Patents: it just gets better and better.
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| tracyanne Aug 27, 2010 11:54 PM EDT |
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| gus3 Aug 28, 2010 12:03 AM EDT |
Pamela Jones raises an interesting point: What real gain can Paul Allen get from this suit, that he doesn't already have? |
| tuxchick Aug 28, 2010 12:31 AM EDT |
Well gus3, a few billion in the bank don't go as far as they used to. You never know, even a man like Paul Allen could wake up tomorrow and find out he's only obscenely rich, instead of richer than god. And then what's he going to do? So you see, he is practically forced to become a patent troll to keep bread on his table. |
| TxtEdMacs Aug 28, 2010 1:52 PM EDT |
gus, When you are rich, even small flows of cash are still welcome. Note he needed public financing for his stadium to exhibit his team. So to make such beneficent endeavors fully visible to the undeserving public he justs bleeds cash from here and there. Makes sense. Just think of the side effects, e.g. he can sell the formerly deflated stocks as he dumps them at a profit, because they have risen due to their seeming immunity to his suits. Furthermore, he can buy in on those other stocks cheaper while they are temporarily depressed, despite their brighter future. For him the legal costs are a pittance. Moreover, they can be written off as a business expense, since he is doing no more than protecting the interests of his share holders that includes himself and a select coterie of friends. Ah, the Good life. YBT |
| jackd2 Aug 28, 2010 1:57 PM EDT |
Quoting:What real gain can Paul Allen get from this suit, that he doesn't already have? Maybe he actually beleives that he's right. |
| gus3 Aug 28, 2010 2:38 PM EDT |
No, Paul Allen knows better. There was a time when programmers understood a computer is nothing more than a glorified calculator, that all programs are reducible to mathematical formulas, and the formulas are not patentable. Paul Allen's involvement with Micro-Soft was near the end of that time. He is now merely gaming a system that so ignorantly opened a door of opportunity to beat down anyone who might have a good idea. Who might pursue that idea well enough to challenge his 37th-richest-in-the-world rank. I'd say more, but the TOS forbids it. |
| Bob_Robertson Aug 28, 2010 5:34 PM EDT |
> He is now merely gaming a system that so ignorantly opened a door of opportunity to beat down anyone who might have a good idea. And quickly, before the next election cycle, when Congress might change the law. |
| tuxchick Aug 29, 2010 1:40 PM EDT |
Patents from a company that's been dead since 2000...Troll troll troll. Oh, and troll. |
| g3mini Aug 29, 2010 4:48 PM EDT |
jackd2 Maybe he actually beleives that he's right. Very funny. Those patents wouldn't impress the neighbor's dog. This is classic patent trolling if there ever was such a thing. Of course, Allen probably sees it as business as usual. This is what you do with a patent portfolio, if you have one and are not protecting your own products with it. |
| tracyanne Aug 29, 2010 5:08 PM EDT |
I had a look at the Claim part of the patent. I'm still not sure what the actual technology is they claim. |
| hkwint Aug 29, 2010 7:18 PM EDT |
Quoting:What real gain can Paul Allen get from this suite Bill Gates made them billionaires sign the thingie saying they have to give to charity. So, if you're going to give to charity, then why not collect it from Google? |
| jacog Aug 30, 2010 3:50 AM EDT |
Quoting: * No. 6,757,682, "Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest."So he invented popups, banners, bold text, captions(fear the lolcat revolt), dancing badgers, those stick-on monitor frames that make your monitor look like a fish tank or summat, the PC speaker. Heck, he even invented your finger- just pointing at your screen could land you in court. |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 30, 2010 4:24 AM EDT |
Did he also invert the marqee and blink HTML tags? If so, take him out back and shoot him. Do the world a favour. |
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