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TQP (Telequip Corporation) has sued eBay and Apple over its patent for changing keys during encrypted data transmissions. This follows similar suits against several US banks.
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After a five-and-a-half-year fight, Google and its attorneys have managed to convince federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company's iconic home page. We always thought the page was brain-dead simple, but apparently it's an innovative "graphical user interface."
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Software patents were rejected in Europe, but amid turmoil, the EPO is selling out to corporations. It does not even care about a democracy, nor does it pay attention to Spanish citizens for example. The EPO continues walking down the wrong path. A new brochure titled “Patents for software?” has just been release by the EPO. Software patents are not legitimate in the EU. So why even produce such a brochure with a question mark as an excuse?
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by:  zoobab 1244543218|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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Over the next few months, significant decisions will be made, both in the US and in Europe, concerning the patentability of software and of business practices, decisions which are already casting shadows. Concluding at the end of April, the Enlarged Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPA) is conducting a consultation about the patentability of computer programs. The board hopes that the consultation will help with the processing of the referral by EPA President Alison Brimelow to clarify open questions concerning the controversial interpretations of the European Patent Convention (EPC). The questions refer to Article 52, which states that "programs for computers as such" are not to be regarded as inventions and are therefore excluded from patentability.
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Among its top recommendations, the new report calls for turning the agency into a government-run corporate entity so it can have the freedom to set new, higher fee levels. It also calls for President-elect Obama to appoint new leaders to the agency with experience litigating patents and running large organizations with conflicting user groups.
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In Apple's latest legal battle, a wireless-entertainment company has sued the computer-maker for patent infringement, according to InformationWeek. EZ4Media submitted the filings to a Louisiana court, claiming that Apple TV, Airport Express, and even Mac computers infringe on a number of its patents. The company had originally purchased the patents from Universal Electronics (UEI) in March and alleges that three UEI employees left to work for Apple approximately a year before the launch of Apple TV.
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An interesting take on patents in teh US economy: "The patent bubble hasn't burst, but judging by last week's Wall Street Journal story on Intellectual Ventures, it's getting pretty big."
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by: ggiedke 1222607732|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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An horrible report of the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is currently being discussed in the European Parliament by the Trade Committee of the European Parliament, led by the liberal italian MEP Susta (ALDE). This extreme report gives a white card to the Commission to negotiate criminal sanctions to the French Presidency and Sarkozy to negotiate criminal sanctions for filesharers with the US. And get competence for criminal sanctions at the EU level by the back door. The Tweede Kamer motion about criminal competences, remember?
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by: zoobab 1219788475|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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European Commission has published a communication which clearly mentions the possibility to legalise software patents in Europe with the caselaw of a specialized patent court.
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The shareholders of Symbian announced their intent to unify their various mobile software offerings and to create one open mobile platform. The declared intent is to make the whole platform available under the free Eclipse Pubblic License 1.0 within the next two years.
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Patent Retriever - http://www.patentretriever.com
This site allows users to download patents for free in PDF format without user registration and does not modify the pages on the PDF (e.g. does not insert logos etc)
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by:  johnsegal 1213330252|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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In order to find out what your members of European Parliament are doing, you need some special software. Europe by Satellite (EBS) is only for those people who have the right software.
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by: zoobab 1211563002|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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The big industry, gathered inside a club named Trans Antlantic Business Dialogue, is lobbying the European Commission (McCreevy and Verheugen) and the American Department of Commerce (Carlos M. Gutierrez) to sign a bilateral treaty on harmonisation of patent law between the developed countries, in order to cast in an international agreement the legalisation of software patents.
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11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead
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by: ggiedke 1206460493|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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Some of the fundamental basics any software engineer should know when thinking about how damaging the patent system is to his/her job.
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Summary of recent discussions in the EU concerning the centralized patent jurisdiction.
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by: ggiedke 1195919946|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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One-Click patentable after (not even cosmetic) modifications?
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by: ggiedke 1195762347|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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Viral marketing or outsourcing? Adobe invents new terminology.
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by:  podmokle 1195576614|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover |
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The Free Software Foundation is warning on its frontpage that the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement is requiring a mandate for software patents. Does someone has a copy of the text?
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A job offer by the EPO recruiting software patent examiners appeared recently on Monster.be. But the EPO don't grant software patents.
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