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It will not have escaped your notice that the patent system has been the subject of several posts on this blog, or that the general tenor is...

One of the many problems with the patent offices around the world is that they are often unaware of prior art, granting patents for so-calle...

Groklaw's Pamela Jones is a true eminence grise of the area in the intellectual Venn diagram where computer technology and law intersect...

This is rich : In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion -- the concept of savi...

Squirreling away prior art in an attempt to stave off software patents sounds like a jolly sensible idea. But that old curmudgeon, Richard ...

One of the favourite games of scholars working on ancient texts that have come down to us from multiple sources is to create a family tree o...