[Curtman]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Your SOP/MO seems to be wait until someone makes or creates something and then steal it.

Who/what was this about?

[ShepherdsDog]

Mr.C's predilection for software piracy and his oft expressed contempt for the property rights of others.

[PostFactum]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Mr.C's predilection for software piracy and his oft expressed contempt for the property rights of others.

. He thinks like that only because in communism everything is joint.

[ShepherdsDog]

biologists refer to them as parasitic organisms.

[Curtman]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Mr.C's predilection for software piracy and his oft expressed contempt for the property rights of others.

I'm glad I asked first this time before I launched into a defensive rant.

[Curtman]

Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae

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Google has just been ordered to pay $5M for infringing patent 5,893,120 (hereafter "Patent 120"). This patent covers a very simple data structure and the algorithms for manipulating it. In fact much of the text of the patent is a pseudo-code implementation in a Pascal-like language. So I thought I would provide a practical demonstration of what has, until now, been a theoretical proposition; the reduction of a software patent to set of mathematical formulae. The result is below

[Curtman]

This is interesting...

How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost

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On Tuesday Yahoo and its lawyers from McDermott Will & Emery won a jury verdict that Yahoo does not infringe Bedrock's patent, which involves code for removing expired records while the operating system performs other operations. On April 15, a separate Tyler jury reached a contrary conclusion in Bedrock's case against Google, finding that Google infringed the same patent and awarding Bedrock $5 million in damages.
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Yahoo's four co-defendants all settled the weekend before the trial started; the docket indicates that both Amazon and SoftLayer agreed to licensing deals as well as confidential settlements.

Screw Amazon for feeding the patent trolls.