http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/ A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com) en Copyright 2008 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:16:59 -0400 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss After months of anticipation, the agency responsible for issuing patents has started opening its doors to the Internet, launching a wiki-like review process for patent applications. As of last Friday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office began allowing applicants for patents -- specifically in computer technology -- to post their... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/internet_review_for_patents_go_1.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/internet_review_for_patents_go_1.html Alan Sipress Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:16:59 -0400 As Congress wrestles with legislation aimed at overhauling the U.S. patent system for the first time in half a century, the chief federal judge assigned to patent cases has weighed in. And he's raised serious concerns about one of the most far-reaching proposals. The patent reform bill now being considered... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/the_judge_dissents_on_patent_r.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/06/the_judge_dissents_on_patent_r.html Alan Sipress Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:33:38 -0400 Once an epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, Thailand won international acclaim in recent years for its aggressive health campaign to address HIV, reducing the prevalence of infections and improving treatment for those with the virus. But when Thailand announced last year that it was seeking to cut the cost... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/ip_in_thailand_whos_the_real_p_1.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/ip_in_thailand_whos_the_real_p_1.html Alan Sipress Wed, 23 May 2007 12:19:06 -0400 Over the last decade, the number of lawsuits over contested patents has doubled. These court battles can cost a mint to fight and even more to lose. They deprive the company holding the patent of the certainty it needs to make productive use of the invention. Often, the dispute comes... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/special_envoy_to_the_dictionar_1.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/special_envoy_to_the_dictionar_1.html Alan Sipress Thu, 17 May 2007 14:51:08 -0400 Within the last week, Yahoo has announced it's retiring a pair of its offerings: Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada and the Yahoo Photos service. Both had fallen far behind other choices on the Web. The auction site has failed to make inroads against eBay, which has... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/yahoo_sheds_some_baggage.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/yahoo_sheds_some_baggage.html Alan Sipress Thu, 10 May 2007 10:12:52 -0400 Microsoft's quarterly earnings released last week were so robust they surprised even Wall Street analysts. Company executives attributed the success to strong early sales of Vista, the new version of Microsoft's marquee Windows operating system. Yet this news did not quiet the incessant questions: Can the software giant keep... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/a_call_to_robotic_arms_1.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/05/a_call_to_robotic_arms_1.html Alan Sipress Thu, 03 May 2007 07:00:44 -0400 3G is the next wave in cell phone technology, an advance that is already allowing users to exchange email, browse the Web and, most notably, watch video on their phones. For providers of cell phone service, 3G is the future. But that future has recently grown uncertain. In the relatively... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/post_26.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/post_26.html Alan Sipress Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:00:41 -0400 Six months after he took the helm at AOL, Randy Falco says the company has turned the corner, successfully shedding its former subscription business model for an open approach supported by advertising. "The headline is AOL is back," he said in an interview on the eve of today's "First Look"... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/falco_aol_is_back.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/falco_aol_is_back.html Alan Sipress Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:06:52 -0400 For more than four months now, a small - but not inconsequential - group of U.S. Supreme Court watchers has been waiting anxiously for a ruling in the most important recent case you've probably never heard of. There have been repeated reports of an imminent ruling and they've all,... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/patently_clear.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/04/patently_clear.html Alan Sipress Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:58:10 -0400 With the agency responsible for issuing patents now planning to throw open its review process to the Internet, the latest word is that this wiki-type experiment is expected to start around June 1. New York Law School Professor Beth Simone Noveck, who heads a team designing the pilot project,... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/internet_review_for_patents_dr.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/internet_review_for_patents_dr.html Alan Sipress Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:54:19 -0400 In large parts of Asia, aficionados of American cinema get bragging rights if they're the first on their block to put their hands on a newly released movie. Often, they succeed even before the film is out in their country. Some of the DVDs are copies covertly recorded with video... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/operation_double_trouble_1.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/operation_double_trouble_1.html Alan Sipress Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:00:51 -0400 The big news in the tech world today is the $1 billion lawsuit by entertainment conglomerate Viacom against the video Web site YouTube and its parent company, Google, for allegedly infringing copyrights by showing television programs online without permission. But as the lawyers struggle to define intellectual property rights... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/no_olive_branch_for_the_ip_war.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/no_olive_branch_for_the_ip_war.html Alan Sipress Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:25:22 -0400 Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates brought his dire warnings about the future of American competitiveness to the Senate this morning, telling Sen. Edward "Ted" M. Kennedy's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions that tight visa policies are costing the United States some of the world's brightest thinkers. "America has always... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/gates_us_shutting_out_generati.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/gates_us_shutting_out_generati.html Alan Sipress Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:30:39 -0400 As corporate America has learned to do business in today's Idea Economy, so have American lawyers. Intellectual property is becoming ever more central to the success of business. So it's not surprising that court battles over patents and other forms of intellectual property have increased dramatically over the last... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/dispatches_from_the_ip_wars.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/03/dispatches_from_the_ip_wars.html Alan Sipress Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:57:07 -0400 If you're the man who replaced Bill Gates, you're sure to inherit a certain mystique and engender intense interest both inside Microsoft and out. But since Ray Ozzie took over as the company's chief software architect this year, he has studiously maintained a low public profile that has fueled curiosity... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2006/11/windows_opening_for_ray_ozzie.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2006/11/windows_opening_for_ray_ozzie.html Alan Sipress Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:23:26 -0400