Can We Legislate Past the H.264 Debate?
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/05/09/1439242/Can-We-Legislate-Past-the-H264-Debate
USPTO Ramping Up Patent Approvals
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| However, is all that being reversed?
| Patently-O recently pointed out that the
| USPTO appears to be approving patents at a
| much higher rate again, and there's lots of
| speculation as to why. Many assume that, as
| was noted in the original link above,
| Kappos and his boss, Commerce Secretary
| Gary Locke, are focused on reducing
| backlog. And so the incentives and pressure
| within the USPTO is to just approve patents
| to get them out of the way. If true, this
| is incredibly short-sighted and will
| backfire. The end result is that more bad
| patents get approved, and when bad patents
| get approved it increases bad lawsuits,
| followed by bad rulings for huge sums of
| money... leading more people to file for
| more bad patents hoping to win the same
| kind of jackpot.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100510/0339489356.shtml
Because Nokia And Apple Aren't In Enough Patent Lawsuits...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100510/0121079352.shtml
Effort Underway For Defensive Patent Pool For Open Source Developers
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100507/1649209343.shtml
Collective Shields against Software Patents?
http://eupat.ffii.org/stidi/gacri/index.en.html
Linux differences aside, a big legal victory
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| Thereâs been a stepping up of competition
| among the Linux vendors, particularly
| Novell and Red Hat, which both continue to
| advance their Linux distributions in the
| latest versions Suse Linux Enterprise
| Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Much
| of the increased competition centers on
| pushing Linux even further into cloud
| computing, where it is already winning use
| with ideal licensing, scalability and
| clustering capabilities. With the focus on
| cloud computing, the âotherâ Linux vendor,
| Ubuntu distributor Canonical, also becomes
| more significant.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/05/10/do-not-sell-anything-to-your-community/
Standing up to a patent bully
http://opensource.com/law/10/5/standing-up-patent-bully
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