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Patent Assignment: Distinguishing Trolls from Legitimate Assignees, Part 2
My colleague, Ben Gornall, Patent and Trademark Consultant, has continued our earlier discussion. My initial post was “IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model“, to which Ben commented here. I replied with “Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and … Continue reading
Patent Assignment: Distinguishing Trolls from Legitimate Assignees, Part 1
My colleague, Ben Gornall, Patent and Trademark Consultant, has continued our earlier discussion. My initial post was “IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model“, to which Ben commented here. I replied with “Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and … Continue reading
Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and Actual Usefulness
How many of the would-be defendants simply negotiate the licence – not a one-time settlement but an ongoing licence (perhaps under duress?) – to avoid the more costly lawsuit, even though they have no intention of using the patented matter any further?
Here we come to the difference between potential usefulness, which speculation underlies the granting of the patent, and actual usefulness, evidence of which underlies the infringement lawsuit. Continue reading
RoB Magazine declares victory on the Smartphone Plains of Abraham
RoB Magazine has declared Apple the victor over Research in Motion in a presumed battle between Cupertino and Waterloo for the smartphone Plains of Abraham. … I understand that for an investor, the likely more profitable performer in the short term is an important determination; but to pronounce the industry a zero-sum game is foolish. That said, the author raises an important point that if followed in combination with RIM’s existing advantages could shoot it back up to leading Apple around a marketplace of its own design. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Communications, Information Technology
Tagged Apple, blackberry, Business, Communications, Information Technology, iPhone, Research in Motion, Torch
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Research in Motion’s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom
Several countries, none of which is a finalist in the Freedom to the People sweepstakes, are considering blackballing the BlackBerry for being too secure… The better route for BlackBerry is to work with these governments to reshape their privacy policies in favour of citizen rights. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Civil Liberties, Communications
Tagged blackberry, Business, Civil Liberties, Communications, encryption, Information Technology, Privacy
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The Speciation of Web Sites
I saw a headline the other day in someone else’s newspaper: Days of Static Website Over. Not that I was on the bus and read the headline from several yards away and didn’t read the article at all. My first … Continue reading
Technology (law) is everywhere!
At the firm where I’m working, I deal a lot with wills & estates, family law, and small business. “But wait!” you say. “Where’s the intellectual property and information technology?”
And I answer, “Everywhere.” Continue reading
Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era
I’m reading “Business @ the Speed of Thought,” by Bill Gates. (Chapters-Indigo Link Here) He wrote it ten years ago, which allows me the critical distance I prefer when reading a book that prognosticates. Say what you will about MS … Continue reading
Who carries your Web 2.0 banner?
What’s at stake when you let others step in your online footprint? Goodwill has to do with the perception of your enterprise, and liability has to do with getting into real legal trouble. How are they connected by this Web 2.0 stuff? … Being obnoxious, opinionated, or siding with one side of a contentious debate will not likely create more than a bad taste in the reader’s mouth. Being wrong, when you carry a banner of knowing better, can create a problem. Continue reading
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