Software Patents 101
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| The four pillars of intellectual property—patents, copyright, trademarks,
| and trade secrets—all play roles in protecting software. No wonder this is
| one of the most slippery subjects for an engineer’s lawyer.
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6005
Fluff.
Akamai Set for A Breakout
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| To recap, on Friday afternoon a jury in the U.S. District Court of
| Massachusetts ruled that Limelight infringed on an Akamai patent that covers
| certain technologies related to content delivery via the Internet. The jury
| awarded Akamai $45.5 million in damages, and we fully expect Limelight to
| appeal the verdict as it believes it did not infringe on Akamai's patent.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/investing/10406000.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
Microsoft Should Be Clear of Infringing Akamai's 703 Patent
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| Live streaming, software downloads, application acceleration, delivery to a
| device etc... are not infringing as they are either not cached or not
| delivered to a browser. So not everything on Limelight's network is in
| violation of the 703 patent. I don't know what percentage of Limelight's
| traffic or revenue is outside of the 703 patent but that would be interesting
| to know.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/67097-microsoft-should-be-clear-of-infringing-akamai-s-703-patent?source=yahoo
Related:
Trend Micro patent claim provokes FOSS community, leads to boycott
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| Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center is aware of the case, and is
| considering a patent re-examination request or another intervention in the
| case.
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| Contacted by Linux.com, Barracuda's Drako acknowledged the array of reactions
| by saying, "We at Barracuda want to extend our thanks to the tremendous
| number of individuals who expressed support for our defending the use of
| ClamAV free and open source software, as well as to the community members
| that have submitted prior art."
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| If Trend Micro hasn't already, it is about to find out that the case is about
| free software after all.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/126851
Call for action: Boycott Trend Micro
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| Anti virus developer Trend Micro accused Barracuda Networks of patent
| infringement but what they really did was attacking the users of ClamAV free
| anti virus software with a bogus patent.
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http://wiki.vrijschrift.org/Call_for_action%3A_Boycott_Trend_Micro
When Patents Threaten Science
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| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
| nature, or mathematical formulas.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395
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