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[News] More Filings About BM and SW Patents Include Anti-FOSS Company Microsoft

  • Subject: [News] More Filings About BM and SW Patents Include Anti-FOSS Company Microsoft
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:13:31 +0100
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Final Bilski Briefs Filed - Microsoft, Google, FFII, ABA, etc.

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| More intriguing Bilski briefs filed. The door 
| is shut now, so there will be no more, I 
| gather. Both the ABA and Patently O have them 
| all listed, and the latter includes a helpful 
| brief blurb giving an outline of the theme of 
| each. So read them all if you wish.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091006211624143


Recent:

FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate software patents

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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today submitted an amicus
| curiae brief calling on the Supreme Court to affirm that software
| ideas are not patentable. After outlining the positive impact that
| the free software movement and the GNU General Public License (GNU
| GPL) have had on computer use, the brief explains how software
| patents are an obstacle and a danger to software developers.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/bilski-supreme-court-brief


SFLC files Bilski brief: Software should not be patentable and don't forget the 1st Amendment

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| The Software Freedom Law Center has now filed its brief in Bilski.
| You can read it online here, as well as download it as a PDF or as
| Postscript. It raises three major points: 1) software is just
| algorithms for computers in human readable terms, and algorithms
| are not patentable; 2) excluding software from patentable subject
| matter encourages innovation in software; and 3) the First
| Amendment prohibits permitting the patenting of abstract ideas. I
| think you'll find that last point the most interesting.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091002213301495
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