[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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