Sorry for the lateness,
To sum up from earlier, Smart Drive is a company that makes technology for cars that help their customers (mostly transportation companies) cut down on cost and improve their driving skills and time. Smart Drive is claiming that DriveCam illegally stole their patents and charged them yesterday with patent infringement.
URL: http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120322006104/en/Smartdrive/Drivecam/Event-Video-Recorders
Probing Question:
Do you think that technology has helped people to infringe on patents and in the future, will it be any worse as our digital age advances?
I think that technology has deffinetly helped people's capability to infringe and use someone elses patent for their own developement and innovation on their own product or service. I remember Alex saying in his presentation of how companies are taking already made products and reverse engineering them to see how it works which is legal, however some companies are not just reverse engineering, instead they are illigallly taking that similar made product and applying it to their technology to make their own similar or better machine and service. As our digital age progresses it will become even more simple for competeing companies to take, analyze and infring on another companie's patent making it worse for the companies whom originally patent a service and increasing competition.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Greg. Technology has helped people to infringe on patents. People can use the new technology to find out how products are being made and how to make them better. When they do this, they take the credit for making the product which is not fair to the companies who actually came up with the product. I think it will be worse in the future as our technology advances. People will come up with easier ways to find out how to make a certain product and use other companies' patents. As Greg said, this will make for more competition among companies and businesses.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both laura and greg, But the way i think of it is if we cant adapt and change the technology we already have we can improve it. But definitely in the future it will become a bigger problem when there is no "better technology" and peoples ideas will get stolen, a lot more.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Laura, Greg, and Trevor. Technology has helped people find out how new technology is being made, and how the leading competitor can make their technology patent better. There already is very harsh competition between companies, but having to deal with other companies steeling your million dollar idea is pretty harsh. Technology has made it easier for other companies to steal other companies patents.
ReplyDeleteI agree with my classmates, technology has definitely helped people’s capability to use someone else’s patent for their own development for their product/service. Alex mentioned that companies are taking products, already made, and reversing the engineering done one them- to see how they work. What is wrong is that some companies and manufacturers are not just reverse engineering, but they are illegally taking made products, improving it and adding their own technology and calling it their own. As time progresses, especially with today’s technology, it will become easier and easier for competing companies to take other’s patent and tweak it to make it their own. By doing this it makes it worse for the original companies patent to be successful. With our increasing technology, these problems will only continue to increase.
ReplyDeleteAgree that technology has made it easier for companies to use other companies ideas. If things are being saved on the computer, we have found ways to work around passwords. People become hackers and their jobs are to hack into people accounts and steal things. The fact we have a name for that means that technology has allowed for something like that to happen. Back in the day when technology did not exist, it took someone physically to steal an idea that was on a piece of paper but that paper could have been kept much safer than an electronic paper. Things on the internet can never be deleted and can be open to anyone in some way. This will only get stronger over time. With a way to protect comes a way for someone to wonder how to work around the system.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone above, especially Jurnee. I most definitely think that technology has made it much easier for businesses to steal others' ideas. Like Jurnee said, people have jobs as hackers, passwords are very easy to figure out to obtain other companies' ideas and products. I think it will be worse as our digital age advances because it's only going to get easier. The more programs we have, the easier it will be for hackers to get into computers and get what they're looking for. On the other hand, something could also be produced that makes it more difficult for a business' computer system to be hacked, because of how advanced we are in technology. It could go both ways but I think it will most likely get worse as more technology is developed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything that my classmates have said so far. One area where I do not agree, however, is when the topic about advancing technology is brought up. I feel that when technology advances, the companies that have the patents will be able to better protect them. I am aware of hackers out there who can pretty much get their hands on anything, but I think that if technology advances enough, it will be in favor of those abiding by the law, not breaking it. With that said, I do think that this is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. Companies are taking time to create products that haven't been thought of before. By simply accessing a patent, any other company can reproduce that product and call it their own. In the future this will still be a problem. Just because technology advances doesn’t necessarily mean that patent thievery will become any easier than it already is. Just because it isn’t any easier doesn’t mean that it still shouldn’t be stopped.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone above, with newer technology more people are able to take what people have created, tweak it a little bit, and then try to pass it off as their own invention. I think that as technology grows it will become easier to take others idea and use them to make a profit. I think in order to fix this there will need to be strict laws set in place in order to protect digital inventions.
ReplyDeleteI think that as technology grows so will the risk of having your ideas stolen. In the beginning when we first had patents for hings like the cottin gin or things like that we knew exactly who made it and there was not this big problem of who made it and is the next person that made it enfringing on my patent. I also think that it has a lot to do with the lack of respect that we have for one another compared to earlier years. People just wouldn't do some of the things that we do and so boldly boast about in this dday in age. So, I beleive that at this rate the future can only get worse unless we can turn this around.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone, like Shaniece said as our technology grows its getting much for easier for people to steal other peoplea ideas. In the future it'll probably become more difficult to patent things because like Jurnee said they can easily add something or remove something so it's not the same as the orginial object.
ReplyDeleteI believe that competition between businesses are good for the econmey as well as the consumer because the bussinesses are always competing to get more customers and they are always thinking two steps ahead. Also this helps our econmey because they are working to get the lowest prices possible.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the people above me, as technology advances it becomes easier and easier to take someone else's ideas and patents. And while defenses for people's ideas on their computer and on the internet can increase, so do other people's ability to bypass those defenses. The only solution is to not have their computer on the internet, or do everything without a computer. But again, as technology increases it becomes less and less efficient to do that.
ReplyDeleteI believe that technology has really helped the world and all of it should need pattens. O believe that because without a patten here can be a huge monopoly. One pers on invents something and hikes up all the money and there is no alternative
ReplyDeleteBut at the same time thats a huge issue because someone's idea will be stolen and someone could take their idea and pay for better advertising and become rich off someone else's idea. Im not sure exactly how someone could steal someone elses coding but I'm sure it'll worsen as as our age gets advanced but I'm sure it'll get worded as more people know how
I agree with my classmates above that technology has made it eaiser for people to steal patents. It is easier than ever to steal someone's code or to find ways to hack into it for their own use. Also, the advances in technology have made it easier to share information, and more people can profit from the stolen information. In short, not only has the difficulty been decreased, but the motivation has increased.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that technolagy has made patent infrigment easier. I feel that it has and always have the same level of dificulty. Programs like this one can be patented but the ways to get to that same product are not, for examply you can't patent 1+1=2, the steps leading up to the product can't be patented. There for I feel that their patent is not being stolen and it will not become easier in the future as technology advances.
ReplyDeleteI partly agree with everyone because i do believe that technology has and will continue to make patent infringement easier, but i also agree with Evan. I think that there is no proof that they stole their patents just because they made a similar item. This could have been legally made but just very similar. Overall, i do agree that technology is making things like patent infringement easier, but for cases like these it is hard to tell if they did this legally or illegally.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that technology has made it easier for companies to infringe on patents and use those patents for their own use. This coiuld be detrimental to the development of technology in the future because people will be less interested in advancing technology. This would be because they would be afraid of companies infringing on their patents. As our digital age advances, more advanced technology will come out and infringing will become easier and more enticing to companies who are looking to make money. That is all that companies are concerned with, is making money, and they will do whatever it takes to make it in this economy. Evan made a good point that the stealing of patents cannot be proven. Only the infringer knows whether it was stolen or not. This leads to more dishonesty and rivalry between companies and a more challenging economy for people in the business of technology.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am sorry if there are any misspellings in this post, I am using my friend~s laptop and it is set on Portugues keyboard so the punctuation is different and every word is underlined as spelled incorrectly. Sorry!
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