company was awarded a pantent for rich media online (ie: HTML+AJAX).
There is so much prior art it is stupid. I feel pretty bad when I need to report on patent issues and IP issues all the time.
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Boyle and George Smith will share the $500,000 US award for the invention of the "Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies," the U.S. National Academy of Engineering said. ... Boyle is now 81 and lives in Halifax. He doesn't own a digital camera, saying things have gotten too complicated.
Final Blackberry case to be heard tomorrow. Shut them down, get people off the crackberry.
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Tongue-in-cheek poetry aside, to millions of BlackBerry users, there's nothing funny about Friday's court hearing, which could draw to an end one aspect of the long-running patent spat between Ontario-based Research In Motion and Virginia-based patent-holding firm NTP. At the hearing in U.S. District Judge James Spencer's Richmond, Va., courtroom, lawyers for NTP, RIM and the federal government will argue over whether to issue an injunction on the sale and support of the wireless devices on American turf, as well as the amount of damages due to NTP from RIM.
There is nothing funny about this type of patent system. Something as trivial as email push was patented, this is unacceptable and patents such as these stifle innovation. That and IP regulation.
Another software patent that stifles innovation. This company was awarded a pantent for rich media online (ie: HTML+AJAX).
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"The patent covers all rich-media technology implementations including Flash, Flex, Java, AJAX and XAML and all device footprints which access rich-media Internet applications including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes and video game consoles," Balthaser added. "Balthaser will be able to provide licenses for almost any rich-media Internet application across a broad range of devices and networks."
There is so much prior art it is stupid. I feel pretty bad when I need to report on patent issues and IP issues all the time.