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USA patent no. 6,199,048 (NeoMedia) is weak and harmful to our industry (Part 1)

As (mobile) technologists we must be aware of and recognize the potential for harm when obvious/weak-patents are granted by the Patent Office. We should be able to trust the patent system, but the system is weak. In particular I am here writing about…

The End of Software Patents?

This is big. This very much could mean the end of software patents… See the article The Death of Google’s Patents (Patent Law Blog). From the Patent Law Blog article: If the PTO’s test is followed, the crucial question for the vitality of…

On Intellectual Property: obviousness-by-combination

New IP could be based on other's prio-art; this actually occurs often. Below is the Forgent v. EchoStar Jury Instructions on Obviousness: “One way to decide whether one of ordinary skill in the art would combine what is described in various items of…