Techdirt.com is a fascinating blog that covers the current wars being fought around copyright, intellectual property, patents and other areas that may impede or help the free flow of informa... Read more
Techdirt.com is a fascinating blog that covers the current wars being fought around copyright, intellectual property, patents and other areas that may impede or help the free flow of informa... Read more
. . . patents are looking increasingly similar to the sort of financial derivatives that have brought down today's economy: Read more
Image via Wikipedia Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The... Read more
Image via Wikipedia While many people (especially politicians and the press) like to equate patents and innovation (often falsely suggesting that fewer patents means less innovation), studie... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Slashdot points us to an interview with Andre Geim, who won this year’s Nobel Prize for physics for his work on graphene. As part of the interview, they asked him a... Read more
Plenty of studies have shown, over and over again, that in an emerging market, the last thing you want is patent protection. Read more
For many years, we’ve discussed how the Bayh-Dole Act, which created incentives for universities to patent the (often federally-funded) research results of professors, has been a disma... Read more
Inventor: Paul Allen Filed: August 27, 2010 Abstract: A method for preventing innovation, specifically in the tech sector, by way of a dangerous misconception of what is patentable and a sad... Read more
Paul Graham has written one of his typically worth-reading essays about why Yahoo! went from the darling of the internet world in the mid- to late-90’s to whatever it is today (... Read more
Image by jontintinjordan via Flickr Patent nonsense DO PATENTS help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing, especially for backroom tinkerers. Patenting an idea give... Read more