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		<title>Oracle Seeking Android Licensing Fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently discussed how Microsoft is charging Android phone manufacturers a $5-$15 fee per smartphone to license Microsoft patents.&#160; Now Oracle has its hand out and is asking for a whopping $15-$20 per Android smartphone for royalties on its patents.&#160; So far none of the major phone manufacturers have coughed up any money to Oracle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Sues the World for Patent Infringement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit against “the world” for violating its U.S. Patent 3,141,5926 “Removing a Booger by Performing Gestures with a Finger.”&#160; Apple is demanding licensing royalties from all world citizens who pick their nose, and a cease &#38; desist order against Kleenex tissues for providing citizens with an alternate method to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Community Promise for C# and CLI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is applying its Community Promise to the C# programming language and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).&#160; This means that anyone can freely build, sell, distribute or use programs with C# and the CLI without signing a license agreement or otherwise communicating to Microsoft.&#160; This applies to all distribution models including open source and GPL.&#160; Under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Granted 10,000th Patent</title>
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		<comments>http://www.devtopics.com/microsoft-granted-10000th-patent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft received its 10,000th U.S. patent earlier this month.&#160; This makes Microsoft one of the leading patent filers, though IBM still files the most patents and in 2008 became the first company to issue 4,000 patents in a single year. “Logging the 10,000th patent really is a testament to all of the innovation that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Office Rejects Claims on Subdomains</title>
		<link>http://www.devtopics.com/patent-office-rejects-claims-on-subdomains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are constantly bombarded with news of stupid software patents, so it’s nice to see the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) actually reject a stupid patent once in a while. The USPTO rejected all 20 patent claims for Internet subdomains held by the Hoshiko company.&#160; The USPTO ruled that the idea of subdomains &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Nice Day and Get Sued for It ;-)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.devtopics.com/have-a-nice-day-and-get-sued-for-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently America hasn&#8217;t cornered the market on stupid patents and trademarks.&#160; A Russian businessman has obtained a Russian trademark for the emoticon which is used to convey a wink in text messages and e-mail. Oleg Teterin, president of the mobile ad company Superfone, said he doesn&#8217;t plan to sue individual users.&#160; &#8220;I want to highlight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Sues to Defend Visual Studio Users</title>
		<link>http://www.devtopics.com/microsoft-sues-to-defend-visual-studio-users/</link>
		<comments>http://www.devtopics.com/microsoft-sues-to-defend-visual-studio-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is scary, folks.&#160; If you use Microsoft Visual Studio to create web services, you could be subject to lawsuits for patent infringement.&#160; Yes, simply using a software program puts your company and livelihood at legal risk, yet another sign of how terribly flawed is the U.S. software patent system. Fortunately, Microsoft is coming to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today is &#8220;World Day Against Software Patents&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.devtopics.com/today-is-world-day-against-software-patents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.devtopics.com/today-is-world-day-against-software-patents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As currently implemented in the United States, software patents suck.  Microsoft&#8217;s recent patent of page up/down proves by example how flawed the system is.  DevTopics supports the protection of intellectual property, but is against the current software patent system, which hinders innovation, rewards bureaucracy, and fails to protect the little guy. We are not alone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect Your Software with Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks</title>
		<link>http://www.devtopics.com/protect-your-software-with-patents-copyrights-and-trademarks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.devtopics.com/protect-your-software-with-patents-copyrights-and-trademarks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve spent thousands of hours developing a new software program. Now how do you ensure that your competitors don&#8217;t copy your program and steal your market? The sad truth is you can&#8217;t, as Apple discovered when Microsoft &#8220;borrowed&#8221; its graphical user interface to build Windows and corner the PC operating system market. But there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brief History of Software Patents</title>
		<link>http://www.devtopics.com/brief-history-of-software-patents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.devtopics.com/brief-history-of-software-patents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Patents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor for a fixed period of time in exchange for disclosure of an invention.&#160; The patent enables the inventor to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing the invention. (wiki) History of Patents Evidence suggests the ancient Greeks were the [...]]]></description>
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