Comments on: Taking action against Patent Spam http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/ a blog about information Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bobby http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-104867 bobby Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:19:35 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/#comment-104867 Top Patent Holders for 2006:

1 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP — 3651
2 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD KR — 2453
3 CANON K K JP — 2378
4 MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD JP — 2273
5 HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO L P — 2113
6 INTEL CORP — 1962
7 SONY CORP JP — 1810
8 HITACHI LTD JP — 1749
9 TOSHIBA CORP JP — 1717
10 MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC — 1612
11 FUJITSU LTD JP — 1513
12 MICROSOFT CORP — 1463
13 SEIKO EPSON CORP JP — 1205
14 GENERAL ELECTRIC CO — 1051
15 FUJI PHOTO FILM CO LT D JP — 918
16 INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG DE — 904
17 KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV NL — 901
18 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC — 884
19 SIEMENS AG DE — 857
20 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD JP — 836
21 SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC — 776
22 DENSO CORP JP — 770
23 NEC CORP JP — 744
24 RICOH CO LTD JP — 695
25 LG ELECTRONICS INC KR — 695

]]> By: Mike http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-104558 Mike Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:35:27 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/#comment-104558 Here’s Audi comparing itself to NASA indeed! http://www.leyton.org/diary/2006/10/23/backfiring-adverts/

]]> By: Sean http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-104537 Sean Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:01:28 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/#comment-104537 What’s your take on this:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003584992_msftpatent230.html

]]> By: Paul Downey http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-103750 Paul Downey Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:54:41 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/#comment-103750 And then there are these characters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures

]]> By: James Governor http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-103679 James Governor Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:59:03 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/23/taking-action-against-patent-spam/#comment-103679 we already know the answer to numbers one and two- HP and IBM. they actively *market* the fact they file more patents than anyone else. I keep telling them patents dont equal innovation, but i am a lonely voice. i agree the patent system suffers from terrible denial of service attacks.

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