{"id":9387,"date":"2011-06-23T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/now_you_need_to_be_a_lawyer_to_understand_tech.html"},"modified":"2011-06-23T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:57:15","slug":"now-you-need-to-be-a-lawyer-to-understand-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/now-you-need-to-be-a-lawyer-to-understand-tech.html","title":{"rendered":"Now You Need to be a Lawyer to Understand Tech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/judge.jpg\" alt=\"judge.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><br \/>It seemed to start off slowly but now the trend is gaining momentum &#8211; lawsuits over patents in tech are everywhere and its tough to make decisions which are best for your company when you aren&#8217;t sure if the products and services you are purchasing are infringing on the patents of others.<\/p>\n<p>I must say that when the number of stories of tech patents gets to the dizzying level we are seeing today, it isn&#8217;t good for anyone. Well except lawyers of course. Sure it is great to protect peoples&#8217; inventions but at the same time there are some very silly patents out there which are being used to &#8220;extort&#8221; money out of companies who have successfully put together a suite of products and services consumers want.<\/p>\n<p>Solving the problem is beyond the scope of this entry but to get an idea of what set me off take a look at some recent stories in the patent space:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/legal.tmcnet.com\/topics\/legal\/articles\/188166-oracle-versus-google-android-infringement-what-country.htm\">Oracle versus Google on Android Infringement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/06\/23\/uspto_rejects_oracle_android_claims\/\">Oracle&#8217;s Android claims slashed by US patent authorities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110623\/ap_on_hi_te\/us_kodak_apple_patents\">Ruling awaited in Kodak patent battle with Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/legal.tmcnet.com\/topics\/legal\/articles\/186299-dolby-sues-research-motion-alleged-patent-infringement.htm\">Dolby Sues Research in Motion for Alleged Patent Infringement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed to start off slowly but now the trend is gaining momentum &#8211; lawsuits over patents in tech are everywhere and its tough to make decisions which are best for your company when you aren&#8217;t sure if the products and services you are purchasing are infringing on the patents of others. I must say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,170,163,188,1676,118,177,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}