- Apple v. Samsung
- There are many interesting discussions regarding Apple’s $1b patent verdict against Samsung.
- My former professor Randy Picker (UChicago) writes that this is exactly what patents are good for — “vindicating the market power that the patent system makes available to successful inventions.”
- Joff Wild (editor of IAM) writes that the decision may again boost patent prices and help Kodak, RIM and Nokia.
- Longtime patent critic Josh Lerner (Harvard) identifies the buying and selling of patents as a “distortion of the role of patents.”
- Today’s NYTimes notes that the verdict punishing copying may spur innovation by “give[ing Apple’s] rivals a kick in the pants to create more original products.”
- India: SpicyIP writes that Thompson/Westlaw has been ordered by an Indian to stop distributing copies of Indian Supreme Court Cases that it allegedly copied from the Eastern Book Company reporter.
- Internet Safe Harbor: The EFF (with Craig Newmark) have created an interesting infographic of the importance of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. That provision offers a broad safe harbor to internet service providers (including website distributors) against liability created by third-party activity (such as blog comments). Facebook would not exist without this provision (or something similar).
“Joff Wild (editor of IAM) writes that the decision may again boost patent prices and help Kodak, RIM and Nokia.”
Has anyone here ever tried to sell his/her tech patent via e.g. ICAP Patent Auction ?
Good luck :):):)
Next question: Does this really mean that patents listed by ICAP are somehow inferior to patents litigated in latest mega-trials between tech corporate mostrosities
(Hint: NO !!!!!!!!)
God bless this country of double standards
Josh wrote:
“In this industry, patents are not a clean weapon to stop others,” Mr. Rivette said. “The technology, like water, will find its way around impediments.”
It would seem that Josh is pro-patent, but needs to take some basic courses in product development to understand that he is pro-patent. He may need to have his nose pushed into the dictionary as well to force him to read the definition of incentive.
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