Radical Surgery to Fix Software Patents
I’m from the camp that says we’re way past the point of patents fostering innovation, if they ever did. It didn’t take me long reading Scoble’s post this morning about the value of WebOS’s patents to HP possibly making the unit a profitable venture to be reminded once again that while patents may be a [...]
Friday Rant: E-LYNNX — The E-Sourcing Patent Trolls Are Out Again
James Carville, Bill Clinton’s famous political consultant, once observed that Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. I can partially attest to this having lived in both cities and spent one year of m…
Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011
Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes [...]
What the next iPad will look like
I have been playing with my new MacBook Air 11” for a few hours now. I love every part of it, and there is not much I would like to change. Maybe shrinking the screen’s bezel and make it a 12” laptop without changing its outer dimensions. Or adding…
Software Patents Should Be Abolished
Still think patents are about protecting the little guy? The USPTO now takes an average of 6 years to grant a patent (hat tip to Techmeme). In the long run, you’ll likely get your patent since almost anything is patentable these days, however outlandish it may be. But in the long run, we’re all dead, [...]
Our “patently absurd” patent system
While my book is not specifically about patents, a book that focuses on innovation and grand challenges would be remiss to not point what a “grand challenge” it would be fix our patent system. Some excerpts about patents from The New Polymath The Wall Street Journal in an editorial summarized the mess the patent system [...]
The Problem with Software Patents
Software patents are a disaster for innovation. The system is asymmetrical, in the sense that it is very expensive to defend against a patent suit. At the same time, it is very easy to get a patent on almost anything, including things people have no business getting patents on. I have a friend who was [...]
