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When will Microsoft admit the truth about software patents?
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| Copyright is the best protection for software. It lasts longer, you donât
| have to make a big filing on it, you donât have to open the kimono to win in
| court.
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| Just file a case to overturn State Street, or limit your lobbying to a call
| for an end to software patents.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4653
Patents and Headaches
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| I am all about honoring copyrights. I am all about respecting intellectual
| property. Software is a form of art imho, and should be respected. If you
| don't want others modifying your work, changing your work, and redistributing
| your work that's fine. Anyway you make it available to others is strictly
| your business. I only have problem when you try to patent a particular brush
| stroke. It's simply wrong.
|
| "Sorry Da Vinci, oil paints were patented. Oh, and Van Gogh, using paints to
| create a life-like texture was done already, you can't do that man. Your
| Starry Night has to go in the fire."
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http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2009/08/patents-and-headaches.html
Texas Judge Bans Microsoft From Selling Word in the U.S.
http://www.dailytech.com/Texas+Judge+Bans+Microsoft+From+Selling+Word+in+the+US/article15945.htm
Recent:
Softpatent trolls OOXML and Word
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| We may add that while Microsoft always pays lip service to patent reform and
| patent quality, it effectively obstructed even moderate steps of pragmatic
| reform in the field of software patenting with massive lobbying investment
| and an ideological agenda. An ideological motivation you don't find among all
| the other players which have a real business. The massive lobbying also
| applies to colonial attitudes towards patent regimes of third nations in
| which the American company operates, or the European Union, our main area of
| operations as the FFII e.V. Ironically Microsoft itself is a favourite target
| of troll challenges and no one knows how much profits Marshall Phelps
| actually generates by selling their Microsoft FAT patents. In the spectacular
| case of TomTom we were told it was a very small amount. Some American critics
| as Brian Kahin speak of a patent bubble of low value patents but how is it
| going to burst? When you have a licensing business a good patent is one that
| hurts. Maybe the Encyclopedia Brittannica is an example, it failed
| commercially and now became an (unsuccesful) patent enforcement agency
| against actual market players.
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| In the recent referral G03/08 about software patentability an European Patent
| Office case named T 424/03 (Microsoft) was center to the debate. Find the
| Amicus letters here. Currently you also have a pending referral on Bilski in
| the US Supreme Court which is more far reaching than software. In the US many
| examination tests were dismantled such as the machine or transformation box
| test which opened the flood gates and unbalanced the system. It was
| reintroduced under the Bilski ruling but appealed at the supreme court. The
| Bilski test does not rule out software or business method patents but
| provides means to reduce the pressure within the examination system in later
| stages.
|
| First you wreck the law, then the trolls wreck you.
|
| [...]
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| Right now ISO/IEC 29500 ("OOXML") is patent encumbered and cannot be called
| an "open standard" according to conventional definitions and looks unusable
| for the public sector.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-175409/softpatent-trolls-ooxml-and-word
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