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Patent could give AOL an edge in messaging
News America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software. The patent (6449344), originally filed in 1997, and granted in September this year, gives AOL instant messaging subsidiary ICQ...
[December 18, 2002, 9:18]
Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Talkback The guy is a patent lawyer, he HOPES there are patent problems with Linux. On the upside, even if someone finds a way to win a bogus patent suit, SCO's attempt to take on the entire Linux world (and eventually the entire software world) will...
[March 1, 2005, 19:49]
"Patent agreement"
Talkback I would like to point out that the so-called patent agreement does not say that Micro$oft and Novell will not sue EACH OTHER (a violation of the GPL), it states that neither company will sue the other's customers.
[February 20, 2007, 14:38]
Patent restart request ratified
News The European Parliament's request for the software patent directive to be started from scratch was ratified by senior members of the Parliament on Thursday, but campaigners from both sides are split on what will happen next.
[February 17, 2005, 14:50]
Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Talkback Do you guys understand the difference between a patent and copyrighted code? Linux, I'm sure, does infringe on patent, by the mere fact that patents on obvious ways of doing things are stupid. There's a patent for Amazon to have one-click buying...
[March 1, 2005, 20:06]
Patent critics search for prior art
News The Web community is rummaging desperately through dusty technology archives, in a bid to overturn a sweeping patent verdict that could force major changes on the Internet's most popular software products.
[November 3, 2003, 11:25]
Patent directive slammed at UKPO workshop
Talkback The patents directive will not have the benefitial effects that the Patent Office and the EU Commission think it will have. Only large companies can afford to play the patent game. Whatever the outcome of a case the only winners will be the lawyers...
[April 18, 2005, 22:22]
Patent inspectors strike over quality fears
Talkback It's obvious that the whole patent thingy process is under grand scale manipulation across the board and from all sites and angles. Some huge powers really want to change things to their benefit and plenty of clueless decision makers around to help...
[May 10, 2006, 22:55]
Patent defeat for Microsoft and Autodesk
News A federal judge in Texas has delivered a setback to Microsoft and Autodesk in their patent infringement battle with product activation start-up Z4 Technologies. US District Judge Leonard Davis turned down the software makers' request for a new...
[August 24, 2006, 9:20]
Patent office email bid to attract public comments
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has set up a facility to make it easier for people to comment on patent applications. Members of the public will now be able to comment on pending patents by email, rather than needing to contact the patent office by...
[June 3, 2005, 17:55]
Patent activists protest in Brussels
Talkback Before I became aware of the software patent issue in Europe, I was pro-european integration, and saw euro sceptics as small minded xenophobes. However, now having learnt that the European Council & Commission do not have listen to the...
[February 18, 2005, 14:31]
Patent directive 'back on EU agenda'
Talkback Many national parliaments have spoken against this Patent directive.Duch, Polish, German) This will only aliënatie Europeans from their Parliament. Why should this be decided on a EU Council Agriculture and Fishery meeting?
[January 21, 2005, 14:33]
Patent Impending
News Richard Stallman, the well-known Free Software guru, once compared developing software to writing a symphony -- with the difference that if there were a musical patent office, Beethoven would have found himself out of work.
[August 27, 2003, 9:34]
Patent system needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'
News A public policy group has called on the US patent office to make more use of the Internet when searching for prior art. It also called on the US Patent Office to improve the way it searches for evidence that a patent shouldn't be granted because it...
[April 21, 2006, 13:20]
Patent directive adoption just days away
Talkback Very interesting article: http://news.com.com/The+open-source+patent+conundrum/2010-1071_3-5557340.html also read the reader comments) It's more about those with patents versus those without (e.g.your company having a website which breaks at...
[February 1, 2005, 20:09]
Patent ruling creates ripples on Net
News SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, has won a ruling in its patent case against Bertelsmann subsidiaries that could have wide-reaching effects on the business of Net music and video downloads.
[November 4, 2003, 14:20]
Patent and event reignite iPhone rumours
News A newly published Apple patent application has reignited rumours of the almost mythical "iPhone", on the eve of a press event in San Francisco. Last week the US Patent and Trademark office published a patent application that Apple made in March...
[September 11, 2006, 13:35]
Patent activists protest in Brussels
News The 300 demonstrators walked past the buildings of the main EU bodies involved in the software patent directive -- the EU Council, the European Commission (EC) and the European Parliament (EP). The demonstration in Brussels was timed to coincide...
[February 18, 2005, 12:15]
Patent loss creates pro-Microsoft alliances
News To some competitors and partners who have long been chafed by Microsoft's dominance, the verdict in the patent infringement lawsuit by one-man software company Eolas may initially have seemed an overdue victory -- and one that achieved what the US...
[September 26, 2003, 10:25]
Patent company takes on Wi-Fi industry
News A "technology licensing" company called Wi-LAN has sued 22 of the biggest names in wireless networking over alleged patent infringements. Wi-LAN has successfully negotiated patent licensing deals with a number of companies covering a broad range of...
[November 2, 2007, 9:45]
