U.K. patent office ordered to accept software patent
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| A U.K. appeals court decision is causing confusion over longstanding European
| regulations that generally forbid granting a patent for a computer program.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9069998&intsrc=news_ts_head
High Court says UK-IPO was wrong to reject software-related patent
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| The patentability of software is a controversial area of UK intellectual
| property law. The question seemed to be settled in a decision by the Court of
| Appeal in 2006 which outlined how courts should determine whether an
| invention consists purely of software, and therefore should not be awarded a
| patent.
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| That ruling took in two cases, one involving a company called Aerotel and
| another involving inventor Neal Macrossan.
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http://www.out-law.com/page-8954
Microsoft is meanwhile using its little trolls in the UK to fight for software
patents.
Yesterday:
Jury finds for Finjan in patent suit against Secure Computing
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| A U.S. District Court of Delaware jury has found that Secure Computing, and
| its subsidiaries CyberGuard and Webwasher, infringed three patents that
| Finjan Software created over the past decade.
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| [...]
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| Finjan is partially owned by Microsoft, which purchased a non-exclusive
| worldwide license for some Finjan patents last year.
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http://www.scmagazineus.com/Jury-finds-for-Finjan-in-patent-suit-against-Secure-Computing/article/107933/
Context:
Finjan wins patent dispute against Secure Computing
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| Finjan Inc. won a patent dispute against Secure Computing Corp., with a U.S.
| District Court of Delaware jury ruling that Secure Computing should pay
| Finjan royalties for infringing on its patents. Secure Computing vows to
| appeal the decision.
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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1305285,00.html?track=sy160&asrc=RSS_RSS-10_160
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