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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 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 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 '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 18, 2007, 17:03]
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 '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 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 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]
Irish developers protest against patents
Talkback Back in 1991, Bill said, in an internal memo: 'If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.A future start-up with no...
[March 18, 2005, 9:05]
HP sues Acer again over patents
News Less than a month after it sued rival PC manufacturer Acer over five alleged patent infringements, HP has added another four patents to the list. On 27 March, HP filed a complaint against Acer in a Texan court, which claimed that Acer was...
[April 23, 2007, 15:52]
EC slipping software patents 'through backdoor'
News The European Commission is attempting to legalise software patents through the introduction of the EU Community Patent, according to an anti-patent campaigner. Florian Mueller, the founder of nosoftwarepatents.com, warned that if the Community...
[October 6, 2005, 17:40]
Microsoft may become 'major opponent of patents'
News Microsoft has been a major proponent of software patents, securing some 3,000 over the last 20 years but open source experts now claim that far from profiting from the system, the software maker may actually become a victim.
[October 6, 2005, 13:35]
Six patents key to case against Apple and Microsoft
Talkback Shows the stupidity of allowing patents which don't have a physical invention. I read most of these ideas in Sci FI books in the 60's
[July 22, 2004, 12:55]
Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood
Leader The only reason the directive has got this far is that the proponents -- interested parties all, including big software businesses and the various European patent offices -- have managed to co-opt the language of patents with their Newspeak so as...
[January 21, 2005, 11:30]
Group aims to defend Linux from bad patents
News A group has been formed to help protect Linux from being undermined by poor-quality software patents. Linux Defenders, launched on Monday, aims to enlist the developer community's help in finding 'prior art' related to patents affecting open-source...
[February 4, 2009, 17:02]
Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood
Talkback Software-"Patents are grantet" in EU already - right. Simon Gentry: But they are not enforcrd. They cannot.
[January 26, 2005, 18:09]
Red Hat: Software patents slow innovation
News Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday. In the last 30 years, we've continued to see patents really being a challenge to innovation. There is very little empirical evidence that builds a...
[May 23, 2007, 9:53]
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]
