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Facebook, Yahoo and abolishing software patents

You will read and hear a lot regarding software patents in the aftermath of the lawsuit filed by Yahoo vs Facebook over ten of its patents.   For example, Mark Cuban hopes this lawsuit leads to a 50 billion dollar judgment for Yahoo in order to bankrupt Facebook and incite change in the patent system through [&hellip

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America Invents Act and the Lean Startup

One of the biggest debates leading up to the passage of the America Invents Act, the patent reform law that was signed by president Obama in October, 2011, was its effect on small businesses.  Many worried that the first to file provisions of the new patent act would disadvantage small businesses by forcing them to [&hellip

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