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Something wonderful has happened over the last few weeks: more people have woken up to the threat that patents represent to innovation. I...

One of the pernicious effects of the highly-successful campaign to re-brand intellectual monopolies as "intellectual property" is ...

I like Amazon's services. Indeed, judging by the amount I spend with the company, I'm probably a suitable case for treatment for Am...

You can't make this stuff up: The present invention relates to a sandwich assembly tool and methods of making a sandwich, which may be ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) is warning of "Global Patent Warming" in light of the growing number of patent applications it is...

I thought the image in this post was only vaguely amusing, and so didn't bother pointing it out. But now that AT&T wants to add bu...

As readers of this blog may have gathered, I am not the biggest fan of Nathan Myhrvold. I am, however, a big fan of Mike Masnick, especiall...

Who doesn't want intellectual prosperity ? The term “intellectual property” is a new-speak propaganda word. First, the topic it covers v...

How, er, sick is this? Of all the exclusions from patentability, most poignant is the bar on patenting methods of surgery, therapy or diagno...

One of the most remarkable - and heartening - changes in recent years has been in the attitude to software patents. Until a few years back,...

The intellectual monopolies lord giveth , and the intellectual monopolies lord taketh away : Blackboard has prevailed in an e-learning paten...

Another judge gets it : A federal judge recently got so infuriated by the conduct of two highly regarded trial attorneys that he overturned ...

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I've not been following the details of the US Patent Reform Act, but this sounds worrying : The Electronic Frontier Foundation supports ...

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I've warned you about this bloke before : Intellectual Ventures LLC, a low-profile investment firm run by former Microsoft Corp. executi...

Europe does not allow software patents, but that doesn't stop some people - patent lawyers, mostly - from circumventing that clear and s...

Here's an amazing victory : In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following th...

The Free Culture group are people after my own heart, so much so that their entire manifesto deserves quoting: The mission of the Free Cul...

Not something you see everyday - yet: IBM has put into the public domain and withdrawn its application for patent number US2007/0162321 - O...