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• USPatent and Trademark Office
• USPTO guidelines on obviousness post-KSR
• Digital Law Online. The author was a plaintiff´s expert in Caldera v. Microsoft. His section on software patents, while biased toward their validity, is the best summary discussion of the judicial history leading to software patents that I´ve run across on the web.
• Source Law Index, provided by BitLaw
• Cornell´s Legal Information Institute (LLI), provides overviews of various topics of law, including patent law. Links include primary law materials and international sites
  • Patent law: an overview, provides overviews of patent law
  • Patent Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court, searchable
  • Copyright Law
  • U.S. Patent Act — 35 USCS Sects. 1 – 376
• Findlaw – Intellectual Property, this site includes articles and a collection of links to US and international primary materials. FindLaw
• Hieros Gamos – Intellectual Property Law is a comprehensive law and government web site. It includes a guide to intellectual property, including patent law. Hieros Gamos
• PatentLawLinks.Com, is a portal to patent law information. It includes links to primary authorities, journals, associations and other patent-law resources
• United States Code – Title 35–Patents from the US Code — Electronic Edition site
• Consolidated Patent Rules – Title 37 – Code of Federal Regulations: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights [PDF] – very large. USPTO
• Supreme Court Cases–Summaries, provided by Touro Law Center
• Federal Circuit Opinions, provided by Emory University School of Law
• Collection Of Laws For Electronic Access (CLEA), is a database providing access to intellectual property legislation from a wide range of countries and regions as well as to treaties on intellectual property. WIPO

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Patent Resources

• Patent Terms, Patent Progress’ Dictionary
• Patent and Trademark Despository Library Association, Some interesting patent information and links available.
• Internet Patent News / Source Translation & Optimization Patent Web Site
• US Patent and Trademark Office´s main Patent Information page provided by USPTO
• UK Patent Office
• European Patent Office
• Computer-implemented inventions [European Patent Office]
• Relevant sections from the USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Procedure:
  • Section 2200 Citation of Prior Art and Ex Parte Reexamination of Patents (includes requirement that prior art be found in “printed publications; also includes instructions for ex parte requests to reexamine.)
  • Section 2128 “Printed Publications” as Prior Art (mostly devoted to criteria for determining what electronic publications are “printed publications”).
• See generally, U.S. Patent & Trade Mark Office Patents, (home page);
  • Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, (8th ed., August 2001, as revised through May, 2004)
  • Index to section 2100, Patentability;
  • Section 2106 Patentable Subject Matter – Computer-Related Inventions.
• FindLaw
  • Federal Circuit Opinions is a good starting point for researching Federal Circuit patent decisions. However, Findlaw´s relevant database is far from complete and is missing many of the key software patent decisions.
  • Supreme Court Opinions is a good starting point for U.S. Supreme Court patent decisions.
  • Copyright and Patents Annotation has a primer on patent case law, with hyperlinks to key case decisions.
  • U.S. Code search page is a good launching point for U.S. Code sections, includes links to alternative sites at Cornell Legal Information Institute and at the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Georgetown University Law Library´s Federal Circuit decisions has Federal Circuit published opinions since 1995 in PDF and HTML formats.
• Greg Ahorian´s Judicial Decisions Regarding Patent and Copyright Theory web site plugs many of the critical holes in the Findlaw and Georgetown University´s Federal Circuit databases for key decisions involved in software patent issues. Patenting Art and Entertainment
• GPO Access Code of Federal Regulations index gives you access to regulations affecting patents, copyrights, and trademarks. See Title 37. NARA | US National Archives & Records Administration
• Patent Center, special section on Patent Law provided by lexisONE

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• US Patent and Trademark Office Home page
  • Federal statutes and regulations. The full text of federal patent laws currently in force.
  • Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP). The current and all earlier editions since the 1998 edition.
  • Patent Classification, (the organization of patents)
  • Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) Here are the full text of the Board´s precedential opinions, final decisions, forms, procedures and other information.
• US federal judiciary The Administrative Offices of the US Courts maintain this a site of links to Internet-based resources of the federal courts, including decisions. U.S. Courts
• World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO UN´s specialized intellectual property agency.

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International Patent

• White paper values IPR (full text), The Information Office of the State Council, Updated: April 22 2005, China Daily
• Patent Harmonization: Creating Uniform Patent Laws, David V. Radack, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
• The Patent Office Consultation on a Patent Grace Period, IPAC Observations, Intellectual Property Advisory Committee
• Grace Period, by Heinz Bardehle, FLORENCE Open Forum Papers – 1998
• Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), World Trade Organization (WTO)
• WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization
  • Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA) Text of Treaties, national IP and other laws, etc.
  • Patent Law Treaty
  • WIPO Guide to Intellectual Property Worldwide, Second Edition
  • The Patent Cooperation Treaty home page
  • PCT Gazette, The Intellectual Property Digital Library
• The Patent Cooperation Treaty Country List provided by Brown & Michaels

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International Legal Information Resources

• World Legal Information Institute, Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law
• Southern African Legal Information Institute, Access to Freely Available Southern African Public Legal Information
• Hong Kong Legal Information Institute, Access to Freely Available Hong Kong Public Legal Information
• Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, Access to Freely Available Pacific Islands Public Legal Information
• Canadian Legal Information Institute, Access to Freely Available Canadian Public Legal Information
• British and Irish Legal Information Institute, Access to Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information
• Australasian Legal Information Institute, Access to Freely Available for the Australasian jurisdictions
• American Law Sources On-line, a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada.

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Convergence of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Laws

• Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting, Carl Shapiro, Haas School of Business and Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley
• Patent Pools: 100 Years of Law and Economic Solitude by Richard J. Gilbert, May 5, 2002 (MS Word document)
• Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property, U.S. Dept. of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (1995).
• American Antitrust Institute links on IP and antitrust.
• Patent Misuse by Wilson Sonsini

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Online legal journals

• Intellectual property and technology forum at Boston College Law School has scholarly articles, current awareness news reports, and a community forum to help readers share ideas.
• Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property discusses issues of intellectual property, including case notes of recent legal developments
• UCLA Journal of Law and Technology is dedicated to producing the best literature on the web concerning not only hard IP, but all intellectual property that is at the forefront of technology
• Virginia Journal of Law and Technology is a student-run publication of the University of Virginia School of Law
• Patently-O: Patent Law Blog

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Patent and IP News

• Own It, is a new service which offers free intellectual property advice for London’s creative people
• IP Newswire
• Rolf Claessen´s IP Newsflash, Patent Research, Patents, Trademarks, and Intellectual Property

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Patent Newsletters

• The Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property newsletter, is a free web newsletter that summarizes academic research in economics, law and history on patents in non-technical language. The newsletter regularly features contributions from leading researchers and is read by researchers, lawyers, policy makers & the general public. Research on Innovation
• The Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property newsletter archive, are particularly valuable, summarizing several years worth of research. Research on Innovation

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Patent Research Papers and books

• Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It, Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner, 2004, [Princeton University Press]
• Entering a dark age of innovation, 02 July 2005, Robert Adler, New Scientist
• Software Patents Don’t Compute, By Ben Klemens, IEEE Spectrum Online.
  Explanation of the Church-Turing Thesis from mathworld
• Geeks Bearing Gifts: Open Source Software and its Enemies, Nicholas Gruen
• European Patents on Computer-Implemented Inventions Issued to Small and Medium Enterprises, Daniel K. N. Johnson, May 2005, Colorado College
• A New Paradigm For Intellectual Property Rights In Software, Mark H. Webbink, Duke University School of Law : Journals
• The First Mover Monopoly. A study on patenting business methods in Europe by Olswang and Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, Oxford University
• Could SCO v IBM happen to you?, 15 January 2004, Copyright © 2004, Jeremy Malcolm, iLaw
• Sequential Innovation, Patents and Imitation, James Bessen and Eric Maskin, January 2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hosted by Research on Innovation
• An Empirical Look at Software Patents, James Bessen, Research on Innovation and Boston University School of Law (Visiting Researcher), Robert M. Hunt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, March 2004, hosted by Research on Innovation
• The Software Patent Experiment, (a less technical version for the general public), James Bessen, Research on Innovation and Boston University School of Law (Visiting Researcher), Robert M. Hunt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, March 16 2004, hosted by Research on Innovation
• Research in Europe, includes their letter to the European Parliament, plus a criticism of the two above papers and rebuttal to this criticism
• Online Working Papers, other papers by James Bessen, including other papers on Open Source and patents, hosted by Research on Innovation
• Freedom of Speech in Software, by Phil Salin, July 14, 1991, PhilSalin.com

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Patent Economics

• Intellectual Property Page, Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, Economic and Game Theory
• e-Patents and financial investing. During a hearing about patenting software on May 8, 2003 in Brussels Laura Creighton gave a talk about the subject. The text is a starting point to get familiar with the threat software patents cause to society. Hosted by Vrijschrift

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Patent Blogs

• Promote the Progress blog
• The PTP Patent Reform Library from Promote the Progress blog
• The Patent Arcade (Pro Patent)
• berkeley intellectual property weblog
• Promote the Progress : The PTP Patent Reform Library
• Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
• Patently Silly – The Humor of Invention
• Anything Under the Sun Made By Man
• Peter Zura´s Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog
• The Patentability Blog
• rethink(ip)
• Patent Pending – Inventions and Technology Updates
• Small Business IP Protection and Management

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Patent searching

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Patent searching – public sources

• Free Patent Search Information And Tips, Ramaswami Natarajan, Contributing Writer, 2005-09-02 [WebProNews]
• FreshPatents.com, the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to grant/deny
• Patent Storm: U.S. Patents, provides patent search capability of the US Patent Office patent information. Search for inventors and their inventions or browse the latest patents of their inventions
• Evolution of Industry Knowledge in the Public Domain: Prior Art Searching for Software Patents, about prior art searches and how to do them in the US, UK and Japan
• Patent Searching aggregated list of patent search sites
• Patent Searching For Students Or New Inventors
• Google patent search, remember to type "patent" before the patent number. Example: "patent 5123123"
• Patents Act 1977: Examining for Patentability
• Patent Offices on the Internet
• US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the primary database for patent searching in the US
  • US Patent and Trademark Office – patent searching, records from 1790 to present, USPTO
  • USPTO patent assigment recordations, Assignments on the Web, USPTO
• Department of Energy Patent Database Searchable database of patents and patent applications resulting from DOE sponsorships or owned by DOE or its contractors or assignees. Provided by Department Of Energy
• European Patent Office, Web site that permits free searching of English language patents filed in the patent offices of the EU, WIPO, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan
• Canadian patent database, this database provides access to over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• The Industrial Property Digital Library (IPDL) offers public access to the English language version of IP Gazettes of the Japan Patent Office
• DEPATISnet, German Patent and Trade Mark Office. It searches all the free databases at once, EPO USPTO, PCT, JPO etc.
• The Citation Bridge, Citation Bridge^TM is a free search utility that lets you look up forward and backward U.S. Patent Citations, METRICS GROUP
• Patent Databases on the Internet Compiled by Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources
• FreshPatents.com, offers keyword watching and an RSS feeds about patents before the USPTO. Has free registration and advertising.

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Commercial patent search sources

• M·CAM DOORS is a full-service intellectual property rights actuarial company.
• Delphion, formerly the IBM patent server. It is a subscription-based site for patent searching. Includes US, European, Japanese, WIPO and INPADOC patent information.
• Lexis-Nexis, Lexis includes several databases of patent law and patent grants and applications. US, European, INPADOC patents are available in English, along with Japanese abstracts in English.
• MicroPatent, MicroPatent has several patent searching features, including full-text searches of patents by major classification from US, European, WIPO, and abstracts of Japanese patents.
• Questel-Orbit, provides PlusPat, a fee-based database of patent documents from 70 worldwide patenting authorities.
• Westlaw includes several databases of patent law and patent information, including patent applications and grants in English for US, European, French, and WIPO sources. It also includes Japanese patent and abstracts and the Derwent Patents Citation Index.

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Downloading Patents

• Guide to Downloading Patent Copies on the Internet provided by The Invent Blog
• FreePatentsOnline, provides fast, easy-to-use access to millions of patents
• Pat2PDF.ORG a free web-based interface to the patent search tool — download patents in PDF
• pat2pdf is a gpl licensed patent download tool
• freePat for Windows, download US, European, PCT, Canadian, French, German and UK patents to PC as PDF, Eliopoulos Intellectual Property Law
• FREE pdf copies of EPO/PCT filings, provided by European Patent Office (EPO)
• Patent Logistics´ Online USPTO Patent Fetcher provided by Patent Logistics, LLC

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Patents and the Patent Problem

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About Patents

• GrokLaw articles:
  • A Prior Art How To
  • Classes in Patents, Copyright, and Trademarks for Free Online From WIPO
  • Patent Questions About the CDDL
  • Antitrust Law Can Curtail or Trump a Patent – Patent Lesson One, by marbux
  • Reflections on Intellectual Property Rights, by John H Terpstra
  • Why Program Code Isn´t the Same as a Novel, by k12linux
  • Patents and Copyright: Two Different Purposes
• Articles by others:
  • An Overview of Intellectual Property [BioPharm]
  • Why Can´t I Patent My Movie?, A comment on software patents, actually, FFII.se
  • The People Own Ideas!, by Lawrence Lessig, June 2005, Technology Review
  • Understanding “Patentese” – A Patent Glossary, Arnold B. Silverman and George K. Stacey, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
  • Information on PATENTS provided by Brown & Michaels
  • General information about patents provided by Oppedahl & Larson LLP
  • The Big Idea, Special Report, MSNBC
  • There´s No Such Thing As a Free Patent, N. Stephan Kinsella, March 7, 2005, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • Crash course on patents Arnoud Engelfriet, Ius mentis
  • Free and Open Source Software: Software Patents, Linux Australia
  • Patent Law, provided by IPWatchdog.com
  • Final Examination Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions, BitLaw
  • How to apply for a patent, The UK Patent Office
  • The History of Software Patents, Daniel A. Tysver, BitLaw
  • Interview with Linus Torvalds, Leader of the Free World, by Gary Rivlin of Wired — discusses patent searching
  • Open Source Initiative: The Approved Licenses

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Articles About the Patent Problem

• How I Beat a Patent Troll, Drew Curtis, TED Talks video
• Intellectual-Property Rights and Wrongs, By Joseph Stiglitz, August 18 2005, [Yemen Times]
• The end of free innovation, Posted by special contributor Evert Mouw on 2005-06-22, OS News
• Indecipherable Patents, Jun 02, 2005, Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
• Microsoft, Oracle call for patent reform, by Declan McCullagh, CNET News.comm, April 25, 2005, published on ZDNet News
• Innovation and Its Discontents [PDF], Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner (Brandeis and Harvard University), National Bureau of Economic Research
• Patents and innovation research, April 19, 2005, The Intangible Economy (weblog)
• Malcolm flays Aust patent authorities, by Brendon Chase, Builder AU, 22 April 2005, ZDNet Australia, 11 April 2005
• Marking the Software Patent Beast, paper written by Stephen Lindholm of Stanford Law School
• Patent Prescription, by Adam B. Jaffe & Josh Lerner, IEEE Spectrum
• Electronic patent databases invent difficulties, 03 April 2005, Paul Marks, New Scientist
• Patent Office Director To Announce New Initiatives To Improve Patent Process, US Patent and Trademark Office
• Philips´ patent lawyer attacks EPO patent awards, 04/02/2005 by Joe Figueiredo, Digitak Media Europe
• A Patent System for the 21st Century – Table of Contents, 2004, National Academies Press
• Monopolies of the mind, Nov 11th 2004, The Economist
• Lawyers Weigh In on Linux Patent Threat, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, August 11, 2004, eWEEK
• Patents and Linux, Tim Bray, Updated: 2004/08/05, ongoing
• The Tragedy of the RProxy, Rusty Russell, Last modified: Fri August 20, 2004, Rusty´s Bleeding Edge Page
• As Many As Six Impossible Patents Before Breakfast: Property Rights For Business Concepts And Patent System Reform, Professor Robert P. Merges, Berkeley Technology Law Journal
• Patently unfair, Thursday July 8, 2004, The Guardian
• Survey: European patents have quality problems, Ingrid Marson, June 08, 2004, ZDNet UK
• The Silent Revolution, Review, Gary Stix, June 2004 issue Scientific American
• Why are Software Patents Illegal?, 2004, Christian Beauprez, codeliberty.org
• To promote innovation: The proper balance of competition and patent law and policy, [PDF], Federal Trade Commission
• The fallacy about patents, February 4, 2004, Nicholas Donofrio, Senior VP IBM CNET News.com
• The Eagle Is Grounded, Thomas Goetz, February 2004, Wired
• Software patents need shelter from the storm, by John Carroll, Special to ZDNet, September 15, 2003, ZDNet News
• Internet patents divide industry, by Justin Pope, Associated Press, July 26, 2003, The Washington Times
• Breaking into Locked Rooms to Access Computer Source Code: “Does the DMCA Violate a Constitutional Mandate When Technological Barriers of Access Are Applied to Software?”, [PDF], Rod Dixon, 2003, Virginia Journal of Law and Technology
• Free Software Matters: Patently Controversial, October 20, 2001, Eben Moglen
• Ordinary Skill in the Art, November 2000, Jeffrey D. Ullman
• Free Software Matters: The Patent Problem, October 9, 2000, Eben Moglen
• Patent nonsense, April 6, 2000, Economist.com
• Presentation [PDF], Brian Kahin (Internet Policy Institute), presentation on the political economy of the US Patent and Trademark Office, February 2000, Research on Innovation
• Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation [PDF], James Bessen and Eric Maskin, January 2000, Research on Innovation
• The Coming Software Patent Crisis: Can Linux Survive? by Bryan Pfaffenberger on 1999-08-09, Linux Journal
• Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation, James Bessen and Eric Maskin, 1999, Research on Innovation
• How can they patent that?, by Peter Wayner, March 9, 1999, Salon.com | Archives
• The Software Patent Crisis, by Brian Kahin, the April 1990 issue of Technology Review

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The World of Games Patents

• Games Patents:
  • FreshPatents.com: Amusement devices: games patents new
  • Patent Storm: Amusement devices: games
• Games Patent Articles:
  • Have Nintendo Patented the Revolution controller?
  • Full Revolution controller details finally revealed?
  • WMS Gaming, Cyberview Technology Sign Deal, 22 June 2005, Casino City Times
  • Game industry magazine article on software patents, 22nd june 2005, Wiki at FFII
  • Free software game server engineers in Court, 2005-06-17, Technology News Daily
  • Patents : New Sonic Game Patent
  • Carmack on Game Patents
  • Innovation: The Impossible Dream?
  • Question of the Week Responses: Video Game Patents
  • It’s Just a Game, Right? Top Mythconceptions on Patent Protection of Video Games (registration required)
  • More Video Game Patents On The Way
  • Are Video Game Patents Next?
  • A Gamers´ Manifesto
  • Game makers hit with graphics patent violation suit
  • IDGA – "Famous Last Words", The ‘690 Attack (March 2005)
• Other Games Patent Articles:
  • Nintendo patents insanity, By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 31 August 2005, [the Inquirer]
  • IGDA Newsletter – March 2005. International Game Developers Association sent out a call for prior art in their monthly newsletter
  • The 4,734,690 patent
• Games Organisations:
  • IGDA Intellectual Property Rights Committee

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Patently Absurd

• Nintendo patents insanity, By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 31 August 2005, [the Inquirer]
• More patent absurdity threatens net commerce, Posted by David Berlin, 28/7/2005, [ZDNet Blogs]
• Patent absurdity, Richard Stallman, June 20, 2005, ZDNet UK
• Patent absurdity, Monday June 20, 2005, Guardian Unlimited
• Patently Silly – The Humor of Invention, – presented by Daniel Wright
• Patent absurdities are plain unsporting, Leader, May 27, 2005, ZDNet UK
• Software Patents in Action, Collection of news stories and case studies showing how the granting, licensing and litigation of patents is affecting players in the software field, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• Patently Absurd, by Simson L. Garfinkel, Issue 2.07, July 1994, Wired News
• Ridiculous Patents, September 10, 2003, Pieter Spronck
• Patently Absurd, Gary L. Reback, 24 June, 2002, Forbes.com
• Patently Absurd; this article first appeared 12 March 2000 in the New York Times Magazine, James Gleick

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Definitions of Open Standards on the Web

• GrokLaw articles:
  • MS and XML – The Steamroller Pushes Ahead For a new doc standard to fly under the radar and then suddenly emerge with UN and MS support cannot help but raise concerns about both the product and the process
  • ADTI Has Another Study; Marbux Finds a Patent-Open Standards Primer
  • MA Says MS Agrees to Change XML License To Meet New Open Format Standard
  • Larry Rosen, the FTC, Open Standards, and Why FOSS Matters
  • Sender ID and Almost-Open Standards
  • Some Advice & a New Book by Larry Rosen, and an Open Source, Open Standards Conference
• Articles by others:
  • Open Document Formats: “Open” must be more than a marketing term, Bob Sutor, Vice President of Standards and Open Source, IBM Corporation, June 07 2005, developerWorks : Blogs
  • OASIS: Meaningful open standards or mirage?, May 24 2005, by Jay Lyman NewsForge
  • OASIS Okays Open Source Open Doc Format for Office Apps, May 23 2005, by ADT Staff ADTmag
  • Microsoft criticised for IP address configuration patent Ingrid Marson, June 08, 2004, MS attempts to patent IPV6, ZDNet UK
  • “Honey, I patented the Internet!”, Sniptools – Technology Blog
  • The waning influence of the W3C standards body is a cause for concern, Tim Anderson, 21 Apr 2005, IT Week
  • The Problem of Software Patents in Standards, Bruce Perens, Bruce Perens
  • Microsoft cops standards attack, Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia, 19 April 2005, Builder AU
  • IEEE Standards Association Patent Committee, information about patents and the standards creation process of IEEE
  • Patents and Open Standards, Last modified: February 25, 2005, OASIS
  • Leaders Denounce OASIS Patent Policies, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, February 22, 2005, eWEEK
  • W3C risks patent tussle in standard push, February 19, 2004, Paul Festa, CNET News.com
  • GTW Associates, U.S. Dept. of Justice business review letters applicable to intellectual property rights in standards setting; conduct of standards setting and Association management programs.

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Submarine Patents

A description of Submarine patent, provided by Wikipedia

• GrokLaw article – The Symbol/Cognex-Lemelson Patent Battle, Monday, August 22 2005
• Rambus in EU "patents ambush" probe, by David Evans: Friday 24 June 2005, the INQUIRER
• The Verdict on IP Protection, by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff, Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005, Managing Automation
• PTO Takes (Baby) Step to Further Limit Submarine Patents, Jun 07, 2005, Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
• Patents breeding software extortion: Moglen, Rodney Gedda, Computerworld, 27/04/2005, LinuxWorld.com.au
• GrokLaw article – SCO Supplemental Answers to IBM´s 1st Set of Interrogatories. Discussion about submarine patent in the comments, here
• How Ampex Squeezes Out Cash by Spencer E. Ante in New York, with Justin Hibbard in San Francisco, April 18, 2005, BusinessWeek Online
• The Patent Guy by Spencer E. Ante, April 11, 2005, BusinessWeek Online

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Other patent articles

• GrokLaw articles:
  • A New Expression for “Reverse Engineering”?
  • Evaluating Massachusetts´ Open Formats Proposal
  • More on EU Software Patents, Prior Art, and Another NZ MS XML Patent
  • So, *Now* How Do You Feel About Software Patents?
  • How Not to Kill the Golden Goose
  • SCO´s Objections to Notice of Deposition (the Compression Notice) – as text
  • SCO´s Objections to Notice of Deposition (the Compression Notice) – as text
  • SCO Considering Next Steps After DC Setback & Another Novell Delay
  • Top Intellectual Property Law Issues of 2005, by Wolf, Greenfield
  • Sun´s Proposed CDDL License – Feedback Requested
  • Two Journalists Don´t Understand Open Source and the Penguin Marches On
  • IBM Files Declarations and An Idea to Deal with Stupid Patent Tricks
  • The FTC Summit on Email Authentication and more on Patents
  • Patents – An Alternative View Also many interesting comments
  • More on Sender ID – A Little Water Under That Bridge? and MS-EU Hearing Report
  • Munich Going Forward with Linux
  • Munich´s Mayor on LiMux and Other Examples of Software Patents Hindering Progress
  • IBM Donates Cloudscape to Apache Foundation & MS´s Patent Purpose
  • Sun Claims It Is Considering Buying Novell
  • Darl McBride, the Man Nobody Bothers to Hate, and His Buddy Mike Anderer Cook Up a Scheme About patent pooling as a business concept
  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee: How the WWW Might Never Have Happened
  • EFF Starts Patent-Busting Project
  • UNIX Timeline Project — Grokline´s Status
  • PubPat Wins a Reexamination of Cotransformation Patent
  • New Patent Proposals: It Shouldn´t Be Obvious, for Starters, April 19, 2004, National Academies´ National Research Council
  • Novell´s Reply Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss – Annotated Touches what an actual transfer of ownership of a patent requires
  • Anderer´s "Old Think" Tries to Justify A Dying Business Model See article and comments
  • Eben Moglen´s Harvard Speech – The Transcript
  • Patent News From PubPat and IBM
  • Interview About Patents with Dan Ravicher
  • "No One Respects a Bully" Comparing SCO´s strategy to Walker Digital
  • Eldred v. Ashcroft – Justice Breyer´s Dissenting Opinion Mentions the Senate´s Subcommittee on patents, copyrights, and trademarks in the story. There is also a lot of discussion on copyrights vs patents in the comments.
  • The 1995 Novell-SCO Asset Purchase Agreement´s Schedules ATTACHMENT D: Patents and Patent Applications Affecting the Business
  • It´s Official. China Goes Linux. Gartner Says US Will Follow. And Darl´s No Free Linux Speech. Mentions an Andy Grove comment on patents
  • Public Patent Foundation Announced & Sun Digs a Patent Hole For Itself. Announcement of PubPat
  • SCO Has a Patent — Not Linux Kernel-Related — about SCOs patent Number 6,529,784. Also see discussion after article
  • Caldera´s Linux Contributions Were Official, not by Rogue Employees. A part of the story deals with the Patent articly by Rod Dixon (referenced above)
• Articles by others:
  • The True Value Of Intellectual Property, By Art Whittmann, June 01, 2005 Linux Pipeline
  • FTC claims Rambus spoiled antitrust evidence, by Tony Smith, 24 May 2005 Channel Register
  • Google trying to patent news ranking by quality, Friday May 6, 2005, Reuters
  • Patent Suit Adds Intel, AMD, May 4, 2005, by Michael Singer, InternetNews
  • HP, EMC End Patent Dispute, Clint Boulton, May 02, 2005, InternetNews
  • Congress urged to reform patent system, United Press International, Published May 2, 2005, World Peace Herald
  • Seagate and Cornice Reach Partial Settlement of Their Pending Patent Lawsuits, Monday May 2, 2005, Yahoo! Finance
  • Patent litigation worries tech industry, Dar Haddix, Washington, May 2, ScienceDaily Magazine
  • America lauds India for new patent law, Sunday, May 01, 2005, The Financial Express, India
  • Intellectual-Property Panel Tackles the Issue of Patents, by Darryl K. Taft, April 22, 2005, eWEEK
  • Deconstructing stupidity, James Boyle, Published: April 21 2005 FT.com
  • IBM exec: US could learn from EU, China patent policy, Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, 07/04/2005, Computerworld
  • IBM throws weight behind multi-OS push, Published: February 24, 2005, Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
  • Computer programme patenting may brake IT boom, Thursday, February 17, 2005, Indiatimes – Infotech
  • Towards a “World Intellectual Wealth Organisation”. Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
  • Be careful how you code, Bill Thompson, Friday, 17 December, 2004, BBC News
  • Halloween XI: Get The FUD, 22 June 2004, Eric S. Raymond, Open Source Initiative
  • UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading, Graeme Wearden, June 14, 2004, ZDNet UK
  • Legally Speaking: Why Reform the U.S. Patent System? [PDF], Pamela Samuelson,
  • Email filter patent puts industry on edge, Lucy Sherriff, Tuesday 30th March, 2004 The Register
  • A conversation with Dan Ravicher, PUBPAT, Thursday 06 May 2004, Orange Crate
  • Controlling opportunistic and anti-competitive intellectual property litigation, Michael J. Meurer, Boston College Law School Student Publications
  • Interview: Public Patent Foundation´s Dan Ravicher, PJ interviews Dan Ravicher, a bit down on the page, LWN.net
  • Preliminary Injunction Motions In Patent Litigation, Steven E. Shapiro, 1993, Franklin Pierce Law Center

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• Making observations on someone else´s patent application, section 21 of the Patents Act 1977, The UK Patent Office
• Patents Microsoft may be infringing…, LXer
• Hunting for Prior Art on the Acacia Patent and Other Strategies
• EFF Publishes Patent Hit List, Daniel Terdiman, 02:00 AM June. 30, 2004 PT, Wired News
• PUBPAT´s Request for Reexamination of Microsoft FAT Patent, [PDF]. A request for reconsideration.
• Patent Avoidance Library, Don Lancaster´s Guru´s Lair
• The Patent Busting Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Patent Upending, Wired, June 2000
• Patently Absurd, James Gleick, 2000
• Internet Patent News Service, Gregory Aharonian´s web site
• Public Patent Foundation a not-for-profit legal services organization that represents the public´s interests against the harms caused by the patent system
• New Rules Proposed: Third Party Appeals in Inter Parte Reexaminations, Philip T. Petti, The Association of Patent Law Firms (APLF)

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Contributed by marbux in this post

Have Ever wonder why so many software developers are so disturbed by software patents? Part of the reason is that according to the patent courts, language itself is now patentable. The patent courts now allow the languages used by software developers to be patented. Could you get any work done if you had to pay for every word you used? Think we’re joking? Read on:

4.6 The Board is aware that its comparatively broad interpretation of the term “invention” in Article 52(1) EPC will include activities which are so familiar that their technical character tends to be overlooked, such as the act of writing using pen and paper.

Hitachi automatic auction method, T0258/03-3.5.1, Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, pg. 16 (April 21, 2004); (PDF) (construing E.U. Patent Convention Article 52.)

Suggested further reading:

• Patent Absurdity, by Free Software Foundation leader Richard M. Stallman, in The Guardian (June 20, 2005).
• The Most Important Software Innovations, by David A. Wheeler, (May 25,2005) (concluding that nearly all true innovations in the software field were never patented).
• Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation, [PDF] by James Bessen and Eric Maskin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics Department working paper (January 2000) (concluding that software patent protection may reduce overall innovation and social welfare).
• Art 52 EPC: Interpretation and Revision, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (web page collecting numerous legal papers tracing the patent courts’ complete reversal of the European Patent Convention’s provision prohibiting software patents.
• Software Patent News, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure worldwide software patent news roundup with emphasis on Europe (updated daily; RSS feeds in several European languages).
• GrokLaw – Patent Stories in the News, Groklaw worldwide patent news roundup with emphasis on North America (updated weekly; RSS feed in English available).

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About FOSS and Patents

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FOSS and Patents

• GrokLaw articles:
  • Patent Infringement Lawsuits That Involve FOSS, Wednesday, August 10 2005
  • OSDL Announces Patent Commons Project, Tuesday, August 09 2005
  • Microsoft — Can We Talk?
  • Duke Law School´s “Patents v. Open Source” Seminar – webcasts, refers to the “Software: Patents v. Open Source” seminar
  • MA Posts New Version of Open Formats – Requests Comments
  • Irish Linux Groups Write Their MEPs About SW Patents
  • Sun Responds to Criticism of CDDL
  • Sun´s Schwartz and McNealy: Patent Pledge Only for CDDL Licensees
  • Sun Begins to Respond to Patent Questions
  • The Future Is Open: What OpenDocument Is And Why You Should Care ~ by Daniel Carrera
  • Sun´s 1600 Patents, OpenSolaris, and CDDL
  • No, Virginia. Actually, There Is No Santa Claus
  • Study Says 30% of Patents Are Duplicative and Thus Invalid
  • IBM Gives FOSS Free Access to 500 Patents – Rethinks IP Management
  • Richard Stallman on Software Idea Patents
  • Sun and Brand X Open Source
  • On FOSS, IP Laws, and Expanding Legal Choices
  • For Now, Sender ID is Dead and MARID Shuts Down
  • Standards, Dell and Microsoft
  • Sender ID Dead for Now and SUN-MS Agreement RE Open Office
  • Linus on Patents, Innovation . . . and Groklaw
  • IBM Pledges Not To Use Patents Against Linux Wednesday, August 04 2004
• Articles by others:
  • Open source DVD burning software hit by legal threats, by: Jay Lyman, Tuesday July 05, 2005, NewsForge
  • Free seeds, 23 June 2005, Rafael Evangelista, Planeta Porto Alegre
  • The end draws near…, VideoLAN – And the issue of software patents
  • MS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU, Peter Galli – eWEEK Fri Jun 17 Yahoo! News
  • PR: GPL Version 3: Background to Adoption, by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen, Jun 9, 2005, Linux Today
  • Microsoft´s antitrust offering ´blocks Samba´, by Lucy Sherriff, published Thursday 9th June 2005, The Register
  • Borland: patents suck, no general solution for OSS available, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
  • Wine development stifled by software patent, Ingrid Marson, 12 May 2005, uk.builder.com
  • Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community, By Peter Galli, April 5, 2005, eWEEK
  • Lawyers ride shotgun for open source, published January 31, 2005, by Stephen Shankland, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
  • Intellectual property and SAP: seeding the Year of the Partner, by Joshua Greenbaum, 21 Apr 2005, SearchSAP.com
  • Enterprise Unix Roundup: Open Source Redefined — or Hijacked?, April 8, 2005, ServerWatch
  • Lessig: A war against the freedom to innovate, Dan Farber, 4/6/2005, Tech Blogs on ZDNet
  • The IP Elephant in the IT Kitchen, Thursday, February 3, WebMink, Simon Phipps´s personal commentary
  • Sun Grants Global Open Source Community Access to More than 1,600 Patents, January 25, 2005, Sun Microsystems
  • The Penguin in Peril: SCO´s Legal Threats to Linux, Ishtiaque Omar, First Monday, volume 10, number 1
  • For submission to the Patent & Trademark Office, Richard Stallman
  • Group: Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com, Published on August 1, 2004, ZDNet News
  • Attacks against open source failing, says patent attorney, Jan Stafford, 30 July 2004, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
  • Patents in an open source world, Monday July 26, 2004, Lawrence Rosen, NewsForge
  • Software patents ´threaten Linux´, Friday, 23 January, 2004, Clark Boyd, BBC, Interview with Bruce Perens
  • Open Letter on Software Patents from Linux developers, From Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox to the European Parliament
  • Software Patents vs. Free Software, Bruce Perens
  • Perens at LinuxWorld: prepare mutual legal defense now, August. 08, 2003, See transcript linked at the bottom of the article. LinuxDevices.com/
  • HP memo forecasts MS patent attacks on free software, By: Joe Barr, Monday July 19, 2004, NewsForge

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• GrokLaw articles:
  • Hints About GPL3
  • Patents – Why Free/Open Source Software Might Have Less to Fear than Non-Free Software, by Dan Ravicher
  • Two FSF Seminars on the GPL in California August 24 and 25
  • Robin Bloor Grokking the GPL
  • "Death to Linux"? No, an IBM Countersuit Instead, IBM using GPL against SCO
  • Linus: "The Most Important Thing Has Always Been That People Be Able to Trust Me". Reference to an interview with Linus where he mentions the RCU patent
  • O, What a Tortuous Web We Weave… More about the RCU patent
  • And They Call Linus Careless About use of the RCU patent in Linux
• Articles by others:
  • GPL v3 Coming Out in 2007? [Slashdot]
  • GPL upgrade due in 2007 Paul Krill, 11/08/2005 [LinuxWorld]
  • IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite, Ingrid Marson, April 13, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • Open-Source License Battles Are Brewing, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, April 11, 2005 eWEEK
  • Open-Source Referees Change the Rules, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, April 7, 2005 eWEEK
  • Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else. by David A. Wheeler, June 5, 2002; revised February 16, 2005
  • Sprucing up open source´s GPL foundation, Published: December 23, 2004, Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
  • Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, November 19, 2004 eWEEK
  • GPL´ed Patent Pool, discussion thread on “foundation-list gnome org”
  • Linux and Patent Risks, chromatic, 08/06/2004, O´Reilly LinuxDevCenter.Com
  • The GPL And The Legal Challenge To It, Robin Bloor, Monday 29th March 2004, IT-Analysis.com
  • Does SCO own read-copy-update?, LWN discussion of RCU
  • Cringely´s analysis of the RCU claim
  • Patents are your friends, by Damien Cave, Salon.com
  • Patent Reform Is Not Enough
  • Open Source Initiative (OSI)
  • GNU General Public License

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• GrokLaw articles:
  • Novell´s New Patent Policy
  • Red Hat on Patents and Der Spiegel on EU, MS, and Patents

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Companies with FOSS patent policies

• IBM
  • Power.Org on the Road to Open Hardware, Wednesday 15th June 2005, by: Tony Lock, IT-Analysis.com
  • IBM Statement of Non-Assertion of Named Patents Against OSS [PDF]
• Knoppix
  • Knoppix – “Software-Patents” in Europe: The threat prevails
• Mandriva
  • NO Software Patents in Europe
• MySQL
  • MySQL´s patent policy
• Nokia developers
  • Legally Binding Commitment Not to Assert Nokia Patents against the Linux Kernel
  • GrokLaw article — Stallman on Nokia Patent Statement
  • Stallman: Nokia´s patent announcement next to nothing, by: Richard Stallman, Monday May 30, 2005, NewsForge
• Novell
  • Novell discloses it bought e-commerce patents, by John Markoff The New York Times, Tuesday, May 3, 2005, International Herald Tribune
  • Secretive Buyer of Some E-Commerce Patents Turns Out to Be Novell, By John Markoff, Published: May 2, 2005, The New York Times
  • Commerce One patent sale has Google worried, by Alorie Gilbert, November 25, 2004, ZDNet UK
  • Patent Policy, Novell Statement on Patents and Open Source Software
  • Novell´s Patent Policy European
• Raph Levien
  • Raph Levien´s patent grant
• Red Hat Inc
  • Red Hat makes patent reform a key strategy, by Antony Savvas, Wednesday 15 June 2005, ComputerWeekly.com
  • Red Hat lets go of Fedora Linux. Red Hat is creating what it calls a Software Patent Commons to encourage sharing of patents. By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
  • Red Hat gears up for patent fights on two fronts, Friday 3rd June 2005, PC Pro
  • Red Hat calls for patent policy reforms, Friday, 03 June, 2005, Sify Finance
  • Red Hat Inc. Statement of Position and Promise on Software Patents
• RTLinux
  • GPL-compliant version of RTLinux Open Patent License, from the GNU site

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End User Indemnification

• GrokLaw articles:
  • MS and Indemnification
  • Ballmer´s Email – Indemnification Comes Full Circle
  • OSRM To Offer Vendor-Neutral Indemnification — FORM
  • Novell Offers to Indemnify
  • Shared Source: Microsoft´s Version of Sharing “…the ´no indemnification´ clause”
  • A Cynical Eye on SCO, MS, and Indemnification
  • An Answer to the Indemnification FUD
• Articles by others:
  • Microsoft expands indemnification program for partners, News Story by Dan Nystedt and Elizabeth Montalbano, June 23, 2005, Computerworld
  • CIOs agree: Lack of open source indemnification not a big problem, Tuesday April 12, 2005, John Koenig, IT Manager´s Journal
  • OSDL Linux Legal Defense Fund
  • A Comparison of the GPL and the Microsoft EULA, [PDF] Con Zymaris, Cybersource, 2003

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Groups and Organizations

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Against software patents

• Myths and Truths
• Software patents – do your last bit now!, by tom on 21 June, 2005, Tom Chance
• Open Raw – Act Now!
• Why we are More Innovative without Software Patents
• The Economic Majority Against Software Patents
• The argument against software patents, posted by special contributor Christian Schaller on 2005-04-19, OSNews.com
• How to fight software patents – singly and together, Richard M. Stallman, Thursday September 09, NewsForge
• UK Resource on Software Patents
• NoSoftwarePatents.com, a campaign against the legalization of software patents — merged April 1, 2005 with FFII
• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure a non-profit association registered in several European countries
• Against Software Patents, The League for Programming Freedom, February 1991

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Campaigns Against software patents

• GrokLaw articles:
  • An Open Letter Re OASIS Patent Policy & a Call to Action
• Articles by others:
  • Claiming Economic Majorities: the Software Patent Case. June 29th 2005 – Conference in the European Parliament
  • Letter to Industry Minister about software patents, Russell McOrmond, May 31, 2005, Russell McOrmond´s blog
  • Parliament: Say NO to Software Patents!, call for action, No Software Patents!
  • Spanish universities demonstrate against software patents, Madrid, 27 April 2005, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
  • NoSoftwarePatents´ LOBBYING GUIDE [PDF], NoSoftwarePatents.com
  • Protect Innovation is the UK volunteer group of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)
  • Call for Action II, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
  • Petition Against Software Patents Petition to The United States Government

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Other Groups

• Software Patent Institute
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation and UNESCO that catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems
• EUROLINUX Alliance is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigorous European Software Culture based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source software such as Linux
• League for Programming Freedom is an organization that opposes software patents and user interface copyrights

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• GrokLaw articles:
  • The BSA Sends A Letter Re EU SW Patents
  • The Other Side of the Coin — Why Some Support EU SW Patents
  • The View from the EU Patent Proponents & Grokster
• Articles by others:
  • What’s Happening in Brussels
  • taint.org: BSA Spams Patent Holders
  • Simon Gentry and Software Patents, FFII´s profile of Simon Gentry – the Manager of C4C
  • Shoring up rights to technology inventions – EU style, Thursday 5th May 2005, written By: Bob McDowall, it-analysis.com (Bloor Research)
  • European Commission Sparks Software Patent Debate, Alan Cohen, IP Law & Business, April 27 2005, Law.com
  • A Long-Term View: Software Should Be Patentable in Europe, Michael Q. Lee, 04/06/05, LinuxInsider
  • Campaign for Creativity is an initiative supported by individuals committed to protecting and enhancing the legal environment for European´s creative communities: its artists, musicians, designers, engineers, software developers, etc.
  • Letter to Commissioner McCreevy from BSA [PDF], 21 February 2005
  • Robert J. Hart and Software Patents. About one of the leading figures of the British software patentability lobbying effort, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
  • Protecting Against Open Source Legal Risks, Updated Tuesday, January 6, 2004, Michael Overly, Optimize Magazine, InternetWeek
  • Debunking the Software Patent Myths, Paul Heckel, This article was published in the Communications of the ACM, June, 1992, Last Modified: October 26, 1995
• Pro Patents organisations:
  • European Enterprise Institute serving as a patent lobby frontend, June 12 2005
  • International Intellectual Property Institute
  • EURIM European Information Society Group
  • Intellect the trade body for the UK based information technology, telecommunications and electronics industry.
  • Patents4Innovation.org. A European pro-patent site
  • BSA Patents Page

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Companies and Nations

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US and Patents

• GrokLaw articles:
  • US Patent Reform, Wednesday, June 15 2005
  • New FOSS History Wiki Project & Ravicher Testifies to Congress on Patent Reform
  • Uh Oh – US Patent “Reform” Alert — by Marbux
• Articles by others:
  • Patent system’s problems defy easy solutions By Michael Kanellos, Staff Writer, August 4, 2005 [CNET News.com]
  • U.S. patent system has run aground, by Boston Herald editorial staff, Sunday, July 24, 2005 [Boston Herald]
  • Patent Reform Heats Up, 2005-07-17, [blackenterprise.com]
  • Sweeping Changes to the U.S. Patent System? Don’t Bet on It!, Mark Scarsi, 07-05-2005, Law.com
  • A Patent War Is Breaking Out On The Hill, Week July 4, 2005, Business Week Online
  • United States: Congressmen Introduce Sweeping Patent Reform Bill, 23 June 2005, Article by Jason A. Bernstein, Scott W. Creasman, John W. Harbin, Hilary Harp, Todd E. Jones, Ryan T. Pumpian, Charles L. Warner, James Remenick and Olivia Luk, Mondaq
  • UW is wary of changes in patent law, By Kathleen Gallagher, Posted: June 20, 2005, JS Online
  • Patent Reform Hits the Hill, James V. DeLong, Published 06/21/2005, Tech Central Station
  • A redlined version [doc format], showing the proposed changes, Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
  • A New Paradigm For Intellectual Property Rights In Software, Mark H. Webbink, Duke University School of Law : Journals
  • HR 2795, the Patent Reform Act [PDF], Mr. SMITH of Texas
  • Smith: Patent reform a top goal, by David Rupkalvis, published June 12, 2005, The Herald-Zeitung
  • Lawmakers Want "Patent Troll" Crackdown, by Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer, June 9, 2005, Los Angeles Times
  • Patent reform bill surfaces in Congress, but it is too little, too late?, June 10 2005, Tech Blogs on ZDNet
  • US Congress: Patent Act of 2005 [PDF]
  • Sweeping U.S. Patent Reform Proposed, by David Worthington, June 9, 2005, BetaNews
  • Smith Introduces Patent Reform Bill, Press Release by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), June 8, 2005
  • The Patent Reform Act of 2005, June 08, 2005, Obsidian Wings
  • Patent Reform Bill Introduced in U.S. House
  • Promote the Progress : The PTP Patent Reform Library
  • Next Steps in Patent Reform, June 5 2005, Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
  • Patent Reform: Congress Choosing Sides, May 25 2005, by Dennis Crouch, patent attorney, Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
  • High Court Must Address Patent Obviousness, Press Release May 13, 2005, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
  • A Modest Proposal, Brenda Sandburg, The Recorder, May 9 2005, law.com
  • Supreme Court: Patent Professors Support Tighter Obviousness Standard, May 13, 2005, Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
  • Industry urges Congress to bolster patent review, by Michelle Kessler, USA Today, May 8, 2005, IndyStar.com
  • Evaluating a patent system gone awry, By Jonathan Krim / The Washington Post, Friday, May 6, 2005, The Detroit News – Technology
  • Tech Wants Patent ´Trolls´ Tamed, by Roy Mark, April 26, 2005, InternetNews
  • Patent Office chief endorses legal reform, by Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, published on April 25, 2005, ZDNet News
  • Us-parl — Logic Patents in the USA, mailing list and archive
  • “Patent Act of 2005” – Draft [PDF], To amend title 35, United States Code, relating to the procurement, enforcement, and validity of patents. Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
  • PATENT REFORM: House IP Subcommittee Prepares Sweeping Patent Law Changes, April 17, 2005, Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
  • U.S. Patent Act — 35 USCS Sects. 1 – 376 The current Patent Law, Cornell´s Legal Information Institute
  • Intellectual Property in the 21st Century (PDF), January 2005, BSA

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UN and Patents

• Development Agenda Hits Obstacles at WIPO, by David Tannenbaum on Wednesday, February 23, LawMeme
• Patents for profit: dystopian visions of the new economy, Becky Hogge, March 11, 2005, openDemocracy
• Democracy and dissent at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Becky Hogge, April 26, 2005, openDemocracy

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EU and Patents

• Stories from the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure website:
  • European Parliament Says Not to Software Patents, June 06 2005
  • Speeches in EP 2005-07-05, June 05 2005
  • SAP-Info interview: Schindewolf against Software Patents, June 05 2005
  • Taylor-Wessing partner: Directive will give us US-style software patents, June 05 2005
  • SMEs call on European Parliament to Protect Them From Software Patents, June 04 2005
  • Plenary amendments: draft voting advice
  • The European Parliament’s Work on Software Patents in 2005 July 3 2005
  • Plenary amendments: draft voting advice July 3 2005
  • Swedish patent officials lobby against cross-partisan amendments
  • EP tables new amendments against software patents for plenary, July 1 2005
  • What’s hot issue: The last 10 days, 27th June 2005
  • Row over conflicts of interest of Klaus-Heiner Lehne MEP, 25th June 2005
  • Klaus-Heiner Lehne MEP: EPP coordinator for software patentability in JURI
  • BSA: Only 20% of CII are SME-owned, CII equals swpat in the US. 24th June 2005
  • Bulgarian IT companies signed a declaration put forward by FSA-Bg. It has been given to the EU embassies in Sofia.
  • Economic-Majority supports Rocard amendments, 20 June 2005
  • JURI Committee leaves Council text largely unchanged
  • FFII publishes working paper, calls for discussions within EPP, 18th June 2005
  • EICTA’s ‘air of disaster’
  • Mayors of Vienna and Munich: The wording of the directive should be absolutely clear
  • CEO of automotive technology SME grills Scania over software patents, 15 June 2005
  • German Federal Minister of Justice tempting MEPs towards Software Patents, June 09, 2005
  • FFII: NL Government Says Abort the Swpat Directive, 9 June 2005
  • FFII: BSA study concludes European SMEs barely own software patents, 8 June 2005
  • A European software patent report from FFII, Press Release FFII, Jonas Maebe, 6 Jun 2005, LWN
  • FFII: Patent administrators preempting parliaments in Council, 6 June 2005
  • Council trying to derail Parliament´s Second Reading, 4 June 2005
  • MEP Jerzy Buzek Speech at the EPP/CCIA Patent Policy Conference, Transscript of Panel Speech of Prof. Jerzy Buzek, Polish MEP for EPP ED, at the Patent Policy Conference in the European Parliament. The conference took place at 1st of June 2005.
  • JURI meeting of 23 may 2005: hearing of experts, Monday, 23 May 2005, includes links to recordings from the meeting
  • Legal-economic study: Commission text lacks legal certainty and economic rationale
  • Bessen comments "Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?"
  • June 1st Conference on Patent Policy Making, Brussels, 23 May 2005
  • Software patents: the truth [PDF], Claims made by proponents of Software Patents. Hosted on GrokLaw
  • 2005-06-01 Software Patent Conference in the European Parliament, programme
  • “SMEs, software, copyright and patents” event co-hosted by the EPO and the FFII, Brussels, 20 May 2005, press release
  • MEP Ashworth forwards latest Harbour Apologetics
  • 2005-05-09 EP publishes all amendments in original language
  • IPR Enforcement Directive implementation will equip software patentees with draconian powers
  • Europarl groups submit amendments to software patent directive, 4th May 2005
  • European Commission takes aim at third countries regarding “IPR”
  • Analysis and Rebuttal of Shoring up rights to technology inventions – EU style article. 5 May, 2005
  • EICTA sends Microsoft to represent SMEs on software patents in EP, 25 April 2005
  • Software patents Council debacle keeps haunting Danish minister Bendtsen Copenhagen, 25 April 2005
  • JURI debates Software Patents — Recording and Transcription, 21st April 2005
  • Rapporteur Rocard publishes preview of Parliament´s Software Patent Directive Position, 20 April 2005
  • FFII: EPO misinterpreting the law, Lenz analysis now in English, 17 April 2005
  • UK Patent Office Workshops Demonstrate Council Text Unsatisfactory, News
  • European Software Patents: Assorted Examples
  • Software Patents in Europe: A Short Overview
  • The UK Patent Family and Software Patents
  • Software Patents vs Parliamentary Democracy explain the state of play regarding state-granted idea monopolies
  • European Software Patent Horror Gallery, a database of the monopolies on programming problems
• GrokLaw articles about Europe and patents:
  • It’s a NO! – 648 – 14, Wednesday, July 06 2005
  • EU Software Patent Last-Minute News, Tuesday, July 05 2005
  • How SW Patents Endanger FOSS, Thursday, June 30 2005
  • Concern About Delay By EU Commission on MS
  • JURI Vote on EU SW Patent Directive Amendments, Monday, June 20 2005
  • A Groklaw Suggestion on SW Patent Wording
  • Looking for Better Wording for EU SW Patent Directive
  • Yet Another UK Patents Workshops Report – from Groklaw´s Cinly
  • Another Groklaw Report on UK Patent Workshop – by Simon G. Best
  • Reports from the UK Patent Office´s Technical Contribution Workshops
  • Slip, Sliding Away on Software Patents
  • EuroParl Press Release – The Ball is in Our Court Now
  • Reactions in Denmark to EU Council Vote See the comments
  • Transcript of EU Commission Meeting on Software Patent Directive
  • Software Patent Directive Passed as A-Item
  • Denmark: SW Patent Directive as B-Item Only on Monday
  • EU MEP Says Bill Gates Influenced No Restart Decision
  • EU Commission Reportedly Ignoring Restart Request
  • The Latest on EU SW Patents – Pics of the Demo
  • Gates v. Denmark Tuesday, February 15 2005
  • EU Commission Regrets… No SW Patents on the Agenda & R.I.P. MS?
  • Now it´s the Dutch: Parliament Votes to Block A Item on SW Patents Directive
  • UK Workshops on "Technical Effect" Wording
  • JURI Votes: It´s Restart
  • EU Patent News – Gates Visiting EU Parliament & Denmark Throws Some Helpful Tacks On the Road
  • Poland Gets a Week´s Delay on EU SW Patents
  • Deja Vu in the EU – Monday They Will Try to Rubber Stamp Software Patents. Yes. Again
  • EU – Motion to Restart the Software Patents Process
  • Poland Comes Through! – Software Patents Off the Agenda This Year
  • Report on EU Software Patents
  • Linus, Michael Widenius and Rasmus Lerdorf Oppose EU Software Patents
  • Poland Rejects Proposed EU Software Patents – Majority Now Opposed
  • More on EU Patents – The Storm is Growing
  • EU Patents – It Ain´t Over ´Til It´s Over
  • German Politician Says Germany Will Vote Against Software Patents; IT Leaders in France Ask Chirac To Do the Same
  • More Blepp and News on Software Patents in Europe See thread about “News on Software Patents in Europe”
  • Round 2 in the EU Patent Fight, a Pure Software Act Proposal, and CoLinux
• Stories from Europa – The European Union On-Line
  • Amendments for 2. Reading
  • Key vote in Parliament on software patents directive, Background Information : 30-06-2005
  • Latest on computerised inventions, News Report : 21-06-2005
  • JURI Report – Meeting in Brussels, published on Monday, 23 May 2005
  • Patent truths about the EPO, Published on 18 April 2005
  • Working Document on the patentability of computer-generated inventions, Published on 13 April 2005
  • Europe: Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions: analysis of replies to consultation
• Other European Stories:
  • Parliament proposal on software patents would hit small firms – UEAPME, 22 June 2005, EUbusiness – European Business News Online
  • EU wrestles with digital patents, By James Kanter, Wednesday, June 22, 2005, International Herald Tribune
  • Conservatives and liberals deal a blow to small business and innovation, 21 June 2005, The Greens | European Free Alliance in the European Parliament
  • Big software houses seen winners in EU patent vote, By Huw Jones, Tuesday, June 21, 2005, washingtonpost.com
  • Breakthrough for EU software patent law, Stéphanie Bodoni, June 21, 2005, Managing Intellectual Property
  • Software patents: EU parliamentarians adopt Council of Ministers´ line, 21.06.2005, heise online
  • EU jettisons software patent amendments, By Lucy Sherriff, published Tuesday 21st June 2005, The Register
  • Europe moves closer to software patents, John Walko, Junko Yoshida, 06/21/2005, EE Times
  • Showdown looms over patenting bill, Fri Jun 17, 2005, Reuters
  • Mayors of Vienna (Dr. Michael Häupl) and Munich (Christian Ude): The wording of the directive should be absolutely clear
  • Some Assembly Required. By Tomasz Teluk, published 06/16/2005, TCS contributor Tomasz Teluk talks with former Polish Prime Minister and current MEP Jerzy Buzek about intellectual property, economic growth, and the future of European political economics…. TCS: Tech Central Station
  • EU studies impact of software patents on open source, Peter Sayer, IDG News Service, May 30 2005, LinuxWorld
  • Member states keep on pushing for software patents, 15 June, 2005, European Digital Rights
  • EUROCHAMBRES – Position On Patentability Of Computer Implemented Inventions, June 2005, [pdf]
  • FSFE on Microsoft proposal to European Commission, 07 Jun 2005, LWN
  • Ireland´s software piracy rate at 38 percent; US at 22 percent, by Finfacts Team, May 18, 2005, Finfacts Business News
  • The Future of the Patent System, from the Danish Teknologirådet
  • Open letter to Microsoft Netherlands about Software Patents, May 29 2005, J.A. Bergstra, P. Klint
  • Business Method Patents in Europe – A Saussurean Explanation, April 2001, Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • The patentability of computer implemented inventions : the latest EC Council position, 23 Mai 2005, Paul Van den Bulck, Droit & Nouvelles Technologies
  • Patents & Software: Fact & Fiction [PDF], document by The UK Patent Office
  • EU takes axe to software patents directive, by Lucy Sherriff, published Wednesday 18th May 2005, The Register
  • EU seeks ´legally clever´ patent definition, by Ingrid Marson, Special to ZDNet, 18 May 2005, ZDNet Australia
  • Dramatic Changes Proposed for EU Patent Proposal, By Matthew Broersma, May 18, 2005, eWEEK
  • EU plans for software patents hit fresh obstacle, by Tobias Buck in Brusselsm May 17 2005, FT.com
  • The ultimate conference on sofware patents “Free Software and Software Patents”, Agenda, Thursday, 02 June 2005 at 09:30 AM-12:00 PM in Bruxelles/Brussel
  • Patents Directive proceedings begin again, 22/04/2005, out-law.com
  • European Parliament Debates IT Patent Proposal, By Matthew Broersma, April 22, 2005, eWEEK
  • Patents granted on Instant Messaging, posted on Kopete
  • Open source developers step up anti-patent campaign, Ingrid Marson, April 14, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • European Commission Sparks Software Patent Debate, Alan Cohen, April 27 2005, Law.com
  • UK PTO workshop divides lawyers and engineers over patents, Matt Whipp, 12:28PM, PC Pro
  • Patent directive slammed at UKPO workshop, Ingrid Marson, April 08, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • Green light for 2nd reading of Software Patent Directive, 05.04.2005, heise online
  • FSF Europe to EICTIA: Drop support for software patents, Tuesday April 05, 2005, NewsForge staff, NewsForge
  • Supporting the knowledge economy in Europe, 2005-04-02i-Newswire
  • CCIA: EU Patent Proposal Comes at a Cost of Innovation and Competition
  • Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood, Leader, January 21, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • MEPs call for fresh start on software patents, Lucy Sherriff, Published Wednesday 12th January 2005, The Register
  • Software patents: the fight in Europe, Lucy Sherriff, Wednesday 22nd December 2004, The Register
  • EU rubber stamps patent rules, by Simon Taylor, IDG News Service and Matthew Broersma, Techworld, 16 December 2004
  • Developers angry over software patent ´evasion´, Ingrid Marson, December 15, 2004, ZDNet UK
  • Linux Kernel maintainer ´barred´ from patents meeting, Matt Loney, December 08, 2004, ZDNet UK
  • Linus Torvalds slammed over software patent stance, by Mike Magee: Tuesday 30 November 2004, the INQUIRER
  • EU votes through software patent changes, Munir Kotadia, May 18, 2004 ZDNet UK
  • EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION, European Patent Office
  • FFII: EU Ambassadors vote to back Software Patents, James Heald, Friday 07 May 2004, LWN
  • EC´s Microsoft ruling sets precedent for other industries, Junko Yoshida, 03/25/2004, EE Times
  • NoSoftwarePatents.com, a campaign against the legalization of software patents
  • Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe. Petition is directed to the European Parliament and to the European Council.
  • UK Patent Office: Software Patenting Consultation (closed)
  • EU Parliament favors ban on ‘business method’ patents, By John Rega / Bloomberg News, Thursday, September 25, 2003, Detroit News – Technology

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Asia and Patents

• Amended Patents Act: A critique, July 8 2005, [India Together]
• Patents Act draft norms finalised, Gaurie Mishra / New Delhi June 23, 2005, Business Standard
• Flexibilities of TRIPs and Doha Declaration ignored, B K Keayla, 9th June 2005, Express Pharma Pulse

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Microsoft and Patents

Also see the MS Litigation page here on GrokLaw

• GrokLaw articles about Microsoft and Patents:
  • Microsoft Files to Patent Emoticon Method, Sunday, July 24 2005
  • Microsoft Hit With Preliminary Injunction in Patent Infringement Case
  • Microsoft´s US XML Patent Application
  • Microsoft Litigation Resource Page
  • MS Gets 2 New Patents
  • The EU Microsoft Decision
  • MS Is a Big Fat Patent FUDster
  • Ballmer: Use Our Software or Somebody Might Get Hurt
  • The Novell v. Microsoft Case – Statute of Limitations Explained
  • Novell To File AntiTrust Action Against MS & Settles Another for $536M
  • Step Into My Parlor, Said the Spider to the Fly — MS´s Royalty-Free Protocol Licenses
  • Microsoft´s FAT Patent Rejected by Patent Office, At PubPat´s Request
  • Setback for MS in EU Antitrust Appeal
  • MS´s Patent Purpose, second part of the article
  • Keeping an Eye on Microsoft
  • A Day to Celebrate and PUBPAT Wins Another: MS FAT Patent to be Reexamined
  • Stupid Patent Tricks About “Time based hardware button for application launch”
  • Odds and Ends, mentiona an article about “Microsoft Assembles Hefty Patent Arsenal”
  • PubPat Files Request for Reconsideration of MS´s Patent on the FAT File System
  • Microsoft Wishes to Tempt Developers With Its Code
  • MS & Sun Settle Lawsuit, Create "Patent Regime"
  • Microsoft News: Monopoly Here, Antitrust There
  • UnitedLinux Is No More & SCO Says Look for Legislation on Open Source MS registered XML-related patents in New Zealand and the EU (towards the end of the article)
  • Microsoft´s Customer Lock-in and Competition Lock-out
  • Patent News: Prior Art + Outcry = Holy Cow, It Worked!. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office agreed to re-examine the Eolas patent.
  • MS: Linux Will Be Hounded Over IP For 4 to 5 Years, about the Timeline Patent
  • Hey, quick! Anybody Got a Lid For This Coffin? Timeline´s patent
• Other articles about Microsoft and Patents:
  • Microsoft’s lawsuit payouts amount to around $9 billion, By Désiré Athow: Thursday 14 July 2005, 14:35, [the INQUIRER]
  • Opposition to Microsoft XML file-format patent mounts, Alastair Otter, July 4 2005, Tectonic
  • Microsoft’s anti spam tactics caned, Sender ID gets thumbs down, by Nick Farrell: Friday 24 June 2005, the INQUIRER
  • Microsoft to pay legal costs for partners, by Steve Lohr, The New York Times, Friday, June 24, 2005, International Herald Tribune
  • MSN Search Updates Results Based on RankNet, 6/22/2005, Search Engine Journal
  • MS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU, Peter Galli – eWEEK Fri Jun 17 Yahoo! News
  • Microsoft´s antitrust offering ´blocks Samba´, by Lucy Sherriff, published Thursday 9th June 2005, The Register
  • EU to suspend part of Microsoft ruling, by Paul Meller, Tuesday, June 7, 2005, International Herald Tribune
  • Microsoft fined $9.9M in patent case, June 6, 2005, CNN Money
  • Possible prior art for Microsoft XML patent found, Ingrid Marson, June 02, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • Microsoft defends its patents, Ingrid Marson, May 27, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • Microsoft slammed over XML patent, Ingrid Marson, May 26, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • EU Issues Ultimatum to Microsoft, May 23 2005, Deutsche Welle
  • Commission gets industry support for Microsoft case, by John Oates, published Monday 23rd May 2005, The Register
  • Microsoft sued over Excel data-linking, Reuters, May 18, 2005, MSNBC
  • Microsoft loses a round in Eolas patent case, Bloomberg News, Wednesday, May 4, 2005, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Graphics patent suit fires back at Microsoft published: April 22, 2005, by Dawn Kawamoto, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
  • Forgent Networks Sues Microsoft for Patent Infringement, press release, 21 April 2005, Market Wire
  • Microsoft patents 911, by Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco, published Wednesday 20th April 2005, The Register
  • Eolas v. Microsoft (PDF), FindLaw
  • Alacritech Granted Preliminary Injunction In Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Microsoft, press release, April 13, 2005, Alacritech
  • Legal action threatens Microsoft´s Longhorn, Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 14 Apr 2005, IT Week
  • Legal smoke affects Microsoft Chimney, Longhorn, by INQUIRER staff: Thursday 14 April 2005, the INQUIRER
  • Another Small Firm Takes On Microsoft, 12.07.04, Daniel Lyons, Forbes.com
  • New LXer database: 101 patents Microsoft may infringe, LXer
  • Software Patents: Microsoft´s Fatal Error, John C. Dvorak, 04.06.05, Opinions from PC Magazine Columnists and Editors
  • Software Patents: Microsoft´s Fatal Error, John C. Dvorak – PC Magazine, March 31 2005, ABC News
  • How Microsoft played the patent card, and failed, Andrew Orlowski, Published Thursday 23rd December 2004, The Register
  • Use Linux and you will be sued, Ballmer tells governments, John Lettice, Thursday 18th November 2004, The Register
  • Is Microsoft Taking Legal Aim at Linux?, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, November 12, 2004, eWEEK
  • Gates wants patent power, July 29, 2004, Ina Fried, CNET News.com
  • Microsoft, Apple Sued over Software-Updating Tech, Matt Hicks , July 20, 2004, eWEEK
  • BTG Sue Microsoft For Infringement Of Patents, Edited Press Release, Tuesday July 20, 1:33 PM EDT, Exite Money & Investing
  • Microsoft checks off patent win, David Becker, CNET News.com, Published on June 8, 2004, ZDNet News
  • Longhorn´s Real Job: Trying to Gore Linux, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, April 29, 2004, eWEEK
  • Microsoft Assembles Hefty Patent Arsenal, Alexander Wolfe, April 12, 2004, eWEEK
  • Eben Moglen on Microsoft´s Caller ID Patent License, Thursday February 26, 2004, Joe Barr, NewsForge
  • Gates Says SCO´s Case Against IBM Will Harm Linux´s Commercial Prospects, Paula Rooney, CRN, Friday July 25, 2003, Gates Contends Microsoft IP likely violated by open source code
  • Microsoft and Patents, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
  • Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux?, Andrew Orlowski, Monday 8th December 2003, The Register
  • FSF eases Microsoft schema patent fears, Andrew Orlowski, Tuesday 18th November 2003, The Register
  • Office 2003 XML Reference Schema Patent License
  • Microsoft vs. Timeline, Timeline Press Release
  • Microsoft Loses Patent Suit, published by Associated Press, February 23, 1994. About the data-compression program called Stacker

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IBM and Patents

• GrokLaw articles about IBM and Patents:
  • IBM´s Patent Sea Change, and “No RAND in OASIS”?
  • Red Hat – Letters to the Judge and RH Motion for Reconsideration Denied without Prejudice to Renew. See the comments section for IBM related articles
• Other articles about IBM and Patents:
  • IBM looks for profit in free patents, by Steve Lohr, The New York Times, April 10, 2005, CNET News.com
  • Research in Development, by Michael Fitzgerald, May 2005, TechnologyReview.com
  • IBM opens lid on its treasure chest, by Steve Lohr The New York Times, Monday, April 11, 2005, International Herald Tribune
  • IBM calls for patent reform, by Brendon Chase, ZDNet Australia, 11 April 2005
  • The Saga of the ARC Algorithm and Patent, 6-Feb-2005, elein at Varlena, LLC

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The SCO – IBM patent case

• GrokLaw articles about the SCO – IBM patent case:
  • SCO v. IBM June 8 Hearing Transcript – as text
  • Judge Kimball´s Order on Motions to Bifurcate and Amend Scheduling Order – as text
  • First Reports from the SCO v. IBM Hearing
  • SCO Gets 3 New IP Lawyers — They´re Not From Boies, Schiller
  • SCO Drops Its Claim That the GPL is Unconstitutional – SCO´s answer to IBM´s second amended counterclaims – as text
  • SCO Reply Memorandum In Support of its Motion for Separate Trials – as text
  • IBM Says It Will Ask for Summary Judgment When Discovery and PreTrial Motion Practice is Complete
  • IBM´s Second Amended Counterclaims Lists 9 Newly Registered Copyrights
  • SCO Memorandum in Support of Motion to Bifurcate – as text
  • Comparative Charts – IBM Counterclaims and SCO´s Answers and Affirmative Defenses
  • SCO´s Amended Answer to IBM´s Amended Counterclaims
  • Project Monterey Agreement
  • Table – IBM Counterclaims and Both SCO Answers
  • SCO´s amended answer to IBM´s amended counterclaims They would like us to believe that IBM deliberately tried to hide prior art on four different patents. Have a look at some of the comments, particularly the ones by Cesar Rincon
  • IBM´s Memorandum in Support of Motion to Strike – as text
  • IBM´s Motion to Strike SCO´s Affirmative Defenses- as text
  • IBM´s Unpublished Cases, Exhibit 3 to their Memorandum in Support of Motion to Strike PJ explains the cases on which IBM relies in support of its motion (The counterclaim)
  • IBM´s Amended Counterclaims Against SCO as Text, Sept. 25, 2003
  • New Groklaw Feature: Side-by-Side Comparison of IBM Counterclaims and SCO Answer
• Other articles about the SCO – IBM patent case:
  • IBM Ups SCO Lawsuit Ante to Include Copyright and Patent Infringement, Mike Angelo, 14 August 2003, MozillaQuest
• The SCO – IBM patents:
  • United States Patent No. 4,814,746, March 21, 1989, Miller et al. “Data Compression Method”.
  • United States Patent No. 4,821,211, April 11, 1989, Torres. “Method of Navigating Among Program Menus Using a Graphical Menu Tree”. – (Dropped)
  • United States Patent No. 4,953,209, August 28, 1990, Ryder et al. “Self-Verifying Receipt and Acceptance System for Electronically Delivered Data Objects”.
  • United States Patent No. 5,805,785, September 8, 1998, Dias et al. “Method for Monitoring and Recovery of Subsystems in a Distributed/Clustered System”.

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Other Patent Cases

• GrokLaw articles about Other Patent Cases:
  • Now They´re Patenting Medical Facts? – Oh, Brother
  • The Patent Conversation Continues — Sun´s Jonathan Schwartz
  • Sun and Kodak Settle for $92 Million
  • Kodak Wins Java Lawsuit Against Sun
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Forgent Proves Once Again That Patents and Software Need to Get a Divorce
  • FUD Mud. Are you safer using proprietary code; listing of some cases
• Other articles about Other Patent Cases:
  • Innovation or Patent Colonialism, Alolita Sharma, technetra
  • Extensis in font patent victory, by Macworld staff, Wednesday, May 11, 2005, Macworld UK
  • Scientific Games Files Patent Infringement Suit Against GTECH [PDF], Monday May 9, Press Release, Scientific Games Corporation
  • Fortinet settles GPL violation suit, Ingrid Marson, April 26, 2005, ZDNet UK
  • Will Sony Have to Stop Selling PlayStations?, Martyn Williams, IDG News Service, About
  • RSA & Schnorr stifle cryptography-based e-commerce, page on the RSA patent, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
  • Did RIM Pay Too Soon?, Lorraine Woellert, April 8, 2005, BusinessWeek Online
  • Blizzard v. BNETD, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  • Examples of granted European business method patents, Arnoud Engelfriet, Last updated: 04 January 2004, Ius mentis
  • RubiCAD folds after refusing to pursue patent fight, Mike Santarini, 12/15/2004, EE Times
  • Trade deal exports DMCA down under, Declan McCullagh, August 3, 2004, CNET News.com
  • Oracle´s CMS patent, Weekly Edition for July 15, 2004, LWN.net
  • The Gates Case – The Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison Test
  • Determining the scope of a patent, Arnoud Engelfriet, Last updated: 04 January 2004, Ius mentis
  • “Markman” Hearings – Transforming Northern District of California Patent Litigation, March 17, 2000, Townsend and Townsend and Crew
  • A ´Markman´ Hearing Can Determine Case, Reprinted from The National Law Journal May 24, 1999, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP
  • Gottschalk v Benson, 409 U.S. 63 (1972), algorithms cannot be patented. The Commissioner of Patents petitioned the Supreme Court to review a decision of an appellate court in which the appellate court overturned a decision by a patent examiner refusing to grant a patent on a computer-related invention.
  • Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978), mathematical formulae cannot be patented
  • Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981), a process for manufacturing rubber can be patented, even though the process involves solving a mathematical formula using a computer. The Commissioner of Patents petitioned to have the Supreme Court review a decision of an appellate court in which the appellate court overturned a decision by a patent examiner refusing to grant a patent on a computer program.
  • The winning law firm´s summary of the Federal Circuit decision in In re Alappat (1994) in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit "overturned a long standing Patent Office policy of denying patents on inventions that could be functionally implemented in software."
  • Gaia Technologies, Inc. v. Reconversion Technologies, Inc., et al, an agreement to assign, is not an assignment
  • Jay Walker´s patent mania, Mark Gimein, August. 27, 1999, Salon.com
  • Using the RSA Algorithm for Encryption and Digital Signatures: Can You Encrypt, Decrypt, Sign and Verify without Infringing the RSA Patent?. Patrick J. Flinn and James M. Jordan III, © 1997 Alston & Bird LLP, July 9, 1997, CyberLaw

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MetaLink Collections

• Taylor Wessing, German law firm’s link page.
• Patent Searching aggregated list of patent search sites
• Software Patent News from Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• Searchable Intellectual Property Databases – Updated, by Kathy Biehl, Published July 15, 2002, LLRX.com
• U.S. Supreme Court Research – Select Internet Sites, by Elizabeth Lambert, Published May 15, 2002, LLRX.com
• Intellectual Property, Patent, and Law Resources, KinsellaLaw IP/Patent/Law Resources
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse tracks bad patents, has a good FAQ on patents.
• DOJ/Antitrust: Other Antitrust Sites Worldwide, US Department of Justice
• Research on the MacroEconomic Effects of Software Patents, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• Mayall´s IP Links. Want patent law – which country?, which continent?
• Useful Patent Internet Sites, the links page
• European Patent Office. Links to Intelectual Property Related Sites on the Internet
• Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, select the links menu
• British Library – Patents Information the links page
• IP Menu includes lots of country-specific information
• Rossco´s Patent Searching links to patent databases

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Chronological list of GrokLaw articles that refer to patents

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July 2005 – December 2005:

• CRS Reports Now Available to Public, Monday, August 29 2005
• The Symbol/Cognex-Lemelson Patent Battle, Monday, August 22 2005
• Hey. This First-to-File Thing Is Scary, Monday, August 15 2005
• Patent Infringement Lawsuits That Involve FOSS, Wednesday, August 10 2005
• OSDL Announces Patent Commons Project, Tuesday, August 09 2005
• Keeping it Clean – Sourceforge and Eclipse Foundation To Work with Palamida and Black Duck, Wednesday, August 03 2005
• Microsoft Files to Patent Emoticon Method, Sunday, July 24 2005
• The Standards Battle is Joined, Friday, July 15 2005
• More on Silly Lawsuits – Internet Archive and the BBC Flap, Wednesday, July 13 2005
• It’s a NO! – 648 – 14, Wednesday, July 06 2005
• EU Software Patent Last-Minute News, Tuesday, July 05 2005

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January 2005 – June 2005:

• How SW Patents Endanger FOSS, Thursday, June 30 2005
• The MA Software Council’s OSS SIG Kickoff Meeting, Thursday, June 30 2005
• Concern About Delay By EU Commission on MS, Tuesday, June 28 2005
• JURI Vote on EU SW Patent Directive Amendments, Monday, June 20 2005
• The BSA Sends A Letter Re EU SW Patents, Saturday, June 18 2005
• US Patent Reform, Wednesday, June 15 2005
• New FOSS History Wiki Project & Ravicher Testifies to Congress on Patent Reform, Wednesday, June 08 2005
• Groklaw´s Software Patents Definition Update, Friday, June 03 2005
• A Groklaw Suggestion on SW Patent Wording, Wednesday, June 01 2005
• EU Software Patents – What´s Next & Some Testimonies, Monday, May 30 2005
• Stallman on Nokia Patent Statement, Monday, May 30 2005
• Nokia Offers Patents to Linux Kernel, Friday, May 27 2005
• Looking for Better Wording for EU SW Patent Directive, Monday, May 23 2005
• A Prior Art How To, Friday, May 13 2005
• A New Expression for “Reverse Engineering”?, Friday, May 06 2005
• Microsoft — Can We Talk?, Saturday, April 30 2005
• Uh Oh – US Patent “Reform” Alert– by Marbux, Wednesday, April 20 2005
• Patent Resource Page, Tuesday, April 19 2005
• How Software Patents Actually Work, an Animation by Gavin Hill, Tuesday, April 19 2005
• Duke Law School´s “Patents v. Open Source” Seminar – webcasts, Monday, April 18 2005
• Microsoft Hit With Preliminary Injunction in Patent Infringement Case Wednesday, April 13 2005
• Yet Another UK Patents Workshops Report – from Groklaw´s Cinly Tuesday, April 12 2005
• IBM´s Patent Sea Change, and “No RAND in OASIS”? Monday, April 11 2005
• Another Groklaw Report on UK Patent Workshop – by Simon G. Best Monday, April 11 2005
• MS and XML – The Steamroller Pushes Ahead Monday, April 11 2005
• Red Hat – Letters to the Judge and RH Motion for Reconsideration Denied without Prejudice to Renew Saturday, April 09 2005. See comments section for IBM related articles
• Hints About GPL3 Thursday, March 31 2005
• Evaluating Massachusetts´ Open Formats Proposal Wednesday, March 30 2005
• Now They´re Patenting Medical Facts? – Oh, Brother Monday, March 28 2005
• Symposium on Current Trends in the Free Software and OS Movements Tomorrow in NH Friday, March 25 2005
• ADTI Has Another Study; Marbux Finds a Patent-Open Standards Primer Friday, March 25 2005
• Microsoft Bends for the GPL to Qualify as Open Format in MA Thursday, March 24 2005
• MA Posts New Version of Open Formats – Requests Comments Tuesday, March 22 2005
• Reports from the UK Patent Office´s Technical Contribution Workshops Saturday, March 19 2005
• Slip, Sliding Away on Software Patents Thursday, March 17 2005
• Irish Linux Groups Write Their MEPs About SW Patents Wednesday, March 16 2005
• Microsoft´s US XML Patent Application Tuesday, March 15 2005
• More on EU Software Patents, Prior Art, and Another NZ MS XML Patent Tuesday, March 15 2005
• The Other Side of the Coin — Why Some Support EU SW Patents Monday, March 14 2005
• EuroParl Press Release – The Ball is in Our Court Now Wednesday, March 09 2005
• Reactions in Denmark to EU Council Vote Tuesday, March 08 2005
• Transcript of EU Commission Meeting on Software Patent Directive Monday, March 07 2005
• Software Patent Directive Passed as A-Item Monday, March 07 2005
• Denmark: SW Patent Directive as B-Item Only on Monday Friday, March 04 2005
• EU MEP Says Bill Gates Influenced No Restart Decision Thursday, March 03 2005
• EU Commission Reportedly Ignoring Restart Request Monday, February 28 2005
• Classes in Patents, Copyright, and Trademarks for Free Online From WIPO Friday, February 25 2005
• So, *Now* How Do You Feel About Software Patents? Thursday, February 24 2005
• An Open Letter Re OASIS Patent Policy & a Call to Action Tuesday, February 22 2005
• How Not to Kill the Golden Goose Monday, February 21 2005
• The Latest on EU SW Patents – Pics of the Demo Friday, February 18 2005
• Cerf and Kahn Win Turing Award Wednesday, February 16 2005
• LinuxWorld Tuesday, February 15 2005
• Gates v. Denmark Tuesday, February 15 2005
• EU Commission Regrets… No SW Patents on the Agenda & R.I.P. MS? Friday, February 11 2005
• Now it´s the Dutch: Parliament Votes to Block A Item on SW Patents Directive Thursday, February 10 2005
• UK Workshops on "Technical Effect" Wording Sunday, February 06 2005
• Sun Responds to Criticism of CDDL Saturday, February 05 2005
• JURI Votes: It´s Restart Wednesday, February 02 2005
• Sun´s Schwartz and McNealy: Patent Pledge Only for CDDL Licensees Wednesday, February 02 2005
• Sun Begins to Respond to Patent Questions Tuesday, February 01 2005
• EU Patent News – Gates Visiting EU Parliament & Denmark Throws Some Helpful Tacks On the Road Sunday, January 30 2005
• The Future Is Open: What OpenDocument Is And Why You Should Care ~ by Daniel Carrera Sunday, January 30 2005
• Patent Questions About the CDDL Friday, January 28 2005
• SCO´s Objections to Notice of Deposition (the Compression Notice) – as text Thursday, January 27 2005
• Sun´s 1600 Patents, OpenSolaris, and CDDL Wednesday, January 26 2005
• The Tables Are Turned – SCO Objects to IBM´s Discovery Demands Wednesday, January 26 2005
• SCO Considering Next Steps After DC Setback & Another Novell Delay Tuesday, January 25 2005
• Poland Gets a Week´s Delay on EU SW Patents Monday, January 24 2005
• Deja Vu in the EU – Monday They Will Try to Rubber Stamp Software Patents. Yes. Again Friday, January 21 2005
• No, Virginia. Actually, There Is No Santa Claus Saturday, January 15 2005
• MA Says MS Agrees to Change XML License To Meet New Open Format Standard Friday, January 14 2005
• Study Says 30% of Patents Are Duplicative and Thus Invalid Friday, January 14 2005
• IBM Gives FOSS Free Access to 500 Patents – Rethinks IP Management Monday, January 10 2005
• EU – Motion to Restart the Software Patents Process Monday, January 10 2005
• Microsoft Litigation Resource Page Friday, January 07 2005
• Top Intellectual Property Law Issues of 2005, by Wolf, Greenfield Thursday, January 06 2005
• MS Gets 2 New Patents Tuesday, January 04 2005

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July 2004 – December 2004:

• Antitrust Law Can Curtail or Trump a Patent – Patent Lesson One, by marbux Thursday, December 30 2004
• The EU Microsoft Decision Thursday, December 23 2004
• Poland Comes Through! – Software Patents Off the Agenda This Year Tuesday, December 21 2004
• Report on EU Software Patents Monday, December 20 2004
• Sun´s Proposed CDDL License – Feedback Requested Sunday, December 05 2004
• Two Journalists Don´t Understand Open Source and the Penguin Marches On Thursday, December 02 2004
• Linus, Michael Widenius and Rasmus Lerdorf Oppose EU Software Patents Tuesday, November 23 2004
• IBM Files Declarations and An Idea to Deal with Stupid Patent Tricks Tuesday, November 23 2004
• OSRM Saturday, November 20 2004. Mentions patent FUD from SCO. More patent talk in the comments.
• Sun´s Jonathan Schwartz Will Take Your Questions Now Friday, November 19 2004
• MS Is a Big Fat Patent FUDster Thursday, November 18 2004
• Ballmer: Use Our Software or Somebody Might Get Hurt Thursday, November 18 2004
• Poland Rejects Proposed EU Software Patents – Majority Now Opposed Wednesday, November 17 2004
• The Novell v. Microsoft Case – Statute of Limitations Explained Sunday, November 14 2004
• MS and Indemnification Thursday, November 11 2004
• The FTC Summit on Email Authentication and more on Patents Tuesday, November 09 2004
• FTC Email Authentication Summit and Sender ID Tuesday, November 09 2004
• Novell To File AntiTrust Action Against MS & Settles Another for $536M Monday, November 08 2004
• Step Into My Parlor, Said the Spider to the Fly — MS´s Royalty-Free Protocol Licenses Monday, November 08 2004
• Ballmer´s Email – Indemnification Comes Full Circle Wednesday, October 27 2004
• The Patent Conversation Continues — Sun´s Jonathan Schwartz Wednesday, October 20 2004
• Richard Stallman on Software Idea Patents Monday, October 18 2004
• Novell´s New Patent Policy Tuesday, October 12 2004
• Patents – An Alternative View Monday, October 11 2004
• Sun and Kodak Settle for $92 Million Thursday, October 07 2004
• Larry Rosen, the FTC, Open Standards, and Why FOSS Matters Monday, October 04 2004
• Kodak Wins Java Lawsuit Against Sun Sunday, October 03 2004
• More on Sender ID – A Little Water Under That Bridge? and MS-EU Hearing Report Friday, October 01 2004
• Microsoft´s FAT Patent Rejected by Patent Office, At PubPat´s Request Thursday, September 30 2004
• Reverse Engineering Thursday, September 30 2004
• Sun and Brand X Open Source Tuesday, September 28 2004
• On FOSS, IP Laws, and Expanding Legal Choices Sunday, September 26 2004
• For Now, Sender ID is Dead and MARID Shuts Down Thursday, September 23 2004
• Standards, Dell and Microsoft Monday, September 20 2004
• Sender ID Dead for Now and SUN-MS Agreement RE Open Office Tuesday, September 14 2004
• Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? – No MARID Working Group Consensus Wednesday, September 08 2004
• Sender ID and Almost-Open Standards Tuesday, September 07 2004
• Patents – Why Free/Open Source Software Might Have Less to Fear than Non-Free Software, by Dan Ravicher Wednesday, September 01 2004
• SCO Downsizing, Worries About Hostile Takeover, Caps Legal Fees Tuesday, August 31 2004
• Some Advice & a New Book by Larry Rosen, and an Open Source, Open Standards Conference Tuesday, August 24 2004
• The View from the EU Patent Proponents & Grokster Saturday, August 21 2004
• Linus on Patents, Innovation . . . and Groklaw Wednesday, August 18 2004
• Setback for MS in EU Antitrust Appeal Thursday, August 12 2004
• Munich Going Forward with Linux Wednesday, August 11 2004
• Red Hat on Patents and Der Spiegel on EU, MS, and Patents Sunday, August 08 2004
• Munich´s Mayor on LiMux and Other Examples of Software Patents Hindering Progress Saturday, August 07 2004
• Reflections on Intellectual Property Rights, by John H Terpstra Thursday, August 05 2004
• IBM Pledges Not To Use Patents Against Linux Wednesday, August 04 2004
• IBM Donates Cloudscape to Apache Foundation & MS´s Patent Purpose Tuesday, August 03 2004
• Sun Claims It Is Considering Buying Novell Monday, August 02 2004
• Two FSF Seminars on the GPL in California August 24 and 25 Tuesday, July 27 2004. Mentions a seminar by the Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation
• Keeping an Eye on Microsoft Tuesday, July 20 2004
• Why Program Code Isn´t the Same as a Novel, by k12linux Friday, July 16 2004
• The Gates Case – The Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison Test Friday, July 16 2004
• More on EU Patents – The Storm is Growing Thursday, July 08 2004
• Hunting for Prior Art on the Acacia Patent and Other Strategies Saturday, July 03 2004
• Dutch Parliament Withdraws Support for Software Patents Friday, July 02 2004
• SCO v. IBM June 8 Hearing Transcript – as text Thursday, July 01 2004

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January 2004 – June 2004:

• Darl McBride, the Man Nobody Bothers to Hate, and His Buddy Mike Anderer Cook Up a Scheme Wednesday, June 23 2004
• EU Patents – It Ain´t Over ´Til It´s Over Tuesday, June 22 2004
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee: How the WWW Might Never Have Happened Tuesday, June 15 2004
• A Day to Celebrate and PUBPAT Wins Another: MS FAT Patent to be Reexamined Friday, June 11 2004
• Judge Kimball´s Order on Motions to Bifurcate and Amend Scheduling Order – as text Friday, June 11 2004
• First Reports from the SCO v. IBM Hearing Tuesday, June 08 2004
• SCO Gets 3 New IP Lawyers — They´re Not From Boies, Schiller Tuesday, June 08 2004
• Stupid Patent Tricks Saturday, June 05 2004
• EFF Starts Patent-Busting Project Saturday, May 29 2004
• UNIX Timeline Project — Grokline´s Status Friday, May 21 2004
• German Politician Says Germany Will Vote Against Software Patents; IT Leaders in France Ask Chirac To Do the Same Thursday, May 13 2004
• PubPat Wins a Reexamination of Cotransformation Patent Monday, May 10 2004
• More Blepp and News on Software Patents in Europe Saturday, May 08 2004
• Odds and Ends Saturday, May 01 2004
• SCO Drops Its Claim That the GPL is Unconstitutional – SCO´s answer to IBM´s second amended counterclaims – as text Thursday, April 29 2004
• New Patent Proposals: It Shouldn´t Be Obvious, for Starters Wednesday, April 28 2004
• Forgent Proves Once Again That Patents and Software Need to Get a Divorce Saturday, April 24 2004
• SCO Reply Memorandum In Support of its Motion for Separate Trials – as text Wednesday, April 21 2004
• PubPat Files Request for Reconsideration of MS´s Patent on the FAT File System Thursday, April 15 2004
• IBM Says It Will Ask for Summary Judgment When Discovery and PreTrial Motion Practice is Complete Wednesday, April 14 2004
• Round 2 in the EU Patent Fight, a Pure Software Act Proposal, and CoLinux Saturday, April 10 2004
• Microsoft Wishes to Tempt Developers With Its Code Thursday, April 08 2004
• Robin Bloor Grokking the GPL Saturday, April 03 2004
• MS & Sun Settle Lawsuit, Create "Patent Regime" Saturday, April 03 2004
• IBM´s Second Amended Counterclaims Lists 9 Newly Registered Copyrights Wednesday, March 31 2004
• SCO Memorandum in Support of Motion to Bifurcate – as text Tuesday, March 30 2004
• SCO´s Motion to Bifurcate and Memorandum in Support Monday, March 29 2004
• Novell´s Reply Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss – Annotated Sunday, March 28 2004
• Comparative Charts – IBM Counterclaims and SCO´s Answers and Affirmative Defenses Sunday, March 14 2004
• SCO´s Amended Answer to IBM´s Amended Counterclaims Saturday, March 13 2004
• Anderer´s "Old Think" Tries to Justify A Dying Business Model Friday, March 12 2004
• Project Monterey Agreement Sunday, March 07 2004
• Eben Moglen´s Harvard Speech – The Transcript Thursday, February 26 2004
• Microsoft News: Monopoly Here, Antitrust There Wednesday, February 25 2004
• Table – IBM Counterclaims and Both SCO Answers Monday, February 09 2004
• SCO´s amended answer to IBM´s amended counterclaims Saturday, February 07 2004
• Patent News From PubPat and IBM Thursday, February 05 2004
• UnitedLinux Is No More & SCO Says Look for Legislation on Open Source Friday, January 23 2004
• SCO Reacts to Novell´s Indemnification Tuesday, January 13 2004
• OSRM To Offer Vendor-Neutral Indemnification — FORM Tuesday, January 13 2004
• Novell Offers to Indemnify Monday, January 12 2004
• Interview About Patents with Dan Ravicher Saturday, January 10 2004

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January 2003 – December 2003:

• IBM´s Memorandum in Support of Motion to Strike – as text Saturday, December 27 2003
• IBM´s Motion to Strike SCO´s Affirmative Defenses- as text Saturday, December 27 2003
• IBM´s Unpublished Cases, Exhibit 3 to their Memorandum in Support of Motion to Strike Friday, December 26 2003
• "No One Respects a Bully" Tuesday, December 16 2003
• Eldred v. Ashcroft – Justice Breyer´s Dissenting Opinion, Monday, December 08 2003
• The 1995 Novell-SCO Asset Purchase Agreement´s Schedules Sunday, December 07 2003
• The Linux Show´s Town Hall Meeting Transcript Tuesday, December 02 2003
• SCO Would Like A Month´s Delay to Get a Patent Attorney Monday, December 01 2003
• Microsoft´s Customer Lock-in and Competition Lock-out Friday, November 21 2003
• A Cynical Eye on SCO, MS, and Indemnification Monday, November 17 2003
• Asset Purchase Agreement Sunday, November 16 2003
• Patent News: Prior Art + Outcry = Holy Cow, It Worked! Thursday, November 13 2003
• SCO Supplemental Answers to IBM´s 1st Set of Interrogatories Tuesday, November 11 2003
• It´s Official. China Goes Linux. Gartner Says US Will Follow. And Darl´s No Free Linux Speech. Thursday, November 06 2003
• Public Patent Foundation Announced & Sun Digs a Patent Hole For Itself Tuesday, November 04 2003
• IBM´s Amended Counterclaims Against SCO as Text, Sept. 25, 2003 Sunday, November 02 2003
• New Groklaw Feature: Side-by-Side Comparison of IBM Counterclaims and SCO Answer Saturday, November 01 2003
• SCO Has a Patent — Not Linux Kernel-Related Sunday, August 31 2003
• An Answer to the Indemnification FUD Saturday, August 16 2003
• "Death to Linux"? No, an IBM Countersuit Instead Thursday, August 07 2003
• Caldera´s Linux Contributions Were Official, not by Rogue Employees Wednesday, July 30 2003
• MS: Linux Will Be Hounded Over IP For 4 to 5 Years Sunday, July 27 2003
• Linus: "The Most Important Thing Has Always Been That People Be Able to Trust Me" Tuesday, July 15 2003
• Patents and Copyright: Two Different Purposes Saturday, July 05 2003
• FUD Mud Wednesday, July 02 2003
• O, What a Tortuous Web We Weave… Tuesday, June 24 2003
• And They Call Linus Careless Wednesday, June 18 2003
• Hey, quick! Anybody Got a Lid For This Coffin? Monday, June 02 2003
• Novell Scores a Touchdown – SCO Statement Wednesday, May 28 2003

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