{"id":2995,"date":"2018-11-10T02:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T02:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2018-11-12T01:59:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:59:32","slug":"microsoft-is-supporting-patent-trolls-still-new-leadership-at-uspto-gives-room-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/microsoft-is-supporting-patent-trolls-still-new-leadership-at-uspto-gives-room-for-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is Supporting Patent Trolls, Still. New Leadership at USPTO Gives Room for Concern."},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted in Deception<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, Patents<\/a> at 7:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz<\/p>\n

\"LOT<\/p>\n

Summary<\/b>: New statements from Microsoft\u2019s management (Andersen) serve to show that Microsoft hasn\u2019t really changed; it\u2019s just trying to sell \u201cAzure IP Advantage\u201d, hoping that enough patent trolls with their dubious software patents will blackmail GNU\/Linux users into adopting Azure for \u2018protection\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

T<\/a>HIS morning we wrote four articles about the European Patent Office (EPO<\/a>), but we haven\u2019t lost sight of American matters, which we typically cover in the weekend due to lack of time. Yesterday we wrote about the aggressive past<\/a> (arguably patent trolling) of the new Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO<\/a>). This past of hers has been mentioned in IPPro Patents coverage that yesterday noted<\/a> \u201cPeter was also previously vice president and general counsel of Immersion Corporation, where, among other legal roles, she led its IP portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n

Immersion Corporation is a patent aggressor that many out there have also dubbed \u201cpatent troll\u201d. Peter\u2019s boss\/superior is another person who comes from a questionable background and was likely appointed because of nepotism<\/a>. So what on Earth is going on? It\u2019s not hard to see who benefits (cui bono<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The Microsoft-friendly and Microsoft-sponsored IAM (it is also sponsored by Microsoft\u2019s patent trolls) has just quoted\/paraphrased<\/a> Microsoft\u2019s patent chief Andersen as saying: \u201cmore valuable for us to essentially license our patents through Open Invention And LOT Networks than to try to license them on our own\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

What on Earth does that even mean? Can that be interpreted as Microsoft using OIN to just tax\/cross-license with software patents? Remember that Microsoft staff was forbidden from commenting on it<\/a>. That can only mean that Microsoft is hiding something.<\/p>\n

Microsoft, morever, supports the terrible Director who supports patent trolls. Quoting IAM\u2019s tweet<\/a>: \u201cAndersen on PTO Director Iancu \u2013 I\u2019m a fan, he\u2019s doing a super job. One of things we\u2019ve told him is importance of getting certainty back particularly post-Alice. PTO has a role to play in giving us more clarity and I think he\u2019s taken that to heart\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t inspire a positive view of Microsoft\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 policy or strategy, which also involves selling \u2018protection\u2019 from its patent trolls through Azure Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted in Deception, Microsoft, Patents at 7:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: New statements from Microsoft\u2019s management (Andersen) serve to show that Microsoft hasn\u2019t really changed; it\u2019s just trying to sell \u201cAzure IP Advantage\u201d, hoping that enough patent trolls with their dubious software patents will blackmail GNU\/Linux users into adopting Azure for \u2018protection\u2019 THIS … <\/p>\n

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