This may be a bridge between the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30know.html?ex=1199768400&en=2d5ab9eff97b41f6&ei=5070&emc=eta1">innovation and collaboration article</a> and creative-destruction I have in the conceptual stage or it may be a stand alone. <br>
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22 Jan 08
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From the vantage point of a half-century, for example, it’s clear that the formation of Silicon Valley involved serendipity more than intentional design.
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It appears that the Senate leadership has sympathy for the large technology companies. Opposed to big tech is a small group of high-profile inventors, like the Segway designer Dean Kamen and the former Apple engineer and QuickTime co-inventor Steve Perlman, as well as venture capitalists and a growing array of smaller businesses that do not share the market power of the largest companies. They have joined forces with the pharmaceutical industry, which has traditionally relied on the protection of a strong patent system.
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Mr. Perlman says the Supreme Court has already made two landmark rulings that he says have largely addressed the “troll” problem without harming independent inventors like himself. In one case, eBay v. MercExchange, the court limited the ability of a patent covering a small feature to be used as a weapon, as in the NTP-R.I.M. settlement. In April, the court went much further in KSR International v. Teleflex, substantially raising the bar for patent holders in proving that their invention is not obvious. The ruling will make many existing patents more vulnerable and make new patents harder to get as well.
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Add Sticky Note“I have to say I’m frankly astonished that apportionment has been this controversial,” said Mark A. Lemley, an intellectual-property scholar at Stanford who has testified in support of the legislation. “I can’t think of a straight-faced argument that you as a patent owner are entitled to more than your invention has contributed to a product.”
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