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Another Day, Another Patent Troll
These days I’m regularly exposed to patent trolls. Sometimes I read about them, sometimes friends email me about them, and sometimes companies I’m an investor in gets sued by them.Whenever I read the...
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THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple Has A Lot Riding On The iPhone 4S Release In China...
The Apple Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email.AAPL Down As Intel Bombs Stocks are off to start the week as Intel cut guidance for the fourth quarter by $1 billion....
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I got this email this morning.Mark, I’ve been following blogmaverick.com for a loooong time. I’ve recently come up against a patent related issue and figured I give it a shot in running it by you...
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Patent Trolls Like Yahoo Will Ruin Silicon Valley, Says Yammer CEO
Yammer CEO David Sacks is really angry about Yahoo's patent suit against Facebook.Yesterday, he tweeted"Yammer will never hire another former Yahoo employee who doesn't leave in the next 60 days."We...
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THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Patents, Patents, Patents! Oracle And Now ... Lycos? (GOOG)
The Google Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by emailGOOG Off With Markets Factory orders on the rise, however less than expected, and the auto industry is looking to...
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Hot Travel Startup Hipmunk Goes After Company Demanding Patent Payout
Startup Hipmunk is taking legal action against i2z Technology over a patent dispute.The patent in question, No. 5,345,551, is one that allows for content to be displayed on numerous windows.Hipmunk is...
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This Lone Inventor Claims Facebook, LinkedIn, And Amazon Stole His Patent
A Tennessee company that apparently exists just to file lawsuits claims Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIninfringed its patents for targeted banner ads.B.E. Technology, founded by Martin David Hoyle of...
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Apple's New iPhone Could Put It At The Center Of A 'Thermonuclear' Patent War
Steve Jobs once said to his biographer, "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product."He was so livid at Google he said he'd go to "thermonuclear war" over patents, Above the Law has...
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In Defense Of The Dreaded 'Patent Troll'
So-called patent trolls have a bad reputation.Alleged trolls, more politely called non-practicing entities (NPEs), make most of their money from licensing patents or suing companies or both.NPEs might...
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Almost Every Single Major Tech Company Came Together To Pay $525 Million For...
Kodak sold patents for $525 million to two patent firms, Intellectual Ventures and RPX.Those firms, according to release, are organizing 12 patent licensees to pay the $525 million.And who are those...
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Why East Texas Is Still The Sweetest Destination For 'Patent Trolls'
The federal court in East Texas is known as the "rocket docket" for patent litigation.Companies that exist primarily to file patent lawsuits – derided as "patent trolls"– flock there to sue other...
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ACTIVISTS: A 'Patent Troll' Is Trying To Destroy All Podcasts
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties group, is declaring war on a company claiming it made the podcast possible.EFF said Tuesday it was organizing companies that face threats...
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Obama Calls Patent Trolls Extortionists Who 'Hijack' People's Ideas
At a Google+ fireside "hangout" on Thursday, President Obama fielded questions about baby names and Valentine's Day.Obama also tackled an issue that's of interest to tech startups: patent trolls.An...
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Google Says 'Asymmetric Warfare' Against 'Trolls' Costs $30 Billion A Year...
Google— along with Blackberry and other tech companies — has asked the FTC to pay greater attention to patent trolls, who embroil companies in expensive litigation over bogus claims on the ownership of...
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11 Galling Stats About Patent Trolls That Will Make You Wonder Why America...
Earlier today, the White House announced an executive order that will strike back against patent trolls. From the White House press release, here's a basic description of what a patent troll...
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Two Charts That Show How Parasitic Patent Trolls Are Sucking More And More...
Earlier today the White House announced that they were taking a new, aggressive policy against patent trolls. Here's a White House summary of the modus operandi of patent trolls:Innovators continue to...
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'Patent Trolls' Are Just One Symptom Of An Entirely Screwed Up Patent System
The latest episode of the NPR radio show This American Life addresses the question of patent trolls by following up an episode from two years ago, focusing on the efforts by Nathan Myhrvold's company...
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Boston University Accuses Apple Of Ripping Off A Professor's Patented Technology
Boston University filed a "bombshell" lawsuit yesterday against Apple yesterday, The Boston Herald reports. BU claims that the electronics powerhouse ripped off a patented piece of tech for use in...
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A New England Attorney General Is Trolling A 'Patent Troll'
The federal and state governments are all invested in trying to curb patent trolling activities and for the first time, an attorney general (AG) has attempted to sue an alleged patent troll under the...
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A Startup Founder Whose Company Sold To Google For Billions Of Dollars Is...
Kevin O’ Connor, the founder of DoubleClick, which sold to Google for $3.1 billion, is putting that money to use.Since leaving DoubleClick, O’Connor founded a startup called FindTheBest. FindTheBest...
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