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Software and business method patents take a hit
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| Certainly we are not at the end of this, but for the first time in a long
| time advocates of software patents have been put on the defensive. This is
| really big.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3052
State Street Overruled... PERIOD
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| The Federal Circuit has overruled State Street and software patents are no
| longer available as they have come to be available over the last 10 to 15
| years.
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http://www.pli.edu/patentcenter/blog.asp?view=plink&id=369
US court throws out most software patents - Microsoft has a problem
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| Much of the patent portfolio of some of the world's biggest software
| companies has become worthless overnight, thanks to a ruling yesterday by the
| US patent court.
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http://www.itexaminer.com/us-court-throws-out-most-software-patents.aspx
The Scariest Things in Open Source
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| Another scary thing for those in Open Source would be patents. Honestly,
| thanks to the legal work done by so many in the FOSS world (big props to you
| guys), patents have more or less become a huge paper tiger. They still scare
| a lot of people, but in the end, all the saber rattling by the big boys
| (Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Intel, etc, etc) have more or less rendered
| patents as nothing more than dead trees splattered with ink.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=483
Federal Circuit Reins in Business Method Patents
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| During the 1990s, it handed down its Alappat and State Street decisions,
| which gave a green light to patents on software and business methods, two
| categories of innovation that had traditionally been regarded as ineligible
| for patent protection. Even as the evidence mounted earlier this decade that
| these patents were hindering, rather than promoting, technological
| innovation, the Federal Circuit showed no sign of backing down.
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/tblee/federal-circuit-reins-business-method-patents
Recent:
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| Staff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization
| of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to
| make more money.
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| One of the ways that the EPO has done this is by issuing software patents in
| defiance of the treaty that set it up.
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http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#24%20September%202008%20%28Patent%20Office%20on%20Strike%29
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