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2010
- See also: news 2010
- August 12th: Oracle sues Google for infringing Java patents
- May 12th: European Patent Office concludes swpat review, takes no decision: EPO EBoA referral G3-08
- April 30th: Red Hat and Novell win against Acacia in court: Acacia v. Red Hat and Novell (2010, USA)
- March 2nd: Apple v. HTC (2010, USA)
- March 1st: Major ACTA document leaked: ACTA-6437-10.pdf as text
- February 22nd: Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al (2010, USA)
2009
- See also: news 2009
- October: Nokia v. Apple (2010, USA)
- September: Open Invention Network buys 22 Microsoft patents (related: Buying harmful patents)
- August 11th, USA: Microsoft loses the i4i v. Microsoft case appeal, having to pay $290 million
- July 2nd, New Zealand: deadline for comments regarding dangerous proposed Patents Bill
- March: European Patent Office calls for comment on swpats: Briefs submitted to EPO EBoA G3-08
- Eolas v. many defendants (2009, USA)
- Fotomedia Technologies v. many defendants (USA, 2009)
- Software Tree v. Red Hat (2009, USA)
- U.S. Ethernet Innovations v. many defendants (2009, USA)
- Uniloc v. Microsoft (2009, USA)
2008
- See also: news 2008
- October: in re Bilski ruling in the USA narrow the scope for patenting software and business methods
- Symbian v. Comptroller General (2008, UK) - bad
- Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft (2008, USA)
- Microsoft v. TomTom (2008, USA)
- NetApp v. Sun (2008, USA)
- Trend Micro v. Barracuda (2008, USA)
- Quanta v. LGE (2008, USA)
2007
- See also: news 2007
- October 7th: Acacia files suit against Red Hat and Novell: Acacia v. Red Hat and Novell (2010, USA)
- Fujitsu et. al. v. Netgear (2007, USA)
2006
- See also: news 2006
- October: Aerotel v. Telco, United Kingdom ruling
- August: UK patent office rejects a patent because it's a software idea
- Microsoft vs AT&T, 2006 (in the USA)
- Novell-Microsoft patent deals
- Visto v. Seven (2006, USA)
- Z4 v. Microsoft and Autodesk (2006, USA)
2005
- See also: news 2005
- July: European Parliament rejects the EU software patents directive
- Justsystem v. Matsushita (2005, Japan) - a software patent upheld, then overturned
2004
- See also: news 2004
- September: Rethinking the European ICT agenda, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- April 14th: Software Patent Legislation Benchmarking Conference
- Burst v. Microsoft (2004, USA)
- Eolas v. Microsoft (2004, USA)
2003
- See also: news 2003
October 28th: US FTC report on innovation, US Federal Trade Commission
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
- Stac v. Microsoft - MS guilty of wilful infringement of a software patent
1992
1991
- December 13th: A software patent upheld by a court in Australia
1990
1980s
- 1989: Founding of the League for Programming Freedom.
- 1981: Diamond v. Diehr (1981, USA)
