open...

It would be something of an understatement to say that people have strong opinions about patents. But as Techdirt has reported, there...

As I've noted , there is an sudden efflorescence of writing about the ills of the patent system. Obviously, on one level, that's gr...

I thought we had got beyond this daftness : A Cellist was held at Heathrow Airport and questioned for 8 hours this week. A terrorist suspec...

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

In the long run, what drives the wealth and success of an economy is productivity and efficiency. In my opinion, many of the principles of w...

Westfield State College senior mathematics majors Jeffrey P. Vanasse and Michael E. Guenette, working under the direction of Mathematics Dep...

Although I've written elsewhere about the recent court case of Symbian v Comptroller General of Patents, noting that it was bad news, I ...

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...

Speaking as a mathematician, I have never understood why economics ignores its environmental effects, since this fundamental error in the mo...

The Owner-Free Filing system has often been described as the first brightnet; A distributed system where no one breaks the law, so no one ne...