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UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading
News A UK company claims to own a number of patents that relate to the process of downloading software and virus-protection updates over the Internet. We have various patents that cover various ways of downloading software updates over the Web...
[June 14, 2004, 17:40]
Supreme Court to hear case on 'obviousness' of patents
News Software and hardware makers have long complained that a glut of so-called junk patents threatens to disrupt the way they do business. The open-source and free-software communities are concerned that the practice of publishing their code and...
[November 28, 2006, 10:02]
Google hit by GraphOn patent suit
News Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites and YouTube services violate GraphOn's patents. GraphOn, based in Santa Cruz, California, acquired the patents through its...
[August 18, 2008, 12:34]
Interesting...
Talkback “While there is no compromise between the two extremes, some have argued that what is needed is a sort of halfway house that recognises the needs of both sides.but unless granting software patents (even only 'high quality' and/or shorter?
[February 24, 2009, 13:59]
IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
Talkback It seems that either he does not understand the implications of software patents, or he does, but ignores them since it's the large corporations that will benefit from software patents that are paying his wages.
[January 12, 2005, 8:49]
Patent Impending
News The example may sound extreme, but it is an indication of what many critics fear will come to pass if proposed European Union legislation on software patents -- coming up for a vote before the European Parliament in next week -- becomes law in its...
[August 27, 2003, 9:34]
Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
Talkback Because by now those nations understand what kind of risks software patents put on an economy and thus they'll want to get rid of the risks rather then risking someone else dumping their risks before they do.
[August 1, 2005, 23:15]
Microsoft's open source mind shift
News In the case of Web services, having a pledge not to assert patents around these protocols — which are the communications foundation of Vista, the next version of Windows due early next year — helps drive adoption of those standards in the...
[September 15, 2006, 14:20]
UK patent firm details ambitious claim
News British Technology Group (BTG) is armed with six patents in its battle with a number of unnamed technology companies over the claim that it has patented the process of downloading software updates over the Internet.
[June 21, 2004, 17:45]
Microsoft loses file-system patent claims
News The US Patent Office has rejected two Microsoft patents over the FAT file format, but the software maker said on Wednesday it's not ready to give up its battle to protect the widely used method for storing data.
[October 6, 2005, 9:05]
Verizon sues Vonage for VoIP patent infringement
Talkback Getting sick of these "two lawyers and a dog" companies trying to soak hard working developers for cash using trivial patents.even the larger guys are turning on each other now.very very sad as usual the only winners are the leeches the poor old...
[July 12, 2006, 21:32]
Kodak wins Java patent case
News The case has outraged some opponents of software patents, who claim it is a textbook example of why software should not be patentable. Software patents will destroy the industry in the US," wrote Jones on Sunday.
[October 4, 2004, 12:25]
Sun's patent settlement sparks controversy
Talkback The paragraph in defence of software patents; It's really quite sickening what software patents have done to an industry which was once led by brilliant, innovative entrepreneurs but is now led by lawyers and accountants, more determined to...
[October 14, 2004, 9:04]
Bezos calls for patent reform
News I now believe it's possible that the current rules governing business method and software patents could end up harming all of us -- including Amazon.com and its many shareholders, the folks to whom I have a strong responsibility, not only ethical...
[March 10, 2000, 14:34]
Novell vows to use its patents to defend open-source
Talkback The only way to defend free software (and non-free software) against software patents is keeping them illegal, or illegalising them were they exist. I mean all software patents not just one now and another one tomorrow.
[October 14, 2004, 9:52]
EU vote 'widens loopholes' in software patent directive
Talkback Me and i know pleny of others whill shut down there business all because software patents.jobs is affected direct. Some recent researched did find that in germany was 80% against software patents. We don't want software patents.
[June 22, 2005, 5:13]
Linux users could face European patent threat
News Linux users in the UK could face a greater threat from Microsoft than previously thought, but experts agree that British open-source users are in far less danger than US users from Microsoft's claim that open-source software infringes its patents.
[September 19, 2007, 17:34]
Wine development stifled by software patent
Talkback Sure it sucks, and in Europe the software patents should never be allowed. Well, according to one article I read online the World Trade Organization is coercing countries like India to allow software patents.
[May 14, 2005, 15:33]
Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood
Leader The only reason the directive has got this far is that the proponents -- interested parties all, including big software businesses and the various European patent offices -- have managed to co-opt the language of patents with their Newspeak so as...
[January 21, 2005, 11:30]
Linux gurus congratulate BT on patent nonsense
News The EuroLinux consortium say BT should complimented for "providing the world with a brilliant proof of the absurdity of software patents". Recent rulings at the European Patent Office show that it is already possible to get patents for services...
[June 22, 2000, 10:35]
