- NOTE: this is not currently getting updated (2010-06-15)
This is a list of links to third-party news about software patents in 2010.
For a link that always points to the latest page of news, use: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/News_links
(For ESP's own news, go to news.swpat.org)
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| Date
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Article
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Website
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Related pages
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| 2010-03-02 |
Google Secures Broad Patent for Location-Based Advertising |
mashable.com |
Google, Silly patents
|
| 2010-03-02 |
EU, USA, Japan pushing for patents in ACTA! |
news.swpat.org |
ACTA-6437-10.pdf as text
|
| 2010-03-01 |
Major ACTA Leak: Internet and Civil Enforcement Chapters With Country Positions |
michaelgeist.ca |
ACTA
|
| 2010-02-24 |
Xerox sues Google, Yahoo over search patents |
Yahoo News |
Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al (2010, USA)
|
| 2010-02-23 |
Microsoft, Amazon strike patent deal covering Kindle and Linux |
TechFlash |
Amazon, Microsoft
|
| 2010-02-21 |
USPTO's 1-Click Indecisiveness Enters 5th Year |
Slashdot |
Amazon's one-click shopping patent
|
| 2010-02-17 |
Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’ |
NYT |
Intellectual Ventures, Patent trolls
|
| 2010-02-16 |
Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking |
Slashdot |
silly patents, Google
|
| 2010-02-12 |
Emblaze Brings Patent Infringement Suit against Microsoft, Apple |
TMCnet |
Microsoft, Apple
|
| 2010-02-11 |
Emblaze: Microsoft and Apple stole our technology |
Inquirer |
Microsoft, Apple
|
| 2010-02-05 |
Patent nonsense, An end to frivolous patents may finally be in sight |
Economist |
|
| 2010-02-04 |
Gates, Ozzie, Microsoft execs patent 'personal data mining' |
TechFlash |
Microsoft
|
| 2010-02-02 |
Black Duck Software Awarded Patent ... Resolves Software License Obligations and Conflicts |
EarthTimes |
Black Duck's licence patent
|
| 2010-02-01 |
Report Shows Patent Trolls Are Thriving |
Slashdot |
2009 patent litigation study
|
| 2010-01-31 |
US Dir. of Citizen Participation Patents the News |
Slashdot |
Obama administration
|
| 2010-01-24 |
Video, Freedom And Mozilla |
Mozilla |
audio-video patents
|
| 2010-01-24 |
HTML5 video and codecs |
Mozilla |
H.264
|
| 2010-01-20 |
Google's MapReduce patent: what does it mean for Hadoop? |
arstechnica |
silly patents, Google
|
| 2010-01-20 |
Microsoft Sues TiVo - The Why of It |
Groklaw |
Microsoft, TiVo
|
| 2010-01-19 |
USPTO Grants Google a Patent On MapReduce |
Slashdot |
silly patents, Google
|
| 2010-01-13 |
Half of US Patents Issued Out of US For Second Year |
Slashdot |
Who owns software patents?
|
| 2010-01-10 |
Microsoft Patents DRM'd Torrents |
Slashdot |
Microsoft
|
| 2010-01-10 |
Australia: time for action |
news.swpat.org |
Australia
|
| 2010-01-09 |
Google Seeking Patent On Ads For Street View |
Slashdot |
|
| 2010-01-08 |
ESP launching public mailing lists |
news.swpat.org |
End Software Patents
|
| 2010-01-08 |
Israel: one month to end software patents |
news.swpat.org |
Israel
|
| 2010-01-06 |
Summarising the problem |
news.swpat.org |
|
| 2010-01-05 |
HP Patents Bignum Implementation From 1912 |
Slashdot |
Silly patents, HP
|
| 2010-01-04 |
Analogy: roadblocks and toll booths |
news.swpat.org |
Analogies
|
| 2010-01-02 |
Why Apple Denied the Google Latitude App |
Slashdot |
Apple, Google
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