Patent vs. Open Source

Patent is a European (including USA) development in order to give special right to an inventor or company for a specific invention. First patents was issued in Europe in mid of 1400 but the actual boom started in the beginning of 1800. In the start of 19th century most of the European countries provided protection of an innovation with state laws. The first International treaty was signed in 1883 (Paris Convention) in order to provide protection across the boarders. Patent system is used for monetizing the inventions but at the same time it restrict the distribution of knowledge and technology.

Open Source on the other hand is a system used in the history for distributing knowledge. There was no patents for inventions done in China like paper, Arabs like algebra or by Indians like Cotton Gin.

The future will be more Open Source than current close system approach of IPOs. The main reason is the culture difference of new world powers (China, India) from European way of life. Culturally the people living in China, India, Brazil or other emerging markets are more open to share. For Example in India and China the cost of a Book is a cost of copying it with photo copy machine and cost of Software is the cost of copying a CD. The IPO model of innovation will not work in these communities. The innovation in these countries will be open and the speed of innovation will be accelerated due to the free availability of knowledge.

Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense - Open Source

In his video at the end he mentioned that he would like to put this as open source for every body to use. I am going to write on this topic next. Patent vs. Open Source, how the new words culture will change the way business is done today.

Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

Patent increase in Emerging Markets

Patent_Office	2000	2006	2007	2008	% Increase from 2000 to 2008
Japan	125,880	141,399	164,954	176,950	41
United States of America	157,496	173,770	157,283	157,772	0
China	13,058	57,786	67,948	93,706	618
Republic of Korea	34,956	120,790	123,705	83,523	139
European Patent Office	27,523	62,780	54,699	59,819	117
Russian Federation	17,592	23,299	23,028	28,808	64
Canada	12,125	14,972	18,550	18,703	54
Germany	14,707	21,034	17,739	17,308	18
Australia	13,548	9,426	11,236	11,863	-12
France	11,274	13,788	12,112	10,811	-4
Mexico	5,527	9,632	9,957	10,440	89
Singapore	5,090	7,393	7,478	6,286	23
United Kingdom	8,253	7,907	5,930	5,360	-35
Hong Kong (SAR), China	2,737	5,146	4,839	4,001	46
India	1,263	7,539			497

Source: WIPO

China leads in Next Generation Technologies?

Internet of Things (IoT)

It is no secert that in the Manufacturing/Export space China had crossed industrial nations. Most of the analyst in Europe/USA thinks that in innovation we are still leading and China is far behind. I respectfully disagree, if you see the IPC (Patents) statistics it is quite visible that China and India are innovating with much faster pace as anticipated. IoT is just an other example, if you go to search on Google for IEEE_802.15.4 (IEEE standard for physical layer WPANs) there will be more sites in Chinese on the first page than in English.

Google Nexus One - a flop

I was expecting that Google will not succeed in the mobile market with their Nexus One. Following news confirm this:

Google Nexus One launch-week sales disappoint

Google is trying in alot of fields me-too kind of approach which is far away from real innovation. Until now the only success google bring was the search, the rest they bought (Youtube, blogger etc). I don't remmeber any service from google get real success otherthan their search engine. There are very few companies on the plant which can grow and still have in house innovation. Most of the big blues buy innovations from the market in the form of small or big accusations. The innovative minds get stuck in the organizational structures and don't get chance to do some thing new. These guys leave and do an other start-up for a second success. I had wrote a post before on innovation.

Inovations - Out of box thinking

An other addition to DECE

This will change the way we consume content. In the long run DVD/Blueray will disappear and the transport will be Internet for the video distribution.

An other addition to DECE

Cox to DECE

Cable Providers are going to be OTT

Cable Providers are going to be OTT, Comcast Provide their service to all broadband users

China overtakes Germany as biggest exporter

BEIJING – China overtook Germany as the world's top exporter after December exports jumped 17.7 percent for their first increase in 14 months, data showed Sunday, in another sign of China's rise as a global economic force.

Exports for the last month of 2009 were $130.7 billion, data from the General Administration of Customs showed. That raised total 2009 exports to $1.2 trillion, ahead of the 816 billion euros ($1.17 trillion) for Germany forecast by its foreign trade organization, BGA. more.....

Future of Digital Media over IP (Internet)

http://www.decellc.com/
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=186278

LOS ANGELES -- Today the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem LLC (DECE LLC), www.decellc.com, a coalition with support from every industry involved in digital entertainment, announced it has reached key milestones toward establishing the first open market for digital content distribution. In addition, DECE announced that 21 companies have joined the group which now includes 48 members across entertainment, software, hardware, retail, infrastructure and delivery.

The milestones announced today include:

• Agreement on a Common File Format, an open specification for digital entertainment, that will be used by all participating content providers, services and device manufacturers
• Vendor selection for and role of the Digital Rights Locker, a cloud-based authentication service and account management hub that allows consumers rights access to their digital entertainment
• Approval of five Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions that will be DECE-compatible

Full technical specifications will be available in the first half of 2010.