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Patent suit could hurt eBay
News EBay, one of the biggest success stories on the Web, is being threatened with a patent infringement lawsuit that could force it to modify its winning auction format. Even if they had, patent applications at the time were largely kept secret until...
[September 5, 2002, 13:28]
Patent directive slammed at UKPO workshop
News A group of software developers and patent lawyers agreed on Thursday at a UK Patent Office (UKPO) workshop that the definition of technical contribution in the proposed European software patent directive is wrong.
[April 8, 2005, 14:30]
Patent absurdities are plain unsporting
Talkback The idea of these "cards" is very good, but really if the patent system worked and was not deluged with patents then most of the problems would not be there. Another group of patent professionals and another gang of expensive lawers?
[July 21, 2005, 11:40]
Patent absurdities are plain unsporting
Talkback Something needs to be done about patent offices, patent officers, patent laws, patent lobbiests and politicians who always seem to find new lame excuses to allow yet another patent or give it more powers.
[May 29, 2005, 20:29]
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 ruling forces Office upgrades
Talkback Hey, I hate Microsoft as much as anyone, but here they're just the victims of the completely broken US patent system. Software patents are evil. Right now, they're hurting Microsoft. Tomorrow, they can be used to stifle anyone.
[January 31, 2006, 16:19]
Patent nonsense revisited
Blog Comment One aspect of patent law is that patent holders are required to license their patents fairly - you can't get a patent and then refuse to let anyone use it, or charge unreasonable amounts to your enemies.
[January 30, 2008, 19:18]
EP: 'Patent directive is flawed'
Talkback Drop the entire Patent directive because whatever will be left of it will get exploited and abused to the max. If there must be a Patent directive then make a directive that invalidates all already granted software patents along with dismantling...
[May 29, 2005, 20:56]
Patent fight holds up Web standards
News That has patent and royalty critics up in arms, helping mire a committee searching for consensus in an impasse earlier this month. The W3C is hardly alone among standards groups in struggling with the patent question.
[July 11, 2002, 14:01]
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 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]
"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 reform
Talkback please see http://www.piausa.org/ for a different/opposing view on patent reform
[October 14, 2008, 14:49]
Patent inspectors strike over quality fears
News Employees at the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich and Berlin held a strike on Tuesday against proposed changes to the patent assessment process, which they claim will reduce patent quality. Management has proposed a change to the patent...
[May 10, 2006, 16:40]
Patent absurdities are plain unsporting
Talkback Microsoft is trying to reveal the stupidity of U.S.patent system, I suppose.
[May 30, 2005, 23:06]
Patent ruling forces Office upgrades
News The move follows a verdict last year by a jury in California.which found in favor of a patent claim by Guatemalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado. Microsoft was ordered to pay $8.9 million (£5 million) in damages for infringing Amado's 1994 patent.
[January 31, 2006, 8:25]
Patent absurdities are plain unsporting
Talkback The responsibility for ascertaining whether a patent should be granted lies with the patent office, not with individual inventors. The fact is that Patent Offices worldwide (well, the UKPO, EPO and USPTO at least) are just not doing their job...
[May 31, 2005, 20:43]
Patent amnesty for Java phone updates
News But more and more large patent holders are trying it, said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT. He said the OSGI patent pledge will make it easier for developers to work with the participating vendors.
[July 26, 2006, 10:25]
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 wants debate on software directive
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) announced on Friday that it will hold a series of public workshops across the UK to discuss the proposed software patent directive. The workshops will examine the definition of a 'technical contribution' when deciding...
[February 4, 2005, 11:55]
