Dec
31
RIAA: “You’re a thief!”
December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The good news is that the RIAA’s relentless drive to sue the people who buy music has reached the point of utter rediculousness. The bad news is that it could wind up being a royal pain for a lot of people before it finally blows up in the RIAA’s collective faces.
The RIAA has now said, […]
Jun
27
It’s so non-obvious, everyone did it!
June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I wrote a while back about Geomas, and the patent they acquired for local search. Even though US patent criteria require the invention to be non-obvious to be eligible for patent protection. That claim was pretty specious in 1999 when the Geomas patent was issued.
It was even MORE non-obvious when ANOTHER patent was issued for […]
Jun
13
What do you get when you combine a patent office that doesn’t understand technology, entrepreneurs who will do anything for a buck, the U.S. love for “jackpot justice,” and venture capitalists looking for a quick return on investment?
Geomas.
UK-based Geomas acquired a patent that was issued in 1999 for location based searching. In other words, restrict […]
May
11
“Buy and Desist” Orders?
May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I thought the stupidest use of the DMCA to date, was the NFL’s attempt to trademark the phrase, “The Big Game.” But the NFL has lost that title now.
Media Rights Technology, and their subsidiary, BlueBeat.com, have a technology they claim will prevent the analog output from iTunes and other media software, from being recaptured into […]
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