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Open-source Advocate Attacks Patent Laws
News The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA ) has joined patent and copyright law as a tool to hobble the lively development environment that was behind the success of the Internet and Silicon Valley, Lessig said.
[August 30, 2001, 8:46]
German Government Opposes Software Patents
News The German Ministry of Economics and Technology has spoken out against the broadening of software patent laws within Europe, on the basis that it would stifle innovation and the open-source movement. The introduction of broader software patent laws...
[November 20, 2001, 13:23]
US Tech Firms Lock Horns Over Patent Law
News The differences in opinion played out during a Thursday hearing in the US House of Representatives Small Business Committee, which doesn't have the power to write patent laws but aimed to explore the small-business implications of Congress's...
[March 30, 2007, 8:58]
Venture-capital Firms Oppose US Patent Changes
News The differences in opinion played out during a hearing in Washington, DC last week in the US House of Representatives Small Business Committee, which doesn't have the power to write patent laws but aimed to explore the small-business implications...
[April 2, 2007, 11:36]
European Parliament Blocks Patent Liberalisation
News The proposal, which was included in a resolution concerning innovation policy, called for the "mutual recognition of patent laws in Member States". European software patents are difficult to enforce largely because of the differences between...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
Microsoft Loses Appeal In Office Patent Spat
Talkback That's why they are lobbying for US patent laws to be changed after 200 years ! Petition to Stop changing the Patent Laws. Microsoft and other big corporations call the inventor a TROLL because he is collecting money on his creation.
[June 19, 2006, 16:05]
McBride Reaches For Rhetoric In Linux Battle
News In an open letter posted on the SCO Web site Thursday, McBride argues that the General Public Licence (GPL) that underlies distribution of Linux, which is a Unix-derived operating system, is unconstitutional because it violates copyright and...
[December 8, 2003, 13:45]
EU Seeks 'legally Clever' Patent Definition
Talkback JURI asking IP lawyers what the laws should be is a catastrophic blow to the freedom of software developers (who will be the ones affected most by the laws). IP lawyers stand to gain most from software patent law, because there will be conflict...
[May 17, 2005, 17:28]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
Talkback Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, an earlier Science Fiction construct that aimed to rein in the potential conduct of a futuristic AI robot as rules that prohibit harm to come to humans. It introduces the newly proposed concept of the Ten...
[March 28, 2006, 6:26]
Patent Nonsense Revisited
Blog Comment The reason we have intellectual property laws in the first place (they're a recent invention - you won't find them in the 10 Commandments) is to encourage innovation by giving the inventors of ideas the option of striking an enforceable deal with...
[January 30, 2008, 19:18]
The Impetus For And Potential Of Alternative Mechanisms For The Protection Of Biotechnological Innovations
White Papers In the 1980s the US government took significant steps to accommodate patents on living organisms and their components by re-defining laws to allow for exclusive monopoly patents on biological products and processes.
[November 6, 2003, 23:02]
Judge Dismisses Antitrust Charges Against Intel
News Intel did not violate federal antitrust laws by withholding product information from Intergraph, the US District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, ruled on Monday in dismissing a lawsuit against the chip maker.
[March 14, 2000, 11:13]
Stallman: Software Patents Victimise Developers
News Their origins historically are completely separate; the laws were designed independently; they covered different areas of life and activities; the public policy issues they raise are completely unrelated.
[March 28, 2002, 10:40]
Intel To Pay In Chip Patent Dispute
News Intergraph originally filed suit in an Alabama federal court in November 1997, alleging Intel violated antitrust laws, infringed on Intergraph patents, and violated state laws. The patent claims in the original suit were also thrown out initially...
[April 16, 2002, 11:39]
US Report: Microsoft Plays Hardball
News In the claim, the company charges that federal copyright laws trump the state's antitrust allegations. The filing also is an attempt by Microsoft to consolidate the case by trying to get state claims tossed out on the basis that they violate...
[July 30, 1998, 15:38]
Chief Executives Called In Intel-Intergraph Case
News Intergraph originally filed suit in an Alabama federal court in November 1997, alleging Intel violated antitrust laws, infringed on Intergraph patents, and violated state laws. A federal court has asked the chief executive officers of Intergraph...
[September 20, 2002, 7:48]
Patent Restart Request Ratified
Talkback Hugo Lueders and the EC should consider the following: if the role of a strong IP as an engine of European growth is that important for the EU to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010 then.if they don't...
[February 17, 2005, 21:20]
Patent Directive 'could Halt Linux Development'
News Jeremy Mark Malcolm, an information technology lawyer specialising in Internet-related law and speaker at the forthcoming Linux conference in Canberra, told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia that patent laws could damage the European open...
[March 1, 2005, 14:25]
Patent Reform Case Falls
News While the two Silicon Valley firms may have little interest in the mechanics of drive shaft manufacturing, they share a keen interest in the mechanics of patent laws. The justices on Tuesday refused to hear a hotly contested patent case involving...
[January 20, 2005, 9:30]
Patent Fears Haunt Developers Down Under
News Indicative of a growing interest in patents, attendees swelled the forum -- hosted by legal firm Baker & McKenzie and open source advocacy groups Linux Australia and Open Source Industry Australia -- to hear speakers discuss the many vagaries of...
[November 4, 2004, 10:43]
