Expert Analysis: How KSR V. Teleflex should Change Your Patent Strategies |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, 17 May 2007 |
In the recent case of KSR v. Teleflex, the US Supreme Court has redefined the standard of what is too obvious to patent. Patent attorneys will soon be responding with some new strategies. Let’s take a look at what to expect. KSR is good news for those innocent waifs being victimized by thuggy patent trolls, which is to say innocent big corporations fending off the patent claims of nasty individual inventors. As an alternative to the courts, the US Patent Office has long provided its own reexamination procedure to address questions of patent validity. But reexamination has been little used, perhaps due to a perception that the formal process seemed too favorable to patent owners. No more. Now reexamination looks much more attractive to potential challengers and seems like a faster, cheaper, and more certain way to dispose of a troublesome patent than litigation in the courts....more  (0) Comments |
Startup Commercializes Open-Source Microkernel |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
The open-source OKL4 microkernel, developed by Australia's Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology (NICTA), is about to receive a strong commercial push. Open Kernel (OK) Labs, a NICTA spinoff, is setting up its U.S. headquarters in Chicago and is rolling out a commercial support package for OKL4.
OKL4, under development at NICTA for the past four years, is an open-source microkernel aimed at embedded consumer and mobile devices. It claims fast performance and supports virtualization, real-time programming, software componentization, fine-grained protection domains, and dynamic resource partitioning. As a microkernel, it only contains code that executes in privileged processor mode....more (0) Comments |
|
Why The Lawsuits Over Options Backdating Are Failing |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
The practice of pricing employee stock options after they've been granted may raise red flags among federal investigators and infuriate investors, but it has never been illegal for US companies. It's easy to forget that, given the dozens of inquiries by securities regulators and prosecutors into what has come to be known as "options backdating." Yes, a growing number of executives from tech firms such as McAfee and Apple have been charged with civil or criminal wrongdoing as a result of those probes. But those charges stem from failures to properly account for the option grants -- or, in Apple's case, for allegedly faking a board meeting -- and not for the backdating itself. That's why investors hoping to gain recompense through options-backdating lawsuits are going to be disappointed, as the conclusion of two such suits maker clear....more (0) Comments
|
|
India Set To Enter Chip Manufacturing Industry |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
|
India stood on the sidelines for the past decade as the other high-flying tech industry powerhouse, China, built a world-class computer chip industry. No more. As soon as next month, a company plans to begin building India's first chip fabrication plant, or what's called a fab. At least one other chip manufacturing plant also is likely to be under way this year. There will be more, as many 10 manufacturing plants in all in one area of India alone, an area the developer has, in fact, dubbed "Fab City."...more (0) Comments |
|
Online Entertainment Promises Big Opportunities For Tech Vendors |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
|
As broadcast TV, movies, and other professionally produced content gets moved onto the Internet, huge opportunities are emerging for vendors who provide hardware, bandwidth and services, reports In-Stat. The value of the annual infrastructure build-out for online entertainment services is expected to quintuple between 2007 and 2011, reaching more than US$4.1 billion, the market research firm says....more (0) Comments |
|
Worldwide Software Piracy Rate Holds Steady At 35%, Global Losses Up 15% |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
|
A new study reveals that 35% of the software installed in 2006 on personal computers (PCs) worldwide was obtained illegally, amounting to nearly $40 billion in global losses due to software piracy. Progress was seen in a number of emerging markets, most notably in China, where the piracy rate dropped ten percentage points in three years, and in Russia, where piracy fell seven percentage points over three years. These are among the findings of the fourth annual global PC software piracy study released today by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the commercial software industry. The study was conducted independently by IDC....more (0) Comments |
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
| Results 1 - 10 of 558 |
