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A theme that has re-appeared on this blog many times over the years is that of software patents. As I've noted before, they are perhap...

You may recall back in 2011, there was an extraordinary bidding war for the patents of Nortel Networks: On Open Enterprise blog.

Software patents have figured quite frequently on this blog, usually in terms of their deep problems, especially for free software. Alth...

Few patent sagas have been as fraught as New Zealand's attempt to revise its laws to exclude software. Techdirt first wrote about t...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the growing threat of software patents in Europe (again). I was delighted to come across thi...

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

Seeds have much in common with code.  Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software.  In particular, t...

Although the European Union finally approved the continent-wide Unitary Patent in December 2012, after decades of discussions, the story...

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

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

Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...

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...

Today, the European Parliament votes on the Unitary Patent. As I explained yesterday, what is being presented is something of a botch, ...

I've been writing about the attempt to craft a Unitary Patent in Europe for some years. The idea in itself is not bad: a patent that...

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...

Back in July, I warned about the imminent threat of software patents sneaking into Europe thanks to horse-trading over the proposed EU U...

The reaction to the jury's decision in the US patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung has been rather remarkable. I've...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the danger that the Unitary Patent would usher in software patents to Europe. The proposal was supp...

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

Something seems to be going on in the European Union. Over the next few weeks a range of really important debates and votes are taking p...