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[News] Software Patents and Patenting Art

  • Subject: [News] Software Patents and Patenting Art
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:45:04 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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If you thought software patents were bad...

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| Instead, he's talking about what amounts to the instructions for making a 
| specific movie: a script. 
| 
| A script defines the appearance of sets, lines for actors to read, camera 
| angles and lighting to be used during the production, and a specific sequence 
| of scenes that express a story. By any reasonable standard, a script is a 
| description of a process. It seems to meet the requirements of 35 USC 101: 
| it's new (in the sense of being original or novel), and it's useful because 
| it tells us how to make a movie.     
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9744783-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Related:

EFF lawyer warns of e-learning patent dangers

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| Although Blackboard has publicly pledged not to enforce its patent
| against open-source software distributors, universities, or
| non-commercial entities, there are many gray areas that make it
| difficult to guess what is permissible and what is not. For
| instance, Schultz points out that the pledge allows Blackboard
| to sue proprietary software vendors that incorporate open-source
| software components into their offerings.
| 
| Comparing Blackboard to "a schoolyard bully who holds a huge club
| over your head and promises not to hit you as long as you don't
| play with certain other kids on the playground," Schultz believes
| that Blackboard's pledge is "a nice gesture" but lacks the efficacy
| and legal significance of an official royalty-free patent license. 
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070408-eff-lawyer-warns-of-e-learning-patent-dangers.html
http://tinyurl.com/26nko9


Analysis: Less patent shield for code

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| Clearing the way for wider worldwide distribution of computer
| software code, and saving Microsoft Corp. millions of dollars in patent 
| damages, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that it is not illegal to send 
| Windows code abroad for copying and installing in foreign-made computers, 
| even if the code incorporates a part of someone else's patented invention.
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http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/04/analysis_less_p.html


Supreme Court to Patent Appeals Court: Drop Dead

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| Then the justices cupped their hands astride their mouths and
| shouted in unison: Fewer patents!
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http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.com/2007/05/01/supreme-court-to-patent-appeals-court-drop-dead/
http://tinyurl.com/23lwp9


Patently wrong

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| Every schoolyard has a bully who uses his size to intimidate the 
| other kids, or a rich brat who threatens to take his ball home if
| he doesn't get his way.
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_may22_2007


Dell Signs on With Microsoft, Novell

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| The pact between Microsoft and Novell is primarily aimed at the
| growing number of major companies and government agencies that
| rely on both Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's patent-protected 
| Windows and Novell's open-source Linux platform to run their computers.
| 
| To encourage more companies to choose Novell's open-source
| platform, Microsoft has promised not to file patent-rights
| lawsuits over any of its technology that's blended with Suse Linux.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070507/dell_microsoft_novell.html?.v=4

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