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Development by Davis: “Why the patent system doesn't play well with software: If Eolas went the other way” plus 2 more

Why the patent system doesn't play well with software: If Eolas went the other way

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Everyone take a deep breath: it seems we've had a moment of sanity in the patent wars. Last week, a jury invalidated the dangerous Eolas patents, which their owner claimed covered, well, essentially the whole Internet. The patents were originally granted for an invention that helped doctors to view images of embryos over the early web. A few years later, smelling quick cash, their owner insisted that it had a veto right on any mechanism used to embed an object in a web document. Really? The patents are obvious—both now in 2012 and back in 1994, when the first one was filed. Thankfully, a jury realized that and did what should have happened years ago: it invalidated these dangerous patents.

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AMD Appoints John Byrne as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Accounts

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that industry veteran John Byrne has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Accounts. In this newly created position, Byrne will be responsible for ensuring AMD's worldwide sales organization effectively addresses customer needs by exceeding the expecta...

SGI® ICE™ Supercomputer Speeds to Benchmark Record

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, announced today that its SGI® ICE™ 8400 high performance compute (HPC) system with AMD Opteron™ 6200 processors achieved the top performance number for 64-, 32-, 16-, 8-, and 4-socket configurations for the SPECMPIL2007 benchmark. The SPECMPIL benchmark is SPEC's "benchmark suite...

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