by Jeff Yablon | Dec 14, 2010 | Business Process
It sucks to be Paul Allen. Bill Gates’ co-founder of Microsoft just had his huge software patent lawsuit against almost everybody in the whole world thrown out of court. OK, it actually rocks to be Paul Allen; despite having had one failure after another since...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 5, 2010 | Business Process
You didn’t think Facebook was done with social networking and software patents, did you? The United States Office of Patents and Trademarks has just issued Patent # 7,827,208. It covers Facebook’s news feed feature. But unlike Patent 7,669,123 issued to...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 12, 2010 | Business Process, Content
A few weeks ago I came across an article in The New York Times that struck me. It was about Football, Software, and Patents and Copyrights, which might seem like subjects that shouldn’t be able to be discussed all together. Guess Again. To the disinterested,...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 25, 2010 | Business Process
Remember when the Library of Congress issued policy that effectively created law surrounding (and making explicitly legal) “jailbreaking” your smartphone? Of course you do; it was only about a month ago. It took Apple just a few weeks to respond. Their...
