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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

“Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

“Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”.