Patent Lawsuits in the Mobile Industry [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Patents - protecting Intellectual Property, or inhibiting innovation?
Don't know what your views are but if you're asking me it seems that what started out as protecting an individual's intellectual work is turning out to be a major obstacle in research.
Disclaimer: A philosophical / ideological discussion would normally follow here, but I don't want to wander off...
Anyway, this latest graphic from flowingdata.com shows just how confusing the whole situation is in the mobile industry at the moment...
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| What a mess... Just as well there's no self-pointing arrows... |
Earlier this week we saw two versions of mobile patent lawsuits. The original was tangled, whereas the interactive revision was less jumbled. Reader Josh commented that the original had an advantage over the clearer version in that it actually demonstrated the mess that is patent law. A simliar argument came up last year, too, with this confusing chart showing Obamacare.With the patent chart, there's clearly a way to make the data more readable. If you had a choice between the original and the remake, is it okay to choose the original if your point is that mobile patent lawsuits suck and are more confusing than they need to be?
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Patent laws are quite difficult and different according to different countries. To be patentable, an invention must be essentially new, must involve an inventive step, there is no obvious need to be made or used, and can not fall within certain limited categories.
Really hard structure!