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Patents A Virtue For IBM
News IBM will announce on Monday that it was the top recipient of US patents in 2002. Big Blue was awarded 3,288 patents during the past year, making it the top recipient among private sector companies for the 10th year in a row, according to the US...
[January 13, 2003, 7:44]
Patents Are No Place For Secrets
Leader If you build something that shows that, you're violating our patents". It should not be possible to use patent law to gag legitimate research in that interest: patents are intended to put public interest and the open dissemination of information...
[March 1, 2007, 8:14]
"Patents Are A Currency". (Courtois - MS)
Talkback While not being clear of the point being made in PH's last paragraph, Patents and Patent Experts are likely too costly for many SME's whose budget and focus is not quite the same as Big Businesses. We try as a company to evolve the licensing of...
[November 30, 2006, 13:23]
Patents 'biggest Threat' To Linux - Torvalds
Talkback It has nothing to do with 'patents'. What Linus was referring to AFAIK was stuff like EOLAS and the whole "software patents" debate going on about whether algorithms themselves can be patented. SCO's issue is a 'contract' violation with IBM.
[March 23, 2004, 10:30]
Microsoft's EP(UK) Patents
Talkback I agree that the area of software patents is difficult. The article is, however, misleading not merely because of the inaccurate count of patents, but because it also quotes a "leading lawyer" as saying that Microsoft's patents do not cover the UK.
[September 19, 2007, 9:12]
Patents 'biggest Threat' To Linux - Torvalds
Talkback Patents and copyrights have become the main weapons used to prevent other people from sharing in the benfits of technologies without paying a hefty premium to some supposed “owner”. The lawyers have become more creative than the engineers: one...
[March 23, 2004, 10:53]
Patents Could Show Google's Wireless Intent
Talkback Surely this alteration of data content is either classed as Hacking or as normal usage so where do patents come into it. Lucky some enterprising US citizen hasn't patented talking at different frequencies in a sequence.
[March 28, 2006, 11:29]
Patents 'biggest Threat' To Linux - Torvalds
News Linux creator Linus Torvalds says that nontechnical issues such as software patents constitute the single biggest threat to the future success of the open-source OS. The things that tend to worry me are software patents.
[March 23, 2004, 9:20]
Patents Directive Wins European Parliament OK
News The Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions was presented as a technical adjustment to harmonise the way patents are treated by national governments across the EU. It seeks to correct a current problem whereby patents may...
[September 24, 2003, 18:05]
Patents Crucial In Search Battle
News With respect to AltaVista, Overture owns some of the oldest patents on Web search. Overture insiders say that when the company bought AltaVista and the Web search assets of Fast Search & Transfer, patents played a big role in the decisions.
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
IBM Sells LCD Patents
News LCD supplier AU Optronics has signed an agreement with IBM to acquire 170 global patents for TFT LCD technology. The patents cover driving circuits, backlights, RGB filters, and TFT array processes amongst other technologies, according to the...
[July 4, 2005, 18:35]
CA Brings More Patents To The Open Source Party
News Computer Associates (CA) will give open source projects access to 14 of its patents, the company said Wednesday as it also announced a technology cross-licensing deal with IBM. The US patents, which include their equivalents in other countries...
[September 8, 2005, 8:55]
Software Patents Campaigners Honoured
Talkback The CII directive is dead, but now the focus must move on the the European Patents Project. We must ensure that software patents do not sneak in through this measure. The anti-software patents movement (of which I am a member, both FFII and...
[September 28, 2005, 21:16]
Cisco Sues Huawei Over Patents
News Cisco Systems has filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies, claiming the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker infringed on its patents and illegally copied source code. Cisco's suit, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of...
[January 23, 2003, 15:08]
Software Patents Are Used To Enforce Monopolies
Talkback But software patents enable a person (normally a large corporate with deep pockets) to claim rights to *the idea* of something that they haven't even implemented. Patents are legal tools used to enforce monopolies.
[October 12, 2007, 23:09]
Liberal Democrats Accused Of Double Standards Over Patents
Talkback The EP is out of order by even considering sw patents at this point. The EC could not have included the CIID as an A-item, as it claims. Due to objections by representatives of member states. The EP needs to send this back to the EC until such time...
[June 27, 2005, 14:04]
Liberal Democrats Accused Of Double Standards Over Patents
News Since 2000 the German party (the FDP) have confirmed over and over again that their official position is to prevent software patents and to support the line of Rocard," said Pilch. He pointed out that this appears to be in contradiction to the UK...
[June 23, 2005, 16:00]
One Year Ago: Intel Shocked By Digital Patents Case
News Intel responded this morning to Digital's shock announcement that it is taking the chip giant to the courts for infringing the latter's patents in Pentium and later processors. Our initial reaction is we were surprised by the lawsuit, particularly...
[May 14, 1998, 6:00]
Microsoft To Publish APIs And List Patents
News Microsoft has released details of how it will comply with the 2004 EU antitrust decision, including publishing "all" details of application-programming interfaces for its high-volume products, listing its software patents that cover...
[February 21, 2008, 16:06]
EU Software Patents: The Lesson Of Victory
Leader The Computer Implemented Inventions Directive -- the software patents law to you and me -- has been defeated at the very last minute. It started life 10 years ago as a reasonable attempt to clarify patent law, with broad agreement that there was no...
[February 3, 2005, 12:20]
