VoIP Patent Suits Continue: Cox’s Turn
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| Patent lawsuits have long been used as a competitive weapon in many
| industries. Telecom is now getting their fair share. Vonage suffered a series
| of patent lawsuits from competitors last year, and now Verizon is suing Cox
| Communications on similar grounds.
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http://telecompetitor.com/node/471
Pro-software patent conference "What IT Practitioners Need To Know", London,
31st January
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| From the lawyers point of view: "Many American businesses are adept at using
| software patents to their advantage".
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-36496/pro-software-patent-conference-what-it-practitioners-need-to-know-london-31st-january
Related:
Halliburton loses software patent appeal in UK
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| England's Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that two
| software-related patents were invalid. Oil giant Halliburton's
| attempts to patent in the UK a software system for designing drill
| bits has failed.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/18/halliburton_loses_software_patentt_appeal/
Inventor of revoked payment patent says UK system is a joke
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| A patent for the handling of gratuities in card payments has been revoked by
| the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) for being a business method
| implemented by a computer program. The decision follows recently-revised
| guidance on patentability.
|
| One of the inventors told OUT-LAW today that his company spent more than
| £100,000 trying to enforce and defend the patent before passing the rights to
| another company, which he described as a "patent troll". He believes that
| company will appeal this month's ruling.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/uk_patent_system_a_joke/
UK firms contest 'absurd' software patent ruling
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| The five companies, Astron Clinica Limited, Cyan Holdings Plc,
| Inrotis Technologies Limited, Software 2000 Limited and Surf
| Kitchen argue variously that the IPO is stifling British
| entrepreneurship, forcing UK firms to apply for patents
| outside the UK, and putting British inventors at a disadvantage.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/29/legal_patent_challenge/
British Government Comes Out Against 'Pure' Software Patents
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| The answer is reassuring but perhaps doesn't go far enough, and gives
| no specific promises to bring into line a patent office that grants
| software patents (according to the petition) 'against the letter
| and the spirit of the law'.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/27/152246&from=rss
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.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| 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
|
| [...]
|
| 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
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