Barracuda Networks Asks For Help Finding Prior Art to Defend ClamAV - Updated
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| We have another Pick Your Brain request. This one comes from Barracuda
| Networks, the email and web security appliances company, but it's about an
| attack on ClamAV, the Open Source antivirus product.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713
Software patent case defendant seeks support of FOSS community
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| Barracuda Networks is actively seeking the support of the free and open
| source software (FOSS) community in its battle against a patent suit brought
| against it by Trend Micro. The suit revolves around Barracuda's distribution
| of Clam Antivirus (ClamAV), the well-known FOSS security software, with its
| firewall and Web filter hardware appliances.
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| The case is the second piece of software patent litigation to directly
| involve FOSS. The first was a case brought against Red Hat and Novell by IP
| Innovation for the inclusion of virtual workspaces in their Linux
| distributions.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/125807
Related:
Re: patents on Frets on Fire, Pydance, StepMania and such games
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| Software patents continue to chill adoption of innovations. Fight the
| corresponding legislation at every opportunity.
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/01/msg00157.html
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
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| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
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| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
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| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
A Patent Lie
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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
|
| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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