Patent System
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The warning sound of TomTom
Insight commentary Microsoft's court case and trade commission claims against TomTom are perfect examples of how power, perverts process.
Tags: Patents, Open source, Protocols and platforms, Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft MS-DOS, TomTom, operating system, computer, software
Ex-Microsoft CTO claims patent 'problem' is myth
News Nathan Myhrvold, now CEO of a patent-licensing firm, says there's no reason to worry about the U.S. patent system.
Tags: Legal, Corporate law, Copyright, Patents
Google, Cisco fail to win patent reform bid
News Companies couldn't convince Supreme Court to hear a case they argue is key to preserving a "balanced" patent system.
Tags: Patents
Internet watchdog challenges VoIP patent
News The civil liberties group says it has found a prior patent and reference material to invalidate a bogus voice over Internet Protocol patent.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Patents, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Phone, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent system, Patents, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News Redmond wants to see a single world patent body established to "promote innovation, enrich knowledge, and encourage competition".
Tags: Business applications, Patents, Patent, Innovation, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Texas, Free Software Foundation, Patents, XML
EU plans more funding for tech research
News The European Commission calls for a large increase in tech R&D funding over the next decade, and has reiterated its call for a single European patent system.
Tags: R&D, European Union, Information And Communication Technology, Europe, economic performance, intellectual-property strategy, intellectual property, member state, strategy, commission
Patent Office chief endorses legal reform
News Head of Patent Office says reforms are needed--and larger budgets too. Segway inventor Dean Kamen isn't so sure.
Tags: Patents
Amazon sues Barnesandnoble.com over patent
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Tech companies, investors clash over patent law
News Larger companies have been lobbying for surgery on what they call a "broken" system; smaller venture capital firms aren't convinced.
Tags: Patents, Investments, Regulations
Amazon, IBM settle patent lawsuit
News Amazon.com will pay an undisclosed sum to Big Blue, ending disagreements over e-commerce patents that allegedly began in 2002.
Tags: E-commerce, Web sites, Patents
Last week in open source
News LinuxWorld is proving to be more than just a gathering of Linux fans, as people and companies there join forces on all things open source.
Tags: Open source
IBM taps open source to improve patent quality
News For the thirteenth consecutive year, IBM was awarded the most patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to the company.
Tags: Standards, Open source, Patents
Group seeks to invalidate Microsoft's FAT
News The Public Patent Foundation asks the U.S. Patent Office to revoke Microsoft's hold on its File Allocation Table storage system, saying it's necessary to the open-source software movement.
The problem with US patents
Program comment "The system is indeed broken", opined ZDNet's David Berlind on the subject of software patent in the US.
Tags: Patents
Patent Office needs a 'Slashdot for prior art'
News Patent Office must improve the way it searches for prior art, according to public-policy group CED.
Tags: Patents, Federal Government, Politics
