Microsoft Looks To 'Moneyball' Patents?
from the fascinating dept
I tend not to agree with Microsoft patent boss Horacio Gutierrez on very much when it comes to patents or Microsoft's patent strategy over the past few years. But I have to admit I'm fascinated by his plan to take the lessons of the book Moneyball and try to apply them to patents. Apparently, he's got a team of folks in Redmond, trying to put together data and stats the help judge the value of a patent. I'd be surprised if anything really accurate comes out of it (there are just too many variables and wildcards), but it is an intriguing idea. I wonder if he'll patent it...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Y'know...
It's just like hiring an outside consultant. You (comfy exec) think that they (outside consults) have some special branch of wisdom that may or may not be able to be handed to the people who've been working the trenches every day...
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The broader a patent,the more it restricts the freedom of others, and the more enforceable the more valuable to the owner. So a patent on eating food, if enforceable, is very valuable. A patent on swinging a swing sideways is useless even if enforceable since people can do without that. A patent on breaking the laws of physics is useless since, by definition, we can't break the laws of physics so it won't change anything.
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You give Windows far too much credit. Try going back further to the days of Xerox Parc, or 1983 when the Apple Lisa hit the market a full two years before Windows 1.0.
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I deny that. Only a moron or a troll would think or suggest such a thing.
Here, have another helping of toe cheese...
CBMHB
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It's a good thing
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What ever happened to just making great software?
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Well...
Just sayin'
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It's a "PageRank" for patents.
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