The Peer to Patent Project Has Begun - 5 patents listed
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| What the USPTO is also looking for is whether or not the application is
| sufficiently new and nonobvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art
| to qualify for a patent under current law. Trust me when I tell you that
| the USPTO has no clue when it comes to FOSS prior art. If you could have
| blocked Amazon's One-Click patent application so it never issued, would
| you have?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070617081530669
Related:
Patent Office Plans Peer Review Project
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| The one-year community review project will give outside experts in
| computer technology the opportunity to submit technical references
| relevant to the claims of a published patent application before an
| examiner reviews it, according to the PTO.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070607/patent_peer_review.html?.v=1
Timeline: Court rules Microsoft patent deal can't be terminated
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| Timeline Inc. said a U.S court has ruled that the company's patent
| agreement with Microsoft Corp. cannot be terminated, and that
| Timeline's remedy for any alleged breaches would be to seek damages.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070604:MTFH22685_2007-06-04_10-54-25_WNAS3019&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/2xb83a
Raytheon inventions are programs and not patentable
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| The High Court has backed the Comptroller General of Patents in refusing
| a company a patent for inventions which were computer programs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/04/raytheon_patent_denial/
Kill the patents, kill the problem
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| Whatever Novell's motivations in its dealing with Microsoft and
| subsequently with the EFF, the fact remains that if software
| patents are shown to be the harmful and counterproductive
| mistake we believe them to be, the industry will benefit in
| many ways. The community must remain united with this in mind.
| Nothing else matters.
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http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39287268,00.htm?r=2
The Patent Puzzle
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| Patent fights are fights about money. The secondary issue, the one
| that makes the headlines, is control. To really understand what's
| going on in the current patent posturing involving Microsoft, Novell,
| and a host of open-source companies and groups, it helps to keep
| those factors firmly in mind.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2138111,00.asp
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