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As regular readers of this column will know, software patents have never really gone away, even though the European Patent Convention fo...

Regular readers of this column will know that I am not overly enamoured of the European Patent Office, since it has effectively introduc...

The European Patent Office (EPO) is a curious body. Despite its name, it is not the patent office for the European Union (EU) in the sa...

This is getting silly. Over the last year I've been warning about problems with the EU' s plan to bring in a Unitary Patent syste...

As I've noted a couple of times , one of the key issues that has yet to be resolved concerning the proposed EU Unitary Patent syste...

As I wrote yesterday, one of the most pressing problems the open source community faces in the near future is the Unitary Patent proposal...

The idea of bringing in a unitary EU patent system has been rolling around Brussels so long most people have assumed it will never happen....

The European Patent Organization (EPO) is a strange entity. Despite its name, it has nothing to do with the European Union. Instead, it ...

The ACTA saga has been grinding on for years now, distinguished by a wilful lack of transparency that is a clear sign that you and I are ...

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...

There's some interesting turbulence in the blogosphere about the following call from Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) o...

One of the fears that I and others have voiced is that the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) - an attempt to set up a unified Euro...

One of my computer heroes, Donald Knuth, has sent a message to the head of the EPO, hoping to convince her that every algorithm is sacred, ...

I make no apologies for returning to the subject of the European Patent Office's referral of a “point of law” concerning software patent...

Yesterday I was praising Red Hat's submission to the EPO in its pondering of the patentability of software. Today, it's the FSFE&#...

Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process.... On Open Enterprise blog .

Yesterday I was writing about the latest moves in the TomTom saga, and its involvement with the Open Invention Network patent commons. But b...

I've written a lot about the danger that software patents pose to open source. The problem is that intellectual monopolies like patents ...

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

Wow, there are some clever bunnies up at the EPO these days. Try this for size: Relying on a well-known and widely used definition, a comp...