the six degrees patent
seminal social networking patent, owned by Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman. In-Q-Tel and Tacit systems also have some patents in this area, and they are also investors in Facebook.
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I strongly believe that the recent trend to patenting algorithms is of benefit only to a very small number of attorneys and inventors, while it is seriously harmful to the vast majority of people who...
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JUSTICE BREYER: So that would mean that every — every businessman — perhaps not every, but every successful businessman typically has something. His firm wouldn’t be successful if he didn’t have...
View ArticleWHEN PATENTS ATTACK
this american life – on patents, and those such as chris crawford’s that cover foundational aspects of our online existence that, in this particular instance, overlaps with 5303 other patents with...
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