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Public Meeting On Patents Excludes Anti-patent Campaigners
News A meeting on the proposed Computer Implemented Inventions Directive is due to be held next Tuesday at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), but many anti-patent campaigners are angry because they have not been invited.
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
Regulator Asked To Revoke Windows Patent
News The Public Patent Foundation on Thursday asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to revoke one of Microsoft's patents related to the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, the older of two main systems used by Windows to store files.
[April 19, 2004, 13:00]
US Govt To Reconsider Microsoft Patent
News In April, the Public Patent Foundation asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to revoke a patent that covers the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system -- the older of two main systems used by Windows to store files.
[June 14, 2004, 8:55]
JPEG Patent Under The Microscope Again
News The Patent Office granted the review at the request of the Public Patent Foundation, which says it is a not-for-profit legal services foundation interested in protecting the public against harm caused by patents.
[February 3, 2006, 8:50]
Linux 'infringes 283 Patents' - Insurance Group
News Dan Ravicher, founder and executive director of the Public Patent Foundation, conducted the analysis for Open Source Risk Management. In Ravisher's opinion, 283 patents could be a basis for Linux infringement lawsuits, but that leaves open the...
[August 2, 2004, 8:40]
Microsoft Loses File-system Patent Claims
News The rejections come after a re-examination of the patents was sought by the Public Patent Foundation, which argued that they were invalid because there was prior art, that is, evidence that others had done similar work before Microsoft's patent...
[October 6, 2005, 9:05]
GPL Clamps Down On Patent Deals
News The third draft of General Public License version 3 includes provisions to toughen the licence's stance on patent deals between software providers. Modifications were made since the second draft, which came out in July 2006, to address a patent...
[March 29, 2007, 9:18]
Stallman Touts GPLv3 Provisions
News The right to remove digital rights management controls and patent protection for free and open-source software users is an important provision in the General Public License version 3, says the Free Software Foundation.
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
RTLinux Patent Accused Of Violating GPL
News In a statement issued on Friday, the Foundation criticised FSMLabs for the surprise grant of a software patent for RTLinux last year, saying that not only are such patents wrong in general, but they also conflict with the GPL, which governs the...
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
Microsoft Wins Final FAT Battle
News The Patent Office agreed to re-examine two patents covering the FAT system at the request of a little-known public interest group called the Public Patent Foundation in April 2004. Public Patent Foundation President Dan Ravicher said his...
[January 11, 2006, 14:35]
Patent Blow For Microsoft As FAT Is Rejected
News The little-known Public Patent Foundation had been leading the push for a re-examination. The Patent Office has simply confirmed what we already knew for some time now -- Microsoft's FAT patent is bogus," Daniel Ravicher, executive director of the...
[October 1, 2004, 11:45]
Next-to-last GPL 3 Draft Due This Week
News One reason for the delay was the announcement of a patent deal between Microsoft and Linux seller Novell under which Microsoft agreed not to sue Novell Linux customers for patent infringement. We felt it was important to fully discuss a few...
[March 27, 2007, 9:14]
Open Source Defence Centre Launched
News Legal issues surrounding copyright and patent law are getting thornier in the open source realm. In addition, an HP executive warned in a 2002 memo that Microsoft planned a patent-based attack on open source software.
[February 1, 2005, 8:45]
Linux Lab Urges GPL Clarification
News Moglen also has downplayed concerns from HP that the current draft of GPLv3 has unacceptable patent provisions. Last week, he published a critique of an OSDL project to give open source programming some clout in the patent realm, saying it could be...
[September 21, 2006, 10:35]
HP May Fork The GPL
News A proposed patent provision in a revamped General Public License isn't sitting well at Hewlett-Packard, raising concerns that two competing versions of the licence could survive. Hewlett-Packard said it would be content with the patent portion of...
[August 3, 2006, 9:05]
GPL 3 Debate Begins In Earnest
News The Free Software Foundation on Monday released the first public discussion draft of the GPL version three, shedding light on proposed reforms to the document's patent and digital rights management provisions.
[January 17, 2006, 8:50]
Free Software's White Knight
News He is also a director of the Public Patent Foundation, an organisation that aims to limit the abuse of the United States patent system. As well as your role at the Law Center, you also sit on the Public Patent Foundation's board of directors.
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
Free Software Foundation Releases GPLv3
News Under the GPLv3, the foundation argues that all GPL software users will benefit from the Novell-Microsoft deal and others like it: "If you arrange to provide patent protection to some of the people who get the software from you, that protection is...
[July 2, 2007, 8:47]
GPLv3 May Not Bind Microsoft
News To combat this strategy, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), authors of the General Public License (GPL) (the open-source licence under which most future open-source applications are expected to be distributed), have included new provisions in the...
[July 25, 2007, 9:40]
GPLv3 Draft A Week Away
News The new version is expected to address a host of technology issues that have arisen in the last 15 years, including patent issues and software running on a remote server. To the extent that the movement has identified technological or legal...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
