An inspiring account—he fought back and won.
http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html
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How I beat a patent troll (video by Drew Curtis on TED.com; 2012)
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Episode 412: How To Fix The Patent Mess : Planet Money : NPR
Two big patent cases this summer in the smartphone industry:
A jury finds that Samsung violated Apple’s patents, and orders Samsung to pay Apple $1 billion.
A judge throws out a case between Apple and Motorola (now owned by Google). The judge goes on to write an article in the Atlantic arguing that there are too many patents in America, and lots of industries could probably get along fine with no patents at all.
These radically different rulings were just the latest reminder that the world of software patents is a mess. Big companies that should be focused on inventing the next great thing are instead spending billions of dollars buying up patents and suing each other. Small companies have to worry that someone with some random patent is going to sue them and shut them down.
On today’s show, we talk with Mark Lemley, who has some ideas for fixing the patent mess. Lemley is a professor at Stanford law school and an expert on software patents. Lemley also works for clients in the private sector, including Google.
For More: See When Patents Attack, our big patent story from last year, and The Case Against Patents, a paper by the St. Louis Fed.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/10/23/163480928/episode-412-how-to-fix-the-patent-mess
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This American Life - 441: When Patents Attack!
Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.
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ACT ONE: There’s a derogatory term in Silicon Valley for companies that amass huge troves of patents and make money by threatening lawsuits: "patent trolls." When Jeff Kelling’s Internet company Fototime was sued - along with more than 130 other companies - for violating someone’s patent, he wondered if it was a troll (which the company denies), and then settled out of court.
ACT TWO NPR reporter Laura Sydell and This American Life producer/Planet Money co-host Alex Blumberg tell the story of Intellectual Ventures, which is accused of being the largest of the patent trolls. The investigation takes them to a small town in Texas, where they find a hallway full of empty companies with no employees. (29 minutes)business • legal system
ACT THREE Laura and Alex continue their story about Intellectual Ventures and the practice of patent trolling. They learn why the buying and selling of patents is likely to continue being a huge, controversial business that affects the entire tech industry. (23 minutes) Correction: The broadcast version of this story misidentified one of the winning bidders of Nortel’s patents as Nokia instead of Ericsson.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
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The Impromptu: Not Too Many People Died
John Siracusa and Adam discuss patent radicalism, Wikipedia’s absent radicals and the direction of incremental change at Apple and Amazon.
http://theimpromptu.net/2012/09/s8-not-too-many-people-died/
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Jury To Decide Apple’s Patent Case Against Samsung : NPR
In one of the biggest patent infringement cases ever, Apple is suing Samsung for as much as $2.75 billion â charging that in creating its products, Samsung ripped off iPhone and iPad technology. Samsung countered with its own allegations.
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/22/159679099/jury-to-decide-apple-s-patent-case-against-samsung
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Christopher Sprigman on creativity without copyright
Christopher Sprigman, professor of law at the University of Virginia discusses his forthcoming book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation sparks Innovation, co-authored with Kal Raustiala. The book is an accessible look at how industries that are not generally protected
http://surprisinglyfree.com/2012/07/17/christopher-sprigman/
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Gillmor Gang 8.6.11
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 5, 2011.
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Stuff You Should Know
How Gene Patents Work — Should a company be able to own the rights to something found inside your own body? In this episode, Chuck and Josh delve into the complicated, controversial world of gene patents. Tune in to learn more about the history — and future — of gene patents.
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RadioWest 10/3/11: When Patents Attack!
A new cold war is raging in America. Patents are the weapons and "trolls" are the soldiers as tech and software companies battle for market supremacy. That’s according to an investigation by NPR Planet Money cohorts Laura Sydell and Alex Blumberg. They join Doug on Monday to talk about the billionaire-backed company that’s one of the most intimidating patent trolls out there, the battleground town of 24,000 people in East Texas and how patents became the tech industry equivalent of a broadsword.
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Surprisingly Free
Tim Lee on patent reform — Timothy B. Lee, adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, a contributor to Ars Technica, and blogger at Forbes.com, discusses the recent patent wars and the prospects for reform. Over the last two decades, large software companies like Microsoft and Apple began acquiring a significant number of patents, gaining the power to shut down or demand payment from any software company that might inadvertently infringe those patents. Lee talks about Google’s entry into the patent game, particularly with the acquisition of Motorola. He also discusses the theory behind these patent wars and how the use of patents have been altered from incentives for innovation to a litigation shield. Finally, Lee talks about different proposals for patent reform, including a first to file scheme that is part of the America Invents Act.
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