11-25-2005, 10:57 AM
Quote:If you would have to nominate one issue that is at the heart of the digital economy, it would most likely be intellectual property rights. Think of some of the hot stories of the recent past -- music downloads and peer-to-peer (P2P), Amazon and the one-click ordering, Google and its proposed digital library, Cisco vs. Huawei, the customizing of iPod/Xbox/Playstation boxes, open-source software, and many more -- and you can see that intellectual property (IP) lawyers are not likely to be out of work anytime soon.
..when companies start complaining about the granting of patents to things that are obvious, you'd also have to suggest that everything looks obvious in hindsight..
full article: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/QBp6TG...ongs.xhtml