Prior Art
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S'pore followed global process for 'patent troll'
News Singapore's intellectual property office says it approved controversial image-linking patent based on processes accepted in an international treaty.
Tags: Patents, International governments, Local Government, Patent, Patent Troll, Philippines, Spokesperson, Singapore, intellectual property, prior art
OSDL patent project 'worse than nothing'
News Project to fight low-quality patents could make legal terrain tougher for open source, says free software advocate Richard Stallman.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Open source, Patents
IE patent battle heats up
News Eolas Technologies filed a motion to permanently enjoin Microsoft's distribution of its IE browser.
Web standards group scrutinizing Apple patent
News The W3C aims to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium's work to standardize Web applications.
Tags: Standards, Prior Art, W3C, consortium, RFC, PNG, Standards, software update, software, computer
Group aims to defend Linux from bad patents
News Linux Defenders is asking the open source community to help find examples of prior art to fend off action based on poor-quality patents.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Patent, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, IP, Linux Defenders, Linux Defenders Effort, prior art, software, Linux Community
'Linux Defenders' aim at Microsoft patents
News In the wake of Microsoft's settled suit against TomTom, open source advocates are stepping up an attempt to invalidate some of Redmond's patents.
Tags: Lawsuits, Copyright, Open source, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., TomTom, prior art, Open-source Community
Symbian wins software-patent ruling
News The company has won the right to patent a piece of accelerator code in the United Kingdom, after a High Court ruling found the application did not contravene the U.K. Patents Act.
Tags: Symbian, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Software Patent, Symbian Inc., Computer, dynamic-link library, prior art, software
Patent filings surge in China
News Applications are rising by 20 percent a year in the mainland, a sign of growing concern for intellectual-property rights.
Tags: Patents, Patent, Database, Japan, intellectual property, prior art, China, U.S., strategy, Washington D.C.
Web patent critics spotlight old technology
News The Web community is rummaging desperately through dusty technology archives, in a bid to overturn a sweeping patent verdict that could force major changes on the Internet's most popular software products.
Microsoft strengthens HTML patent with Eolas
Program Microsoft has won a patent for automatically downloading software using the
Tags: Programming languages, Patents
Microsoft criticized for 'IPv6-like' patent
News Software giant comes under fire for "yet another example of how patents can kill or inhibit standards."
Tags: Software engineering/development, Patents
World of Internet patents lands on Singapore's shores
Blogs I have just written an alert for our clients pointing out that a Singapore company has asked for license fees for the us...
Wiki site aims to boost patent review process
News Operators of WikiPatents.com hope it will become trove of information, but some remain skeptical.
Microsoft's Linux-related patents rejected
News U.S. Patent Office rejects claims on popular FAT storage format, used in the open-source OS. But software giant can pursue issue further.
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
