http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/fcc-fridays2/ Engadget Comments for FCC Fridays http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/fcc-fridays2/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/fcc-fridays2/Simple ones like giving RSS news feeds to Facebook Inc. and Spring Design....Amazon sues Barnes and Noble, Spring Design Sues them, etc.
It's getting into the double digits of Corporations suing BN and the Nook in the last 6 months.

Let's call Apple Genius Bar, a bar of (from my observations)...again, a bar of stupidity. I'm sad to see their lack of empirical knowledge and the age of the Apple Store Employees.
They haven't patented that word (...Genius...) correct?
I am correct to say I have more Common Sense them giving patents to corporations, that are just uneducated properly and greedy.

Sun Micro-systems is correct.....They used the right words, which was "Patent Terrorists" in the form of corporations.]]>Feb 27th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/fcc-fridays2/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/fcc-fridays2/FCC doesn’t handle patents, the USPTO does. Patents are there to protect and encourage invention, innovation and competition and is specifically called out in the US Constitution, Article I. They protect the little self inventor guys/gals all the way up to the corporations. All the lawsuits generally happen because one, someone doesn’t respect the existing patent and/or law or two, patents applications by nature are broadly wordy to give maximum protection interpretation, which opens up people to interpret different meaning themselves, which they believe would not apply to them, and it may or may not, which is why it goes to the court system. If you don’t like that something you thought up has already been thought up before and patented, then think up something else new or an improvement to what has already been patented. That is how progress is made by inventing new tech and moving forward. Apple would not/cannot patent the word Genius, they would ,however, Trademark the word Genius or Genius Bar in the category of Computer Services or something similar to protect them from others using their name. You could still go on and make a food snack with proteins and Omega 3s and call it Genius Bar and it would not infringe on their trademark of Genius Bar.]]>Feb 28th 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/fcc-fridays2/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/fcc-fridays2/Having to file a patent is not so cheap, that's why there are conventions of people (normal citizens many of the times) giving ideas to corporations. The Jay Leno show, for example, covers these things (this is Corps. patenting the ideas of others). Microsoft does this too, very well. They provide a nice meal at conventions which I've been to, and listen to others so that they can profit on others ideas. Microsoft also buys out companies that have patents.
Another problem is double dipping on a patent. Drug companies/Biotech companies are know for this. When their patent expires, they use loopholes in the system. They change one molecule, in the case of Provigil/Nu-vigil and make it come out exactly when the patent expires.
Double dipping in the drug companies is this: An XR or SR version of a Drug is re-patented. According to Teva of Israel, this is unethical. Double dipping is not right. What is the marginal cost, for aid drugs or vaccines going to the nations that wouldn't buy it in the first place? It's like one pill in the assembly line. People die, due to this greed and loopholes.
Teva from Israel has a point, they have the right to sue for patent abuse and have.
The FCC has a main complainant form, they should be fighting it. The USPTO just takes them in.
So we (our country) gives rent to corporations for patents. When is the last time the government has ratified the patent rent time period for a corporation?
A patent can also monopolize on an idea or even give excuse rights for competitors that would may make fruit of an idea.
Wither you think Monopolies are good that's up to you (they are bad in my opinion). However, the Sherman Anti-Trust Law quote "requires the United State government" to step in when the attempt to Monopolies takes place (1890). They are not stepping in in many cases. Would it be appropriate for the United Nations to step in if certain people in the Fed are not Obeying their own laws regarding investigation?
Lobbyist, special interest groups.....we have more per capita than any other nation.
There also a lot of dumb patents out there, that one must wondering.....How did the Fed allow a patent for such an obvious thought. Or patenting innovations that haven't even happened yet, or as where the technology it was not there to implement the patent's rent on a idea which preempts competitors.
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