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Contents
- 1 By month added
- 1.1 July 2014
- 1.2 June 2014
- 1.3 October 2013
- 1.4 September 2013
- 1.5 August 2013
- 1.6 July 2013
- 1.7 May 2013
- 1.8 February 2013
- 1.9 October 2012
- 1.10 September 2012
- 1.11 July 2012
- 1.12 June 2012
- 1.13 May 2012
- 1.14 April 2012
- 1.15 March 2012
- 1.16 February 2012
- 1.17 September 2011
- 1.18 February 2011
- 1.19 November 2010
- 1.20 October 2010
- 1.21 August 2010
- 1.22 June 2010
- 1.23 May 2010
- 1.24 March 2010
- 1.25 February 2010
- 1.26 January 2010
- 1.27 November 2009
- 1.28 October 2009
- 1.29 September 2009
- 1.30 August 2009
- 1.31 June 2009
- 1.32 May 2009
- 1.33 April 2009
- 1.34 March 2009
- 1.35 February 2009
- 2 Big sources of sources
- 3 Patently-o links to be processed, temporary section
By month added
July 2014
- - Patent Troll HOWTO Guide Blog - Frightening yet comical parody of Patent Trolls as portrayed by a real life software developer who was shut down from patent trolls or the threat of patent lawsuits. Activist Site.
- - Patent Troll HOWTO Guide on YouTube - Frightening yet comical parody of Patent Trolls as portrayed by a real life software developer who was shut down from patent trolls or the threat of patent lawsuits. Activist Site.
- Forget the mobile patent wars – these web giants have patented your DATA CENTER (Richard Stallman commented this as "The software patent war has extended to data centres.")
June 2014
- Video explaining the "Inter Partes Review" procedure at the USPTO - is it worth making a page for this procedure? The procedure doesn't seem very useful, but documenting that fact could be useful.
October 2013
- Nobel-winning economist: end software patents and cut patent protection to 10 years, 23 July 2013, Jeff John Roberts
- On Reforming the Patent System, 21 July 2013, Gary Becker (becker & posner blog)
September 2013
- Report: After patent loss, Apple tweaks FaceTime—and logs 500,000 complaints, 30 Aug 2013, Ars Technica
August 2013
- USPTO: Software Composition Inventions are Unpatentable under §101 unless they Clearly Disavow that the Storage Mechanism is a Transitory Wave or Signal, 27 Aug 2013, Patently-O
July 2013
- Personal Audio's patent which they claim covers podcasting
- Software Unpatentabillity Alliance This seems to redirect to a Google Docs page which requires proprietary JavaScript. Ssdclickofdeath (talk) 21:21, 16 February 2014 (EST)
- Event: Software Patent Quagmire?
May 2013
February 2013
October 2012
- Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents", Timothy B. Lee
- The Patent, Used as a Sword - nytimes on patents used to kill SMEs
September 2012
- http://eupat.ffii.org/analyse/epc52/exeg/ Lenz: Interpretation of Article 52 of the European Patent Convention in view of the question, to what extent software is patentable
July 2012
- Ongoing Debate: Is Software Patentable?, Patently-O - about two recent CAFC rulings
June 2012
- The Silencing of Maya - about a non-verbal child that uses software to talk, but may lose it now because a patent holder is attacking the software company. The main problem is actually in the power that Apple has over iProducts, but it seems the patent holder doesn't have a product that suits Maya's needs (otherwise the parents would mention that option), which highlights that software patents harm computer users' need for variety of implementations, to cover all needs. FFF
- Curing the Problem of Software Patents, Prof. Michael Risch (who was cited in Mayo ruling by US Supreme Court on 20 March 2012)
- Collective Shields against Software Patents?, FFII
- Polluter pays, FFII
May 2012
- Where are the jobs? Ask the patent trolls., (before 8 May 2012), Washington Post
- The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up
- Good: explains that the lawsuits between the megacorps aren't the problem, the real problem is for SMEs and software users
- Bad: proposes a solution that probably wouldn't work, and would also raise the cost-risk of counter-suits (which can be precisely a reasonable defence against megacorps)
- Top judge: ditching software patents a "bad solution", 13 May 2012, Ars Technica
April 2012
- Patent Office Exploring Keeping Patents Secret If They're 'Economically Significant', 27 Apr 2012, Techdirt
- Twitter: Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement, 17 Apr 2012, Twitter Engineering Blog
March 2012
- Patents for Software, Algorithms and Business Methods, 31 Oct 2003, Robert Anderson, Edinburgh University
February 2012
- Open source – ditching patents and copyright for the greater good, article
- Debian Position on Software Patents
- VA Shiva Ayyadurai (with disputed claim to inventing email) says patents hamper innovation
- Software Utility Models and SMEs, by Philip Leith
- This is about software patents (not really about utility models), in the context of 2000 when the European Commission was working on what would become the EU Software Patents Directive
September 2011
- Ways out of Darkness – Abolishing Patents - writings of a libertarian in the USA
February 2011
- http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ - the links on the right might have some gems
November 2010
- The IT Law Wiki, 10,400 articles - might have something interesting for us
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - I wonder if they are already anti-swpat, or if they'd be interested in helping
October 2010
- Microsoft Asks the U.S. Supreme Court to Make it Easier to Invalidate Patents, by EFF's legal counsel
August 2010
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jrincayc/Patent_utils - python scripts for listing who owns which MPEG patents
- The PFIF Agreement, essay by Andrew Tridgell
- CSS selectors - nothing to do with patents, but useful CSS info for Template:navbox :-)
June 2010
- (in French) links in French
May 2010
March 2010
- Why I Am Against Software Patents, by Stephen O'Grady - good links in that article, and he has some other good articles on that site
February 2010
- http://apps.shareholder.com/sec/viewerContent.aspx?companyid=DIVX&docid=6470121 - this page is very slow to load; bizarre html. Found in an LWN comment about DivX and software patents.
- French original: brevets-logiciels.info - info and wiki (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- OpenSim developers warn against patents
- http://fare.tunes.org/articles/patents.html#postscriptum - the essay doesn't contain much of interest (the claims don't have references) but the bibliography might have interesting links
- http://www.ipwatchdog.com/tag/software-patents/ - worth skimming for good ones
- http://unames.com/gen-eric/arc.htm - contains lists of links, some good
- French original: French wiki with a great page about software patents (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- http://www.ipjur.com/2007/05/patentability-of-ciis-new-developments.php3
- http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-9112/german-judge-melullis-speaks-on-software-patents
- http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/HackPatents
January 2010
- http://www.libervis.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software_Patents - overview with links
- http://www.zdnet.co.uk/tsearch/patents.htm - old news stories
- http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp - patent offices of all countries
November 2009
- http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/software-patents-a-personal-story/
- http://en.sap.info/“you-have-to-make-sure-your-ip-assets-don’t-walk-out-the-door”/10757
October 2009
- http://mertan.osuosl.org/ - which replaces publictimestamp, and possibly also replaces "Open Source as Prior Art Wiki" which might have been at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (hopefully only temporarily, the correct domain was http://publictimestamp.org)
September 2009
- http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-siemens-and-phillips-sw-patent/
- http://www.nosoftwarepatents-award.com/press/200604.en.html
- http://www.ferret.com.au/c/Philips-Electronics-Australia/European-CEOs-back-software-patents-n699053
- http://www.nosoftwarepatents-award.com/vote200610/index.en.html
- http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2009-0901-200115/UUindex.html
- http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090911130806414 - about MS, trolls, i4i
- http://bat8.inria.fr/~lang/reperes/patents/
- http://eprints.law.duke.edu/896/1/94_Colum._L._Rev._2308_(1994).pdf - Someone claimed this argues against software patents and enjoyed broad support within the legal community in the 90s. To be confirmed...
- http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/09/lord-hoffmann-in-agreement-with-tufty.html About the EPO EBA g3/8 and about Aerotel
August 2009
- http://lasporg.blogspot.com/ - A software patent blog for lawyers
- http://ez.no/developer/articles/ez_systems_opposes_software_patents
- http://ez.no/developer/articles/ez_systems_opposes_software_patents/patents_distort_competition
- http://www.innovation.lv/ris/latv/Bibl/studies_enforcing_firms_patent_rights.pdf
- http://www.researchoninnovation.org/online.htm
- http://eupat.ffii.org/pikta/xrani/index.en.html
- http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%29%28%20.P1%2F%25%0A (this has now turned subscription-only - anyone got a link to another copy?)
June 2009
- Jan Bergstra and Paul Klint: Software Patents
- Heckel, holder of HyperCard patent, defends software patents
- Security in Information Technology and Patent Protection for Software Products: A Contradiction?, probably pro-swpat but may be interesting
- http://www.chillingeffects.org/patent/
- http://www.tutorial-reports.com/innovation/patent/software.php
- http://wiki.vrijschrift.nl/LinksSwpatEn
- http://eupat.ffii.org/archiv/zitate/index.en.html
- http://ssrn.com/ - search for related papers
May 2009
- http://www.chillingeffects.org/ecom/
- Gowers Review of Intellectual Property - the pdf document discussed on this page has a lot of references, may be worth scouring
- There's a few articles with links on the website of the author of "The Genie in the Machine"
- Professor Harold Wegner on European Patent Blogs
April 2009
- On the SSRN page for the paper Software Patents in Germany, there're many other interesting papers in a box on the right titled "People who downloaded this paper also downloaded"
- Software patents in Europe: the technical requirement dilemma
March 2009
- Erik Josefsson's new project: The Patent Bay
- Markets Are Better Than Patents in Promoting Intellectual Discovery, Says Caltech-led Team of Economists (Note: this is about patents in general, not specifically software patents) related article, including criticism
- Transparent Patents essay by Carl Malamud
- A BSDer's page of ideas and some links
February 2009
- http://www.post-issue.org/user-interface-with-multiple-workspaces-for-sharing-display-system-objects-3
- http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/canrev/cr55/IEEECanadianReview_no55.pdf
- Patent nonsense, by John Walker May 10th, 1993
- Patently Absurd, article in Forbes, Gary L. Reback, June 24 2002
- Article by Lawrence Lessig, 1999
Big sources of sources
- League for Programming Freedom
- FFII.org - but also its old subdomains. Probably the best way to search the FFII sites collectively is using an Internet search engine
- List of 37 patent blogs
- http://researchoninnovation.org/ and their 2006 conference vids and slides
- French original: www.abul.org/brevets/articles/tsuba_refs.php3 (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
Patently-o links to be processed, temporary section
RIM
- Note: RIM changed its name to BlackBerry in 2013.
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2004/12/blackberry_make.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2005/10/cafc_denies_rim.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2005/12/rim_appeals_to_.html
Unknown
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2004/11/dell_sued_infri.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/07/appeals_court_o.html
KSR teleflex
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/08/ksr_v_teleflex_.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/10/ksr_v_teleflex_.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/11/ksr_shifts_obvi.html
USA general
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2007/10/cafc-continues-.html In USA, States are immune??
