Posts tagged…Patents
Apple’s patent protectionism
Thu, Mar 04 2010In an action before the U.S. Federal courts and the International Trade Commission, Apple Inc. is attacking a Taiwanese manufacturer of Google's Android Phone for alleged abuse of 20 software patents. It seems the suits are aimed at slowing the growth of competition for the iPhone and, possibly, aimed at Google's proposed web operating system.
The prosecution of software patents, especially…
Read more…How creepy can big Pharma be?
Mon, May 04 2009Firms in the industry that leads a global clamor about the theft of patents have much slipperier standards when it comes to passing off on their own account.
Testimony in a current Australian civil suit against Merck, the creator of Vioxx (below), shows that Merck sponsored a fake medical journal. The phony 'Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine' collected reprints of favorable mentions…