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Amazon discloses the extent of its patent battles
BOOKSELLER AMAZON has had 11 patent lawsuits filed against it this year, according to a filing with US financial regulators.
The filing at the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Amazon has increasingly been hauled into court to explain its innovations and support them with documentation.
Complaints range in topic, according to the BBC, and could show how difficult it is for firms to launch new technology and software. That is, if any number of patent troll outfits were not already proving that every day anyway.
Patent complaints filed against Amazon are up three-fold this year, according to the BBC, and take things like the Kindle ebook, cloud computing, storage systems and displaying information on an e-commerce web site under their black-feathered wings.
September appears to have been the worst month for the company, as it had seven separate patent cases filed against it that month. µ
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Well, perhaps if the US updated their patent laws and procedures then that would bring patent trolling to an end.
So far as us outsiders can tell the US patent system is designed to drain the creative industries of cash and put it in the hands of the lawyers and trolls. The former, by definition, don't actually bring a net contribution to the well being of the USA, and the latter have no intention of doing so either.
The way that one can in the US continually massage a patent applicaiton until it describes someone else's successful product is ridiculous. Is it any wonder that the country that allowed a patent for a comb-over has trouble with intellectual property?
Why is it that large successful companies do their best to pirate other’s inventions? There is something about success which leads to a god complex.
What Amazon and other invention pirates are doing is an even bigger ripoff then the mortgate and bailout fiascos combined.
Invention has always been a big factor in driving America’s economy. It has become even more important with globalization. The reason is that patent protected American ingenuity drives ceration of good paying jobs.
Unfortunately large companies are stealing our ingenuity and shipping it to the same places they have been sending so may jobs.
America cannot sustain our standard of living as long as big companies are allowed to steal American ingenuity for their own profit.
Ronald J. Riley,
President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org
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Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
President - Alliance for American Innovation
Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
Washington, DC
Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.