Category: Patent Stupidity

  • Digital World Norway Outlaws iTunes

    Interesting…I’m not a big fan of governments legislating services — particular a service like this in part because there are available options to work around Apple’s Fairplay DRM and allow play of downloaded items on other players.  So I’m not sure what to think about this.  On the one hand — it would be great if the whole DRM concept could…

  • Groklaw – Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent

     Uh, oh.  Looks like the folks at Blackboard should have just let well enough alone.  Given a short period of time, a pluthera of prior art was able to quickly be located — enough to cause a re-examination of the patent.  See the link: Link to Groklaw – Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent…