1 day ago by Michael Stal

According to news magazines, people worldwide are more and more against ACTA. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is intended to reduce copyright infringement and stealing of intellectual property rights. However, opponents fear the loss of civil rights. And the treaty may also have a large impa ...

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14 days ago by infram

heise online | US-Studie beziffert Schäden durch Patent-Trolle auf viele Milliarden. Filed under: Misc Tagged: patent, software, software patents

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14 days ago by infram

heise online | Richard Stallman warnt vor EU-Einheitspatent. Filed under: Misc Tagged: patent, software, software patents

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19 days ago by lnxwalt

Joel Spolsky – Google+ – Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I’ll shut up (1) … (1) The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something away from us… then we carefully defend that one thing and never counter-attack. Then the other side says, “OK, compromise,” and gets hal ...

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28 days ago by Lior Kaplan

The Israeli patent registrar have reverted previous ruling regarding patents on software and published a draft for the procedures to accept such patents. The procedures are open to public comments for the next 30 days. Two years ago the patent registrar have started to consider revising the the issu ...

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41 days ago by Eric Waltmire

Ultramercial v. Hulu, Dkt. No. 2010-1544 (Fed. Cir. Sept 15, 2011) [ PDF]. Ultramercial sued Hulu, YouTube, and Wildtangent Inc. alleging each infringed U.S. Patent 7,346,545. Hulu and YouTube were dismissed from the case. The trial court granted WildTangent’s motion to dismiss WildTangent from the ...

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44 days ago by J.Sai Deepak

This post continues from the last post on the IPAB order on Yahoo's patent application. Brief Facts Title of the Invention: System and Method for influencing a position on a search result listing generated by a computer network search engine Date of Filing: May 12, 2004 (with a priority date of May ...

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53 days ago by glyn moody

At the end of last week, the Council of the European Union – which is where national ministers from each EU country meet to adopt laws and coordinate policies – had a meeting. A group of some 40 ministers for agriculture and fisheries signed off on a range of important matters, including: On Techdir ...

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67 days ago by glyn moody

The idea of bringing in a unitary EU patent system has been rolling around Brussels so long most people have assumed it will never happen. But there is a clear push on at the moment to realise these plans once and for all. That's hinted at in this very low-key press release from yesterday [. pdf]: O ...

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69 days ago by Narendra

Transcript from rt.com Free software literally gives you freedom in the area of computing. It means that you can control [...]