theodp writes "Google has actually managed to patent displaying patents. The USPTO issued US Patent No. D603,866 to six Google inventors for their Graphical user interface ... display screen of a communications terminal. Among the six inventors is the guy who introduced Google Patents. Ironically, Google Patents can't seem to find the new Google patent for Google Patents." Read more of ...

... all of their documentation, as well as papers and other items in good order, so that when it comes time to go to the patent office, all issues will be addressed. The getting and receiving of patents on things that you have invented, is like all other processes, one that requires that you do your home work, and that you have all of the evidence that you are the first person to ever come up with ...

... model. Yet many big companies, particularly in technology and financial services, argue that such patents are too broad and too often used as weapons in costly infringement lawsuits to extract licensing fees ... for anyone to modify, improve and use and is fundamentally at odds with software patents. As the justices sort through these issues, they will have to determine how to draw the line between ...

... Trademark Office reveals that indeed, the company owns some patents. At least two: Some sort of memory card design, which was invented ... Funai Electric Co., which acquired digital TV patents from Thompson and RCA and then went on a quest to get licensing fees ... operations and administration in a statement. Since some of Vizio’s patents will be used in a new line of Vizio TVs, I’m betting ...

... or to search for prior art, and indeed a search of prior patents, which is almost all they know how to do, naturally turns up no prior art. Thus the many preposterously obvious ... how to set a computer to do it. Anyone can do that. Now, it's a machine. So all the business patents are all right back in...all you do is you get somebody who knows computers, and you turn every business patent into ...

... EU centered campaign against the enclosure of life NO PATENTS ON SEEDS AND ANIMALS: Stop the expropriation of farmers ... Board of Appeal, which ruled in 1999 that in principle such patents could be granted. Now the European Patent Office again has to deal ... organisations and other institutions from all over the world, restate our rejection of any patents on life, and urge policy makers and patent ...