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MS Patent Problem

By heimdal31, Section Diary
Posted on Thu Jul 14th, 2005 at 15:40:12 EST

I don't have time to write the article(s) I'd like with this information, but I provide a number of links to stories showing MS's patent infringements.

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CMS Heavy

By heimdal31, Section Diary
Posted on Tue Jul 12th, 2005 at 20:36:17 EST

As a followup to Sunny's CMS-Lite diary entry, I'm trying to set up a more robust CMS for work. I'm hoping I can get some pointers.

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Jonathan Cohen

By heimdal31, Section Diary
Posted on Wed Mar 16th, 2005 at 12:26:45 EST

Ever since SCOForum 2003, when SCO's "evidence" was shown to be junk within 24 hours but SCO's shareprice soared, I've had a page up on my site about Jonathan Cohen.

Stats_for_all has been continuing to dig into Cohen shenanigans. He posted something yesterday which just amply demonstrated the type of egregious actions that so typified the dot-com era, that I've put up a new page on Jonathan Cohen and JHC Capital.

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Prior Art Only Real if Written

By heimdal31, Section Diary
Posted on Thu Mar 10th, 2005 at 10:43:15 EST

Just ran across this BBC article on an overturned patent while reading Bruce Peren's technocrat.net

It seems that the US Agriculture Department and WR Grace had patented in Europe an extract from an Indian tree for insecticide use. However, "the fungicide qualities of the neem tree and its use had been known in India for over 2,000 years." The article also includes this gem:

But in the United States, "prior existing knowledge" is only recognised if it is published in a journal - not if it has been passed down through generations of oral and folk traditions.

Our patent system is so screwed.

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Perens says a Patent Suit is in the Works

By heimdal31, Section Diary
Posted on Mon Feb 21st, 2005 at 17:29:33 EST

Open source expert Bruce Perens, author of 15 books on the subject, said at a LinuxWorld news conference he was recently recruited as an expert witness for what was described as "the defining Linux patent infringement case" (he was later rejected because of conflicts of interest).

The above is a quote in a recent Australian ComputerWorld overview of LinuxWorld It is the only mention I've seen anywhere, but I would expect that there will be more details coming out soon.

I would imagine that he is under some type of NDA and can't say very much. In fact, I'm glad that he felt he could mention it at all. If someone is shopping for expert witnesses now, when do you think a suit will be filed?

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