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Jurors told too much: Microsoft
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| TO Microsoft, a $US368 million jury loss in California over its Outlook
| software provides an opportunity to argue in a federal appeals court that
| there should be greater limits on patent trial damage awards.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25570861-24169,00.html
Microsoft seeks reversal of patent-infringement conviction
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| Microsoft Corp. argued before an appeals court yesterday that its Outlook
| calendar date-picker tool did not infringe an Alcatel-Lucent patent and asked
| for a US$358-million jury verdict to be overturned.
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http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/trading-desk/technology/story.html?id=1656719
Recent:
Patent expert Alison Crofts says EPLA is pushed by pro-software patents lobby
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| In its edition of IP Value 2007, the Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) was
| publishing an article about the Reform of European Patent System, where an
| expert (Alison Crofts from Dorsey & Whitney) mentions that the push for the
| EPLA is coming from the pro-software patents lobby:
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| The industry-based driving force behind the EPLA comes from the
| pro-software patent group as a way to ensuring that their software or
| potential software patents are fully enforceable across Europe.
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http://epla.ffii.org/forum/t-161586/patent-expert-alison-crofts-says-epla-is-pushed-by-pro-software-patents-lobby
IAM exclusive - Brimelow to quit as EPO President
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| Alison Brimelow will not seek reappointment as President of the European
| Patent Office when her current term expires at the end of June 2010, it was
| announced today. Rainer Osterwalder, Director of Media Relations at the EPO,
| told IAM this afternoon: "Yes, I can confirm that Alison Brimelow has
| informed the EPO staff today that she will not seek an extension of her
| contract which ends on 30 June 2010."
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?g=c54c7e9c-28e0-42cf-9e10-389812ad3e60
Software patents plot buried under amicus avalanche
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| The EPO's latest attempt to validate their widely criticized practice of
| software patenting has been met with a much stronger response than expected.
| This broad public interest comes in reaction to the referral on the
| patentability of software to the Enlarged Board of Appeal. The referral
| procedure allows interested third parties to file statements - Amicus Curiae
| Briefs - to present their views to the members of the board. The Enlarged
| Board of Appeals asked for such statements to be submitted by end of April
| and a total of 89 such statements have been published by the Register so far.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Software_patents_plot_buried_under_amicus_avalanche
European Patent Office refuses spanish amicus brief against software patents
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| Alberto Barrionuevo, CEO of the small spanish software company OpenTIA and
| ex-president of the FFII, had submitted an amicus brief to the Enlarged Board
| of Appeal in spanish. The European Patent Office has notified him that they
| are refusing his letter because it was not written in one of the 3 official
| languages of the EPO.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-160633/european-patent-office-refuses-spanish-amicus-brief-against-software-patents
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