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- Patent Suit Day Continues: Microsoft Takes Fight With i4i Over XML To The Supreme Court
- Ben Huh Asks: "I Can Haz Reddit?" (Offers To Buy It From Condé Nast)
- Bit.ly Clickabit, Now. Bit.ly Now, Later?
- A Method For Encumbering Progress By Patenting Other People's Ideas
| Patent Suit Day Continues: Microsoft Takes Fight With i4i Over XML To The Supreme Court | Top |
| While not the biggest Microsoft-related lawsuit news of the day, Microsoft just announced that it wants to take its patent infringement case against Canadian technology firm i4i to the highest level, seeking review by the US Supreme Court. Last May, a federal court of appeals upheld the decision of a lower court that Microsoft had in fact infringed i4i’s XML patent (’449) , by introducing Microsoft WORD in 2003 and continuing the XML editing capabilities through 2007. Microsoft was ordered to pay i4i $290 million dollars in fees and change the disputed version of Word. i4i CEO Loudon Owen responded to Microsoft’s petition for a writ of certiorari , "This next step of filing a petition was anticipated — indeed, proclaimed for months by Microsoft. We continue to be confident that i4i will prevail.” The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether it will review the case. View this document on Scribd CrunchBase Information Microsoft Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Ben Huh Asks: "I Can Haz Reddit?" (Offers To Buy It From Condé Nast) | Top |
| It’s no secret that social link sharing community Reddit isn’t singing the praises of its corporate parent Condé Nast, which acquired the company in 2006. Earlier today the two sparred over running ads in support of California’s Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana in the state. And Reddit has previously written about the shortage of resources that Condé Nast is willing to provide. Now Ben Huh, founder and CEO of the Cheezburger network , is offering to take Reddit off Condé’s hands. In a letter published by The Daily What (a part of the Cheezburger network), Huh writes that he’s offered to buy Reddit before privately, and he’s now making it public. From the post: Condé Nast, I'm publicly offering to buy Reddit. Hi TDWers, I'm Ben Huh, and I run the Cheezburger Network (which includes The Daily What, if you were too Prop 19'd to notice). I have made this offer privately to a few people associated with Reddit, and I'll say it publicly now: I believe that Reddit is one of the best communities I have seen on the Internet. I also believe that Reddit would benefit from more resources and less corporate interference. We can offer all of the above. And we'd love to buy Reddit and all those pesky troublesome users that we love so much. Condé, we'll be waiting for a call. Cheers, Ben Huh. Update : Reached for comment, Huh said that he’s “totally serious about buying Reddit” and that he thinks Reddit “would do better under a strange and weird start-up like us, rather than a corporate giant like Conde Nast.” | |
| Bit.ly Clickabit, Now. Bit.ly Now, Later? | Top |
| Today on their blog, URL shortening service Bit.ly unveiled a cute new feature: Clickabit . It’s a Twitter account that surfaces some of the “ surprising and bizarre ” links being shortened and shared across their network. But the feature also hints at something we’ve been talking about for a while: Bit.ly Now. “ We're currently hard at work on several systems that will expose some of the interesting data we're playing with. In the meantime, we'd like to introduce @clickabit ,” Bit.ly writes in the post. They key part is obviously the first half. We’ve known for a while that Bit.ly has been planning some sort of service to expose the best links being shared across the web — kind of like Tweetmeme or Digg. But Bit.ly links are shared on email and Facebook too; it would be about more than Twitter. Actually, Bit.ly Now has existed for sometime — on Twitter . But today, Bit.ly switched that account over to be the Clickabit one (the old tweets from 2009 when Bit.ly was using the account to surface popular Bit.ly links have been transfered over as well — and they have yet to change the bio from the Bit.ly Now one). They still control the @bitlynow account, and have switched the icon. The only tweet from the account now reads “ Follow the puffer fish to @ clickabit ! “ It would seem that they’re finally preparing to do something more with this account. Something like a system to “ expose some fo the interesting data we’ve playing with “, perhaps. It’s an interesting time in the popular link surfacing space. Tweetmeme is in the process of morphing into something else following Twitter’s launch of their own tweet button. Meanwhile, Digg has just launched the latest version of their site (version 4), in an attempt to try and recapture the link sharing crown. Then of course there’s Facebook. That Like button is everywhere. | |
| A Method For Encumbering Progress By Patenting Other People's Ideas | Top |
| Inventor : Paul Allen Filed : August 27, 2010 Abstract : A method for preventing innovation, specifically in the tech sector, by way of a dangerous misconception of what is patentable and a sadly overtaxed intellectual property regulatory system. Summary of the Invention : During a period of change and invention, ideas may occur to a person, and a few possible ways of manifesting those ideas. By instantly submitting a patent request, the person can secure as their own property not only the methods they have actually invented, but all possible derivatives and independent creations resembling said methods. After waiting a suitable period of time, during which the entire landscape of the industry may change, the patent holder then can exchange these patents for riches, while simultaneously nullifying the gains of a decentralized, idea-powered economy. Continue reading… | |
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