[Fsfe-ie] NY Times article "A Payday for Patents 'R' Us"

[Joseph Kiniry]

Hi all,

There is an interesting article in today's NY Times entitled "A Payday  
for Patents 'R' Us" by Ian Austen and Lisa Guernsey.

This article summarizes NTP's successful patent dispute against  
Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry.  NTP is another  
patent-only company run by lawyers.

The last line of the article, a quote from the president of NTP, Donald  
Stout (esq.) is particularly telling:

 > Those who criticize, they think that unless you make products, you  
aren't entitled
 > to having rights," he said. "That's just not so."

As many of you know, registration is required for reading the NY Times.  
  See today's Technology Section at nytimes.com or follow this link  
which will probably work for less than two days <sigh>:
    
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/technology/02patent.html? 
ex=1115697600&en=9566e9ad593d440f&ei=5070


Also, I had emailed this mailing list a shortlist of interesting  
academic patent articles last week.  Did list members see that email?   
I do not see it in the archive.

Joe
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Joseph R. Kiniry
Dept. of Computer Science, University College Dublin
http://secure.ucd.ie/