Patent Sanity
By Mark H. Webbink
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| For years, many in the software industry have expressed concern over software
| and business method patents and the patent system.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4168
Mark Webbink Joins Board of Software Freedom Law Center
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| This is good news, that Mark Webbink has joined the board of the Software
| Freedom Law Center. Good news for the FOSS community. For him, I think the
| idea of a laid back, restful retirement is now just a dream.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071010100411901
Vonage agrees settlement on Sprint lawsuit
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| Vonage Holdings, the internet phone company, agreed on Monday to pay $80m to
| settle a patent suit filed by Sprint Nextel, the third largest US mobile
| carrier.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21195779/
Lawyers face sanctions in Qualcomm suit
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| Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. dueled Friday in federal court with its hired
| attorneys over who shoulders the blame for what a judge called "gross
| misconduct on a massive scale" at a past trial.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_hi_te/qualcomm_lawyers
Patent suit targets Red Hat and Novell
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| Intellectual property licensing firms IP Innovation and Technology Licensing
| Corporation have filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell for alleged
| patent infringements in their Linux distributions.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201116/red-hat-novell-targeted-patent
Prior Art - What's a Claim Limitation?
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| It's a 2005 case, so a lot has happened in the meantime. Oh, and if you are
| looking for prior art, the patent to look at first would be the oldest one of
| the ones IP Innovation has claimed in the Red Hat litigation. That is the one
| that I think needs to be knocked out either by prior art or by obviousness.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071013120300438
Lots of noise, but it's only junk patents and patent trolls. Another SCO-like
dummy perhaps.
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