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Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
News At the end of a raucous meeting in London on Tuesday, the minister for science and innovation, Lord Sainsbury, and the UK Patent Office agreed to consult further on the pivotal issue of what should constitute 'technical contribution' when used to...
[December 14, 2004, 16:00]
Wine development stifled by software patent
Talkback The UK patent office denies the patent directive is restrictive. Do they understand software or is it they are just influenced by govenrment/large companies?
[May 13, 2005, 12:45]
UK patents on the increase
News Overall, the number of new UK patents increased by 8 percent in 2004 to 10,541, according to figures released by the Patent Office. The importance of HP's research division, which took a hit earlier this month when it lost one of its main...
[August 9, 2005, 16:25]
Small firms 'failed' by patent law
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) also said there was a need for the patent system to be reformed because of the complexity of patent law. Small businesses are being failed by the patent system, according to Andrew Gowers, the man leading an independent...
[March 2, 2006, 16:45]
Funds firm faces patent suit
Talkback So, why is the UK Patent Office gving out software patents? I'm confused. I did't think we had software patents in this country. I thought that was what the European Software (shaft the SMB's) Directive was all about.
[April 19, 2005, 17:23]
Linux users could face European patent threat
News For obvious reasons, and not just those relating to cost, most big companies nowadays much prefer to prosecute their patent applications before the European Patent Office rather than the UK Intellectual Property Office.
[September 19, 2007, 17:34]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog Comment Perhaps this is a good time for us to all do some homework and visit the Patent Office's web site.http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ Thanks Roger - very level headed of you. AdrianB
[November 10, 2008, 6:20]
Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners
News The meeting, which has been organised by the UK Patent Office (UKPO), will include speeches from DTI Minister Lord David Sainsbury of Turville, UKPO executives and a question and answer session. A meeting on the proposed Computer Implemented...
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
Microsoft defends its patents
News The patent, which was granted by the US patent office on Tuesday, is for XML serialisation and deserialisation — the conversion of a programming object into an XML file and vice versa. Software developer Roderick Klein laid the blame at the door of...
[May 27, 2005, 13:50]
IT patent issues simplified for businesses
News At a recent conference on the future of the European patent system, Ron Marchant, former chief executive of the UK Patent Office, said further simplifications are critical for Europe's economic future.
[December 14, 2007, 15:28]
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The UKUUG is also folding in many other complaints about Office Open XML (OOXML), such as unresolved patent issues and a lack of completion in the specification's documentation, and is calling for the High Court of Justice to force a judicial...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
Another judge rules for program patentability
News Although the European Patent Organisation (EPO) had granted Symbian the patent, the same application was turned down in July last year by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) on the basis that computer programs cannot be patented because...
[March 25, 2008, 15:41]
Developers angry over software patent 'evasion'
News But opponents of software patents who were given the opportunity to question the UK Patent Office (UKPO) on the issues around patents said little was actually clarified. Our concerns haven't been addressed and the language being used by the Patent...
[December 15, 2004, 11:15]
Wine development stifled by software patent
News Despite the growing number of examples of open source projects needing to rewrite code to avoid violating patents, the UK patent office has denied that the European software patent directive, which is due to go to parliament for a second reading...
[May 13, 2005, 10:05]
UK launches 'Euro-DMCA' debate
News Respondents (should) bear in mind that this consultation is not about whether the requirements of the Directive itself are appropriate," the Patent Office said in an explanatory note. Comments should be emailed to copyright@patent.gov.uk.
[August 12, 2002, 11:29]
Schwartz maintains patent commitment
News The head of the US Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged in 2002 that the office hadn't been selective enough in that area. Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz, who speaks often of innovation in sales methods and not just technology, is...
[October 1, 2004, 9:20]
Wiki site involves public in patent process
News Patent Office representatives have responded positively to the site, Johnson said. But even the US Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged recently that such judgments are no small feat. The US patent system is supposed to ensure that the latest...
[August 29, 2006, 15:00]
EU to throw patents in with the bath water
News Peter Hayward, a director at the UK Patent Office (UKPO), also rejected this fear at a meeting at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) earlier this week. Some have expressed concerns about "patent war" breaking out, where patents are used by...
[December 17, 2004, 16:15]
Microsoft criticised for IP address configuration patent
News Ravicher claims that a "significant number" of prior art references were not disclosed to the US patent office when Microsoft applied for the patent. Because Microsoft has allegedly not disclosed the prior art references to the patent office, the...
[March 23, 2005, 15:20]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
News European politicians representing parties including the UK's Liberal Democrats have been accused of acting against party policy in a recent vote over the software patent directive. Hartmut Pilch, the president of Foundation for a Free Information...
[June 23, 2005, 16:00]
