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Comment Another idea from IBM (Score 1) 466

by pynguin on Monday May 04, 2009 @04:59PM (#27821209) Attached to: Google Mows With Goats

At the SVL lab in San Jose, IBM also has employed goats for at least 4 years (that was when I first saw them). Sure they might produce gases, but they would just be doing it somewhere else. I say employ as many goats as necessary!!!

Submission + - Google: Patent system broken, Apple: No its not. 1

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on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @11:09PM

Whiney Mac Fanboy writes: "Part of the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, was the panel discussion "The Patent Crisis: Crossroads for the Business of Technology." — with speakers including Google's, IBMs & Apple's patent lawyers. According to coverage from The Register, Google's head of patents believes the system is in crisis: "The Patent Office is overburdened," she said. "The volume of patents going in is huge. And the quality of patents coming out — it could be better." Apple's chief patent counsel, Chip Lutton on the other hand, said the US patent system was "not broken" and that it was "not in crisis," calling it "the best in the world"."

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