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John Paul Stevens, Defender of High-Tech Freedom
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| Patents: The explosion of software patents
| is one of the biggest threats to innovation
| in the software industry, and Justice
| Stevens saw this threat coming almost three
| decades ago. Stevens wrote the majority
| decision in the 1978 case of Parker v.
| Flook, which clearly disallowed patents in
| the software industry. Three years later,
| Stevens dissented in the 1981 case of
| Diamond v. Diehr, which allowed a patent on
| a software-controlled rubber-curing
| machine. Although the majority decision
| didnât explicitly permit patents on
| software, Stevens warned that the
| majorityâs muddled decision would
| effectively open the door to software
| patents. And he has been proven right. In
| the three decades that followed, the
| patent-friendly U.S. Court of Appeals for
| the Federal Circuit has effectively
| dismantled limits on software patents. And
| the result has been a disaster, with high-
| tech firms being forced to spend large sums
| on litigation rather than innovation.
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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/04/09/john-paul-stevens-defender-of-high-tech-freedom/
Pfizer, Novartis & Eli Lilly Received A Bunch Of Illegal Pharma Patents In India
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| However, Jamie Love points us to the news
| of a new report that found that the Indian
| patent office has gone against this law and
| issued such patents quite frequently and,
| no surprise, the main recipients are among
| the world's largest pharma companies,
| including Pfizer, Novartis and Eli Lilly.
| Is it any wonder that they've all been
| pushing to dump sections 3(d) and (e) all
| along? Remember, pharma patents are not
| about drug discovery, but about jacking up
| the prices on drugs.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100407/1902268925.shtml
Algebraix: A new approach to querying huge databases
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| I met with Charles Silver, the CEO of
| Algebraix Data, a startup based in San
| Diego. He was telling me about his
| companyâs approach to querying large
| databases, very quickly, and with no need
| for prior indexing, or construction of data
| models.
|
| It all sounded too good to be true, I told
| him.
|
| If Algebraix can do what it says it can, it
| is a very hot startup.
|
| Here are some notes from our conversation:
|
| [...]
|
| - We have four patents on the technology.
| Getting software patents is not as easy as
| it once used to be.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=1303
Harrison Endorses Software Exclusion from Patent Reforms, Opposes NZOSSâs Move
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| New Zealand Open Source Society is seeking
| powerful interests for pressurizing the
| government to turn around its plans of
| excluding software from patent protection
| reforms in the country.
|
| Posting his views on NZOSS website,
| yesterday, Vice President Peter Harrison
| appreciated the Commerce Select Committee's
| advice of exclusion of software from patent
| protection, thereby countering the views of
| the critics.
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http://topnews.us/content/216098-harrison-endorses-software-exclusion-patent-reforms-opposes-nzoss-s-move
Ballnux (Microsoft tax):
HTC and LG prep new Snapdragon-based Android phones
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/HTC-Incredible-and-LG-Aloha-C710-and-LG-Eclipse-LU2300/?kc=rss
Recent:
What's Bilski got to do with open source?
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| Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier speaks with Aaron
| Williamson, counsel at the Software Freedom
| Law Center (SFLC).
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http://www.networkworld.com/podcasts/openmic/2010/031710openmic-williamson.html
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