[PLUG] THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Jul 26 14:41:18 UTC 2011


Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:40:15PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote:
>> THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show
>> Sun, July 24, 10am. Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town 
>> in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door ... and then leave it 
>> completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial 
>> billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40-pound cookbook and a war that 
>> is waging right now across the software and tech industries. This 
>> American Life unpacks an amazing story of a battle over progress, 
>> innovation and the U. S. Constitution.
> 
> Could somebody summarize this for me?  I have a hard time hearing,
> radio shows especially.  I assume this is about Nathan Myrvold,
> his company Intellectual Ventures, and the patent-troll-friendly
> East Texas district of the US District Court.

You're in luck.  There's a transcript of the show.  24 page pdf.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/TAL441_transcript.pdf

I haven't yet listened to the show.

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Galen Seitz
galens at seitzassoc.com



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