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20 May 2012
Poland Betrays Its Past, Moves Closer To Allowing Software Patents
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Earlier this year, Poland played a crucial role in igniting street protests that pretty much stopped ACTA in its tracks. That's not th...
12 May 2012
Why Patent Injunctions Are Even Worse For Open Source
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The damage that software patents cause to innovation in the computer world is a constant theme here on Techdirt. But as a fascinating n...
27 April 2012
The Serious Business of Open Source, Inc.
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One of open source's great strengths is that it is not a company. This means that traditional methods of nullifying its threat – such ...
18 April 2012
Is TPP To Blame For The Continuing Delay In Passing New Zealand's 2008 Bill That Excludes Software Patents?
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As Techdirt reported a couple of years ago, a hard-fought campaign in New Zealand to prevent software patents being granted there seemed...
What One Line of Code can Teach Us
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Light Blue Touchpaper is a blog written by researchers in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (don't...
US Judge Forbids Motorola From Using German Injunction Against Microsoft
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Here's an interesting development in the legal battle between Microsoft and Motorola in Germany that we discussed recently. It seems ...
19 December 2011
EU Council Quietly Adopts ACTA, By Hiding It In An Agriculture And Fisheries Meeting
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At the end of last week, the Council of the European Union – which is where national ministers from each EU country meet to adopt laws an...
06 December 2011
Flood of EU Software Patents on the Way?
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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....
29 November 2011
Ubuntu's Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life: 'Whole Patent System Is A Sham'
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Mark Shuttleworth is probably best known for three things. Selling the certificate authority Thawte Consulting to VeriSign for about $5...
Getting Lost in the Patent Thicket Thicket
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One of the many hopeful signs that the Hargreaves team knew what they were talking about was the recognition that patent thickets were an ...
28 November 2011
Coming To Plates In Europe: Patented Vegetables, Produced By Conventional Breeding
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The European Patent Organization (EPO) is a strange entity. Despite its name, it has nothing to do with the European Union. Instead, it ...
Patent Scandal of Laws Made Behind Closed Doors
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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 ...
14 November 2011
Why Barnes & Noble is an Open Source Superstar
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As I've noted many times, one of the biggest threats hanging over open source is patents, because of the way trivial but indispensable...
12 October 2011
Microsoft's Subtle Knife Through the Heart of EU Software Industry
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One of the striking changes at Microsoft over the last twenty years is how savvy it has become in terms of lobbying and influencing polit...
03 October 2011
Microsoft-Samsung Licensing Deal Tells Us Nothing About The Facts, Just About The FUD
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As Bessen and Meurer's book "Patent Failure" points out, one of the biggest problems with software patents is their lack o...
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27 September 2011
Why It's Time to Party Like It's 2011
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The Pirate Party has hovered on the edge of politics for a while now, acting as a kind of gadfly to traditional parties - annoying but not...
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21 September 2011
The True Cost of the Patent Trolls: Half a Trillion Dollars
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I've written a number of pieces about the inherent flaws of patents, especially in the field of software. Those are mostly to do with...
14 August 2011
Patents: Just Do the Maths
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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...
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07 August 2011
Patent Absurdity Becomes Absurdly Patent
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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...
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03 August 2011
Reviewing the UK Government Response to the Hargreaves Review
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I've written a number of columns about the Hargreaves Review, and its generally sensible ideas. But, ultimately, those proposals mean no...
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