Software Patent
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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
Software patents raise hackles in Britain
News A U.K. foundation gathers testimony from British businesses and coders opposed to software patents.
Mlabs Global targets RM228m slice of US video conferencing market
News Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) -status company Multimedia Research Labs (Mlabs) Global is aiming to carve out a US$60 million slice of the multi-billion dollar American video conferencing market by 2002.
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
Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat
News Community pushing open and free software prepares to defend itself in light of Microsoft's "antagonistic" litigation involving Linux.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Open-source Software, TomTom, open-source leader, software, Linux Community
Europe's software patent war ignites again
News Patent debate may be taken out of hands of elected politicians under new measure, Parliament groups say.
Tags: Software, Patents, Government
Siemens mocked for mobile data patent
News Nosoftwarepatents campaign has handed Siemens its Software Patent of the Year award for claiming rights to all mobile data transmission.
Tags: Patents, Network infrastructure, Legal
Torvalds trashes EU patent proposal
News Linux creator calls an EU proposal on software patents "deceptive, dangerous and democratically illegitimate."
Tags: Business applications, Patents
Anti-patent campaigner hailed as IP hero
News A campaigner against the European software patent directive has made it onto a list of most powerful people involved in intellectual property.
Tags: Legal, Copyright, Patents
EC: Software is not patentable
News The European Patent Office will be bound by proposed legislation that will exclude software from patentability, according to the EC, in a move that has startled opponents of software patents.
U.K. judge frowns on software patents
News Sir Robin Jacob questions the need for software patents and scolds the U.S. for letting "anything under the sun" be patented.
Lobbyists prepare for next software patent battle
News This time the debate around software patents in Europe is going to be "bigger and more complex", according to an anti-patent campaigner.
Tags: Software, Legal, Government
EU patent decision delayed
News The EU Council will postpone its decision to make software patentable--a possible sign of mounting political pressure against the decision.
Dell: Microsoft warnings haven't hurt Linux uptake
News CEO Michael Dell says Microsoft's patent-infringement claims have not affected sales of its Linux servers.
Tags: Open source, Linux
Xerox suit against 3Com over "Graffiti" moves forward
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