He should be using his money to launch a lobbying effort to eliminate software patents.
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen tries again with patent megasuit
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#32>>Also, Mueller said, "[s]hould Google be served an injunction as a result of Interval's suit, owners of Android phones would experience a very significant degradation of the user experience." Well that sucks. It would be terrible if I had my phone's services greatly impaired so this guy can go through his little patent suit.
I think the point would be to use the threat of an injunction to get Google to settle for lots of money out-of-court.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do I think it's acceptable that adults are required to have some understanding of how the world around them works? Yes, I do.
That isn't what I asked. This has nothing to do with understanding the world around you, this has to do with understanding things that were written down on small slips of paper and filed away in boxes inside of a building in Virginia. The slips of paper (which have now been scanned into a computer; images of them are now available on the internet) are there to mark the occasion of the first person writing that partic…
His point is that people who read the abstract to a patent and declare that it's not novel are making the people who actually read the patent and come to the same conclusion look bad.
The abstract is not the patent. It's not meant to be the patent. It's not a legally binding part of the patent. So talking about it in a way that refers to its novelty is just as useful as talking about the novelty of the typeface they used or the brand of paper they used.
Re: Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen tries again with patent megasuit
#34This is exactly what you do when you're a greedy scumbag.
Re: Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen tries again with patent megasuit
#35Anyone really believes this is not coordinated with Microsoft? So the next phase will be when e.g. Wozniak put up a software patent company and sues Microsoft, Google and Nokia? And then some investors in Google will finance a patent troll company which... Patent Armageddon, here we come. :-(
I did note that MS is not listed as one of the defendants.Odd as I'm sure a cursory look would find an infringement of some sort .
Even if MS did infringe on something, why would you sue the company you founded?
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#36The man is dying, and he's really well off, what is he doing patent trolling ?
If you mean he is dying from cancer, actually no, he is now free from cancer. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/297665
He strikes it rich with Microsoft, survives cancer and to repay the world he... turns to patent trolling.
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#37Anyone really believes this is not coordinated with Microsoft? So the next phase will be when e.g. Wozniak put up a software patent company and sues Microsoft, Google and Nokia? And then some investors in Google will finance a patent troll company which... Patent Armageddon, here we come. :-(
Patent Armageddon is a GOOD thing!
If you object to software patents, then it's a good thing - but only when it's over.
During Patent Armageddon, software is going to suck. There will be injunctions on the import and sale of all sorts of products (read: you won't be able to buy shiny new technology, or perhaps even old technology), technological progress will slow down, and being a start up will suck because it will be incredibly beneficial for companies to sue start-ups to build up precedent for their patents. (Note that if this doesn't happen - if there isn't an epic battle over patents - it isn't Armageddon, it's just an apocalypse, being the wide-spread revelation that software patents are horrible things).
Yes, there will be reform, probably large-scale reform. However, it won't come until things get rather bad.
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#38Re: Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen tries again with patent megasuit
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did note that MS is not listed as one of the defendants.Odd as I'm sure a cursory look would find an infringement of some sort .
Allen has already got his money from Microsoft :-)
MS is sitting on a few tens of billions of dollars in cash. How cynical do you need to be to think this pile is off limits for patent trolls?
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#40and this is how software patent ended.
Is the best result we could expect from this.