Once upon a time I was going to be a lawyer. One reason I didn’t go that way was to avoid running down rabbit holes like the one our own Jason Perlow offered us Thursday. (This puzzle called Down the Rabbit Hole is now on sale over at Legendary Toys.) Microsoft owns FAT32, but it didn’t ...

Simulated guitar? Gibson gets carried away, but the law wins. Photo/bento creation (CC) Sakurako Kitsa.(Yup, this is a Fender Strat, but this is my kind of simulation of a musical instrument - in cheese form!) Gibson, the guitar company, has been on an utterly absurd campaign against music games, br...

News Commentary. Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom is sure to drum up nothing but trouble....

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Simple business model: Make your product/technology popular. Let people start using and depending on it. Now extract money by suing them. Profit! This is exactly what is happening with Patents, its becoming a way to extract money. And Microsoft is using it to fight Linux. Related posts: Is patents l...

Oh sure. Microsoft loves open source. If your open source company is willing to admit Microsoft owns Linux, acknowledge the legitimacy of its proprietary standards, and put “whatever Microsoft wants” at the center of all your business plans, then Microsoft will let you live in its world....

While leaving my gym this morning I noticed our lady of the front desk had the local fishwrap open to the sales. “Look at this,” she said in amazement. “When I bought my iPod it cost $250, and that was before it had video. Now here it is for $145 and it’s the one with the vid...

Biotech, Patents, vaccines Luke Timmerman wrote: One of the world’s best-selling vaccines, Merck’s Gardasil, is quietly producing some serious money for an unexpected benefactor—the University of Washington. Thanks to some hard-fought patent litigation from the 1990s that ended up ...

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat - good coders code, great reuse - Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss Army knife” utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful....

As many people know, a significant volume of patents issues each week.  A number of folks appreciate that even great innovations typically need integration with solid business execution to enter and move forward in the marketplace. Primer For background on today’s business and intellectual proper...