http://paidcontent.org/2011/04/28/419-barnes-noble-microsoft-misusing-patents-to-dominate-android/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 12:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/04/28/419-barnes-noble-microsoft-misusing-patents-to-dominate-android/#comment-88841 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:50:23 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/04/28/419-barnes-noble-microsoft-misusing-patents-to-dominate-android/#comment-88841 Just another in a series of proofs how software patents are abused to slow down progress and destroy competition. The world would be much more just without them

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/04/28/419-barnes-noble-microsoft-misusing-patents-to-dominate-android/#comment-88840 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:46:31 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/04/28/419-barnes-noble-microsoft-misusing-patents-to-dominate-android/#comment-88840 I give Barnes & Noble’s credit for the effort, but I don’t give their misuse defense much of a chance at success (either on the merits, or as a tool to use as negotiating leverage). The money they’ll spend trying to prove an antitrust violation would be better spent acquiring a patent portfolio to use offensively against Microsoft. http://gametimeip.com/2011/04/27/questionable-strategy-employed-against-microsoft-patent-assertion/

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