#ExcelPedroWave

I'm reading a novel by James A. Michener about the history of the Caribbean Sea, in which feature the adventures of the colonizers and, in Chapter 4, the Caribbean Sea is called the Spanish Lake because was been discovered by the Spanish, who planted their flag in all Central and South America and invented the New World, so much has changed in the last 500 years of American history, but the essence of patents remains the same but has changed hands.

Because of their wealth, the coast and the Caribbean islands were looting by English and French privateer that got Letter of Marque and Reprisal of their monarchs. A famous case was that of Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I as a reward for his services to the British crown.

The school of history has left us many examples of letters of marque "carte blanche" for the last 500 years that have evolved over the last 200 years and that is known among companies and governments of countries such as requests for invention privileges:

The last battle of a particular entrepreneur to gain the riches of the others began last summer from Paul Allen to sue Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL and eBay, among others, for violating its patents "in corso", stating that his inventions are the foundation of the Internet, but without reporting to the company that made him rich, as it is one of the Microsoft founders.

Experts say now is the online trading game, because it allows their products to recommend content to users in relation to their search and tastes, instead of trading gold, silver and spoils overseas.


This is the kind of trade in the XXI century pirates, surfing the Web to get your booty in the form of electronic money.


In a forthcoming article I'll review Paul Allen' patents relating to GUIs.

Traducción al español aquí.