by Brian Prentice | July 28, 2009 | 9 Comments
OK, I admit it. Software patenting is a less than an attractive topic! It’s intricately bound to the purposefully Byzantine world of law, fortified with ideological dogma, and liberally coated with political scheming. There are so many reasons to stick your fingers in your ears, shut your eyes and hum to yourself “I’m in my [...]
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by Brian Prentice | July 14, 2009 | 40 Comments
As an IP-intensive industry, IT is facing a unique challenge. We’re in a state of IP flux. There is intense debate over how we define and allocate the assets of an industry generating well over US$3 trillion revenue globally. My biggest concern with this debate relates to software and business methods patents. Specifically, that we [...]
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by Brian Prentice | July 8, 2009 | 4 Comments
It’s like a scene straight out of Jerry Maguire. Google has rocked up at the operating system party, looked lovingly into the eyes of the IT community and proclaimed, “you complete me.” And boy, has the IT community been completing them since. I didn’t think it was possible to surpass Apple Computer in the ability [...]
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