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Global struggle over software patents
It is common currency in open source to say that patents are an American problem.That's not true. Software patents, or patents on what is expressed in software, are a global problem.(Picture from our Apple Core blog, co-starring Jason.
Read more...Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown? WTF! | Tech Drive-in
If you could just browse through the other patents Microsoft holds, you could see more interesting stuff like a patent on "Method for displaying progress during operating system startup and shutdown" among others. ...
Read more...Microsoft patents automatic computer-shut down - When your Apple ...
Software king of the world, Microsoft is so keen on its contribution to the computer industry that it wants to make sure that no one nicks the idea.Redmond has apparently gotten a patent for the automatic fast shut-down of a computer.
Read more...Quanta Computer V. LG Electronics: Reviving the? Exhaustion ...
Background LG Electronics (LGE) d? Holds the rights to several patents on computer technology, which d? Scribe operation of the computer or m? Method, not.
Read more...LANZen technology and strategy blog » The big idea: ban patents to ...
IP and patents. How many great things never get off the design paper? Far too many ideas get patented and never delivered as products. Maybe the inventor can't deliver, or the idea is bought to keep it hidden. Perhaps patents should be ...
Read more...LED iPod Touch with Video Cam & FaceTime Fulfills Major Patents ...
Apple's Special Music Event presented us with one of the largest caches of new iPod related products in a single event. Apple updated Apple TV with the A4 processor and the click-wheel returned to the iPod Shuffle.
Read more...Against Monopoly
Via Conceivably Tech, we learn that Microsoft was granted a patent for the shutdown procedure in Windows. If I understand it right, Microsoft is now the sole owner of the procedure asking whether you really want to close an application ...
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