RE: [ITPOLITIK] Hvorfor Bill Gates vil have 3.000 patenter pr. år.

["Steen Engholm" <sslug@sslug>]

> From: Jesper Krogh <sslug@sslug>
> Reply-To: sslug@sslug
> To: sslug@sslug
> Subject: [ITPOLITIK] Hvorfor Bill Gates vil have 3.000 patenter pr. år.
> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 07:19:50 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Dette er udelukkende om det Amerikanske patentsystem, historien er at
> Microsoft har hævet målsætningen til 3.000 patenter pr. år fra tidligere
> 2.000 patenter pr. år.
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/31/1722227&from=rss
> http://news.com.com/Why+Bill+Gates+wants+3%2C000+new+patents/2100-1008_3-5812318.html?tag=nefd.top
>
>   "EXCITING," "uninteresting" and "not exciting" don't seem like
>   technical terms, but they show up a lot in United States patent
>   application No. 20,050,160,457, titled "Annotating Programs for
>   Automatic Summary Generation."
>
>   It seems to be about baseball. The inventors have apparently come up
>   with software that can detect the portions of a baseball broadcast
>   that contain what they call "excited speech," as well as hits (what I
>   call "excited ball") and automatically compile those portions into a
>   highlights reel.
>
>   .... What would Jefferson think if he were around to visit Microsoft's
>   campus, seeing software patents stacked like pyramids of cannonballs?
>
>
> Jesper
>
> --

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