http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/ The economics of digital content Thu, 23 May 2013 14:43:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85633 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:16:36 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85633 Tapping an icon on a touchscreen is an innovation? Get real. It’s the equivalent of setting up a toll booth on your street, and saying you must pay the toll or millions to lawyers to prove it is a public street.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85632 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:47:54 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85632 That’s the problem, this company doesn’t innovate ANYTHING!!!  Their whole business model is to buy as many patents as possible so they can sue the heck out of everybody.  These companies don’t even try to create products with their patents.  The only thing these companies produce is litigation.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85631 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:08:15 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85631 When Patents Attack! http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack This what keeping America down and this is why China is flying free. We are strangling ourselves.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85630 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:34:36 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85630 hey “Invent”, The issue here is that they own technically illegal patents.  The Patent offices don’t have the time or technical expertise to actually be able to allow legitimate patents.  What we are left with are trolls who got crafty in patenting an idea that for all intents and purposes is common sense without a single shred of inventive genius.  It’s akin to someone going out and patenting “A method of exchanging oxygen for carbon monoxide using biologically grown materials.” and then suing everyone in the world for breathing.  Saying “According to the method, a graphical feature having a surface area is
displayed on a touch-sensitive screen. ..To control software executing
on the processor, a user-supplied writing on the surface area is
received and the software is controlled responsive to the writing.” is translated as “you can’t make buttons on touchscreens”  There used to be rules that kept this kind of thing in check.  I forget the exact wording but it boiled down to you couldn’t create a patent on something that would be obvious to a person reasonably experienced in the field to also create on their own with no prior knowledge of your requested patent.  Well since the Patent offices are ignorant of technology… and so are the courts… they aren;t qualified to make that distinction and defer to the patent holder.  Flash forward through the technological age and most patents are just people looking at existing technology and trying to figure out a way to patent someone else’ idea that wasn’t patented because the person who thought it up figured it was so painfully obvious it didn’t warrant patenting.  Abuse of the system, stifling of technology, inflation of development costs, and ultimately abuse of legitimate inventors and consumers, is the real issue.  Careful who you root for (har har)… You may have to pay for every click you make on the internet someday because someone owns the patent on “changing content viewed on a computer screen by means of a mechanical, optical, or other form of human interface.”

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85629 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:31:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85629 The comments here deriding the plaintiffs are curious.  One the one hand, we see a US economy stalled and in need of innovation to revive it.  On the other hand we see criticism of the innovators who invent things and file patents on them.  Innovators are at the same time hailed as saviours and hated as scum.  

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85628 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:22:24 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85628 IMO corporations are simply the victim of the idiotic patent system they helped create.  The only path to “real” reform is for the courts and companies to become so bogged down with litigation until there’s no choice but to fix it.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85627 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:54:37 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85627 I don’t understand why “Non-practicing Entities” are allow to enforce patents. They have nothing to lose by suing people.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85626 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:49:36 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85626 lol, and the only winners are the bottom feeding, blood sucking attorneys!
anon-toolz.edu.tc

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85625 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:42:19 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85625 These patent trolls are ridiculous, they need to fix these systems and put these stupid industry leaches out of “work”

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85624 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:07:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/10/419-kindle-fire-hit-with-patent-suit/#comment-85624 This an is example of ants nibbling at the feet of giants.

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