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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 '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]
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 18, 2007, 17:03]
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
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]
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
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 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]
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]
Developers and mimes protest software patents
News Several hundred demonstrators assembled in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels on Wednesday to protest a software-patents directive that critics say would wreak havoc on Europe's software industry.
[August 28, 2003, 15:35]
Oracle licenses 'open' patents
News Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favours the incumbent proprietary software powers.
[March 27, 2007, 9:04]
Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood
Talkback Patents can't bring innovation as sooner or later every possible part of a computer will be patented by someone. Bull. Thus eliminating the need for competition.
[January 21, 2005, 12:24]
Software patents campaigners honoured
Talkback Users are affected more than developers by sw patents.
[September 29, 2005, 0:12]
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]
EFF sets its sights on 'frivolous' IT patents
Talkback Patents are supposed to cover novel technical inventions that would be non-obvious to someone knowledgable in that area of technology. Most patents granted today are only granted because the patent office doesn't have the skill or the time to...
[July 13, 2004, 8:14]
Opera and MySQL battle against software patents
News Last week, the European Parliament's legal affairs committee narrowly voted in favour of the computer-implemented inventions directive, which many say will allow software patents. According to Mueller, the five companies joined the battle because...
[June 28, 2005, 16:30]
EU to throw patents in with the bath water
Talkback It's a heck of a lot easier to challenge patents if you have a law. Steve Probert says: If any have slipped through it should be easier to invalidate them using [the directive]. I fail to see how it will become easier to invalidate them with a...
[December 17, 2004, 19:25]
UK companies see perils in software patents
Talkback I think we should say to Tony blair, "See, we don't want software patents and we are not going to let you get away with it!
[December 16, 2004, 9:16]
Rambus fires missive at nVidia over patents
News We have received correspondence from Rambus indicating that it believes our products infringe certain patents held by Rambus and requesting that we agree to certain licensing terms, including royalty payments," nVidia said in its quarterly 10-Q...
[December 12, 2000, 12:10]
