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The Thrashing of Patents

It’s considered high-minded right now to come out railing against patents.  Everyone is doing it, from Mark Cuban to Fred Wilson to Twitter. It seems to me that the picture is not quite as black and white as one might think.  Cuban talks (albeit a bit tongue in cheek) about a janitor being sued for […]

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Patents And Uniqueness

I was reading a post from the blog of TaxiSurfer this morning, and it reminded me of a few conversations I have had over the last couple of weeks with software developers / engineers about patenting their work.  Patents have been in the news a good bit lately, and companies like Google are buying up […]

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