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BlogsTags > patentsPublishing News: Apple’s used iBookstore?By Jenn WebbMarch 8, 2013 Apple patent points to used digital resale Quick on Amazon’s heels, Apple has filed its own patent for selling or loaning used digital content, including ebooks, music, movies, and software applications. Mikey Campbell reported at Apple Insider that the patent, … Four short links: 23 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 23, 2012 Trap Island — island on most maps doesn’t exist. Why I Work on Non-Partisan Tech (MySociety) — excellent essay. Obama won using big technology, but imagine if that effort, money, and technique were used to make things that were useful … Publishing News: DoJ lawsuit is great news for AmazonBy Jenn WebbApril 13, 2012 Amazon does a happy dance as five of the Big Six publishers and Apple are sued by the DoJ. Elsewhere, Yahoo looks to increase revenues with ebook ads, and B&N lights up its Nook. Publishing News: DoJ lawsuit is great news for Amazon April 13, 2012 Amazon does a happy dance as five of the Big Six publishers and Apple are sued by the DoJ. Elsewhere, Yahoo looks to increase revenues with ebook ads, and B&N lights up its Nook. Four short links: 11 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 11, 2012 Inside Apple (Amazon) -- If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the "DRI" (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top... Developer Week in Review: The new iPad and the big meh 
By James TurnerMarch 8, 2012 Apple unveils pretty much what it was expected to unveil, and decides to treat Android as a cash cow rather than an enemy. Meanwhile, the Raspberry Pi is finally out, so let the hacking begin. Four short links: 14 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 14, 2012 Why I Hate The STOCK Act (Clay Johnson) -- an attempt to reform insider trading within government, but because Congress exempts itself from substantial penalties then it has little effect where it's needed most. We won't see change on the issues that matter to us (copyright, due process for Internet takedowns, privacy, etc.) while the lawmakers are distracted by... Joaquín Almunia gets it: "Owners of ... standard essential patents are conferred a power .. that they cannot be allowed to misuse. "
By Rick JelliffeFebruary 12, 2012 I think Almunia's speech does not go far enough: it still sees standardization as an escape hatch that a company that finds itself in a market dominating position can use when challenged. Jury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive web 
By Alex HowardFebruary 10, 2012 A Texas jury has struck down a company's claim to ownership of the interactive web. Eolas, which has been suing technology companies for more than a decade, now faces the prospect of losing the patents. Developer Week in Review: A pause to consider patents
By James TurnerFebruary 10, 2012 We take a look at two major events that rocked the technology intellectual property wars, centered on a courtroom in Texas and a standards body a continent away. Publishing News: Tech patent wars spill into the book worldNovember 18, 2011 B&N's position against Microsoft was made public, causing quite a dust-up. Also, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearing was as controversial as the Act itself, and the Authors Guild says the Kindle Owner's Lending Library breaches contracts. Publishing News: Tech patent wars spill into the book worldBy Jenn WebbNovember 18, 2011 B&N's position against Microsoft was made public, causing quite a dust-up. Also, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearing was as controversial as the Act itself, and the Authors Guild says the Kindle Owner's Lending Library breaches contracts. Four short links: 17 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 17, 2011 Questioning University -- my take on the issue of whether a university education (particularly CS) is still relevant or whether kids should go straight to startups. So what do I tell my kids? Should I urge them to go to university? Should I tell them to jack it all in and run off and join a startup? This is... Developer Week in Review: Linux turns the big 3.0
By James TurnerJuly 28, 2011 The Linux kernel gets to version 3.0. Meanwhile, Oracle doesn't seem to remember the warm reception that Sun gave Android, and big players get lawsuits on their doorsteps. Top stories: July 18-22, 2011 
By Mac SlocumJuly 22, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: We examined the deeper and broader implications of Google+, four solutions to the patent quagmire were offered up, and we learned about the "art of mass organizational manipulation." Developer Week in Review: Mobile's embedded irony
By James TurnerJuly 20, 2011 Microsoft profits from Google's toils, why you shouldn't put older developers out to pasture, and a new source control system enters the fray. Intellectual property gone mad July 18, 2011 Patent trolling could undermine app ecosystems, but who can mount a legitimate challenge? Here's four potential solutions. Developer Week in Review: Christmas in July for Apache
By James TurnerJuly 15, 2011 In the latest Developer Week in Review: Apache gets a gift of code from IBM, and a handy patent / travel guide for your next trip to East Texas. Four short links: 28 June 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJune 28, 2011 Networks Blocking Google TV -- the networks are carrying over their old distribution models: someone aggregates eyeballs and pays them for access. In their world view, Google TV is just another cable company. They're doubling down on this wholesale model, pulling out of Hulu and generally avoiding dealing with the people who ultimately watch their shows except through ad-filled... Developer Week in Review: Start your lawyers!
By James TurnerJune 22, 2011 The legal community continued to feed off IP disputes among software giants, Microsoft brings the Kinect SDK to Windows, and the web switches IPv6 on for a day, but did anyone notice? Developer Week in Review: The other shoe drops on iOS developers
By James TurnerJune 2, 2011 If you were an iOS developer, you may have gotten to meet a process server in person this week, as Lodsys doles out the first batch of lawsuits. Oracle gave Apache the keys to OpenOffice, and told them to take it out for a spin, and your faithful editor vents about a commonly overused Java pattern. Developer Week in Review: Apple devs cry "gimme shelter"
By James TurnerMay 25, 2011 If you were an Apple developer, it was a good week. If you were a Sony executive, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. If you were Oracle, it was business as usual. Four short links: 12 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 12, 2011 Telsta Scores Patent Win over Amazon (ZDNet) -- The delegate of the Commissioner of Patents, Ed Knock, found this week that Amazon's 1-click buy facility "lacks novelty [and] an inventive step", making Amazon's claim unpatentable. The Final Answer for What To Do To Prevent Piracy (Jeff Vogel) -- His advice is to do the minimum to encourage people to... Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerApril 22, 2011 In the latest Developer Week in Review: Everyone sued everyone else, the iPhone's location abilities instigated lots of discussion, and Oracle let Open Office fly away home. Four short links: 21 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 21, 2011 Rubular -- a way to write and test regular expressions interactively. Very cool. (via Adam Fields) gitx -- OSX ui for git. (via Marc Hedlund) Open Source Critical to Competition (Simon Phipps) -- DOJ and German Federal Cartel Office see danger for open source in Novell's patents being acquired by a consortium of Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, and EMC (fancy!)... The Watering Hole - Maybe it wouldn't be so good to have a Wayback MachineBy Randy SilvermanApril 13, 2011 Well, apparently, if modern technology existed in the 19th Century, rivals would be more polite to each other...at first. Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerApril 6, 2011 In the latest Developer Week in Review: Google tries to bulk up its patent portfolio, filmmakers are taking a look at the life of an early software pioneer, and researchers decided to turn an April Fool's joke into reality. Four short links: 23 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 23, 2011 The Heritage Health Competition -- Netflix-like contest to analyze insurance-claims data to develop a model that predicts the number of days a patient will spend in hospital in the coming year. $3M prize. (via Aza Raskin) Historically Hardcore -- fantastic fake Smithsonian ads that manage to make the institution sexy. Naturally they've been asked to take them down. Another... Developer Week in Review
By James TurnerJanuary 12, 2011 This week, Unix was for sale, then it wasn't, then it was again. AT&T announced the most poorly kept secret in the history of secrets. And the tablet was all the rage at CES. Four short links: 15 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 15, 2010 Privacy Commission Uses CC License For Content -- The office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner is releasing its content under the CC-BY license, including fact sheets, newsletters, guidance, case studies, howtos, and more. Magic iPad Light Painting (BERG London) -- continuing their stunning work, this concept video uses a form of long-exposure stop-motion to turn the iPad into... Four short links: 30 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 30, 2010 Free as in Smokescreen (Mike Shaver) -- H.264, one of the ways video can be delivered in HTML5, is covered by patents. This prevents Mozilla from shipping an H.264 player, which fragments web video. The MPEG LA group who manage the patents for H.264 did a great piece of PR bullshit, saying "this will be permanently royalty-free to consumers".... Four short links: 9 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 9, 2010 Maslow's Hierarchy of Robot Needs -- born to be a t-shirt. (via waxy) paper.li -- read Twitter as a daily newspaper. An odd mashup of the hot new tech and the failing old. Will newspapers live on with modern meanings, like "records" and "cab"? Eureqa -- software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Appears... Why software startups decide to patent ... or notBy Pamela SamuelsonJuly 21, 2010 Researchers Pamela Samuelson and Stuart J. H. Graham discuss key results from the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey, including how software startups perceive, use and are affected by the patent system. Of particular note, startups find that first-mover advantage and complementary assets are more important than patents. Land of long white cloud sees through the fog - An end to embedded software patents
By Rick JelliffeJuly 16, 2010 Dawn comes first in New Zealand! From the New Zealand governments Beehive.govt.nz website: Commerce Minister Simon Power has instructed the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) to develop guidelines to allow inventions that contain embedded software to be patented.... Four short links: 14 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 14, 2010 Flume -- Cloudera open source project to solve the problem of how to get data into cloud apps, from collection to processing to storage. Flume is a distributed service that makes it very easy to collect and aggregate your data into a persistent store such as HDFS. Flume can read data from almost any source - log files, Syslog... Four short links: 3 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 3, 2010 How to Get Customers Who Love You Even When You Screw Up -- a fantastic reminder of the power of Kathy Sierra's "I Rock" moments. In that moment I understood Tom's motivation: Tom was a hero. (via Hacker News) Yahoo! Mail is Open for Development -- you can write apps that sit in Yahoo! Mail, using and extending the... Four short links: 31 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 31, 2010 ZeroMQ -- bold claim of "Fastest. Messaging. Ever." LGPL, C++ with bindings for many languages, past version 2 already. (via edd on Twitter) Prediction Market News (David Pennock) -- HSX is going to be a real marketplace with real $. The real HSX will of course say goodbye to the virtual specialist and the opening weekend adjust, two facets... How do we measure innovation?
By Tim O'ReillyMarch 26, 2010 In response to the IEEE's report on Patent Power, which lists the top companies ranked by number of patents, Ari Shahdadi and Brad Burnham made trenchant comments in email that I thought were worth sharing (with their permission): Ari wrote: The main article is sad to read, with choice quotes like this: "Clearly, the global recession seriously hampered innovation in... China's proposed policy for mandatory standards: no patented technologies without RAND or RAND-RF? - Bloodsuckers and submarines
By Rick JelliffeMarch 15, 2010 China's national standards body CNIS has a draft document out Guide for the Implementation of the Inclusion of Patents in National Standards. (For an English translation see the first column of this.) Wang Yiyi's China's Approach to Standards-related Intellectual... Schematron-Report patented? - Better not to have any ideas at all...
By Rick JelliffeJanuary 30, 2010 Yet another example of something we made for the public benefit being patented a couple of years later. Patent 7,058,886 Method and apparatus for declarative error handling and presentation. What is it? The present invention includes a method and device... Microsoft loses appeal on Custom XML - What else would be affected? Some XForms? Some XSLT? Some Schematron?
By Rick JelliffeDecember 23, 2009 Microsoft has lost its appeal on the Custom XML feature in Word 2007! To prevent confusion, the removal only applies to one feature in Word 200x that no-one would be using casually on homemade or general office documents. I wrote... Saxon's author writes open letter to UK MP on patents
By Rick JelliffeDecember 14, 2009 Michael Kay has posted on his blog a letter to his MP Patents: an Open Letter to my MP. Why are patents in the software business bad? * Firstly, they reward failure and penalise success...... USPTO gets its prongs in order: but what about schema patents? - Interim New Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidelines
By Rick JelliffeAugust 28, 2009 A counter-reformation rather than a reformation? But welcome none-the-less. 1 to 43 of 43 Stay Connected
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