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Comment on Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and Actual Usefulness by Jeremy Costin's weblawg.net Patent Assignment: Distinguishing Trolls from Legitimate Assignees, Part 1

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:18:25 +0000

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Comment on IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model by Ben Gornall

Ben Gornall — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:43:14 +0000

I’m going to play devils advocate here and say you’re being a little too harsh on Intellectual Ventures. They are a natural evolutionary by-product of a system that intentionally creates artificial monopoly rights so as “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. Now its hard to deny that in and of themselves monopolies are bad things for competitors, customers, and virtually everyone except the monopoly holder. But they are tolerated because the incentive to innovate that they provide is thought by policy makers to outweigh the negative aspects of monopolies. This is so because in the long run slightly higher rates of innovation benefit society immensely. Now if you all of a sudden say to inventors you can no longer sell your patent to a so-called troll firm because troll firms don’t do anything and are evil, then inventors have less incentive to invent because the market value of their patents has taken a major hit. And that shows what purpose troll firms serve : they bolster that paramount incentive to invent and disclose new, useful, and non-obvious technologies in the first place.

Comment on Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era by Nimda Sys

Nimda Sys — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:40:08 +0000

WordPress can be secured very well.

Comment on Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era by Francina Kocaj

Francina Kocaj — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:21:17 +0000

Hey there! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website? I’m getting sick and tired of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be awesome if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.

Comment on IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model by David T Michaels

David T Michaels — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:49:05 +0000

Most inventors can not commercialize their inventions, even if an angel gives them millions of dollars to get started. Infringers should view inventors as their R&D department and offer to pay royalties in advance of any lawsuit. Since most established businesses have given inventors short shrift over the past 15 years, it was foreseeable that VCs would eventually scoop up patents and go after infringers.

Comment on Music for a Pound, or a Pound of Flesh? by Andrew Murdoch

Andrew Murdoch — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:25:39 +0000

This article partly sums up my own thoughts on it. It’s just odd that someone like Gene Simmons, who put the name of KISS on everything he could sell, hasn’t figured out that he was actually ahead of his time. Music is no longer the product. Music is advertising. The products are live performances, t-shirts, and, if you’re lucky, the odd CD with a nice liner booklet and photography.

Comment on Lawyers and iPhones (and iPads) Shouldn’t Mix by Bernie

Bernie — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:02:41 +0000

The electronic device is best used as a portal and not a storage device, store on remote secure media and do not cache content locally….easy to say a pain in reality

Comment on Research in Motion’s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom by Jeremy Costin

Jeremy Costin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:51:07 +0000

1 – With respect to the claims that these countries are asking to crack RIM’s encryption to prevent terrorism, do you honestly believe that Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia are trying to prevent terrorism by cracking Blackberries? Having never shown any inclination to prevent terrorism in the past – Saudi Arabia famously funds terrorist groups – I seriously doubt that they’re turning over new leaves of responsible global citizenship, starting with snooping on Blackberry users, and only in those countries, and only as terrorism counter-measures.

2 – Do I think people will stop using Blackberries if the encryption is revealed? Yes. Those who depend on critical levels of confidentiality – the vast majority of whom for legitimate reasons – will second guess their heretofore first choice of mobile data device. Lawyers are sworn to a level of confidentiality so high that their conversations and notes with clients are protected by solicitor-client privilege, which unlike doctor-patient and other forms of privilege, cannot be subpoenaed. It can only be broken by a court order and only in limited very specific situations. That’s why firms use Blackberry and not iPhones on their data networks – reliability and security that protect freedom.

Comment on Research in Motion’s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom by Alexander Finger

Alexander Finger — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:09:10 +0000

“The better route for BlackBerry is to work with these governments to reshape their privacy policies in favour of citizen rights”

Why should they? Will a significant number of customers stop to use the service and the devices because RIM “supports law enforcement agencies in their duty to prevent crime and terrorism” (as I would put it). I doubt so.

Comment on Research in Motion’s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom by Fran

Fran — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:18:10 +0000

Prolifically written Jeremy and well documented with ultimately the positivity of these iPhone in our day to day lives to be our ultimate concern…It’s been awhile since I’ve read one of your posts and I am respectful of your opinion in these matters.

Your knowledge and wisdom is evident in this blog that you have incorporated your legal studies in your blogs…