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Contents
- 1 The Unsorted
- 2 Countries and regions
- 3 Studies
- 4 People
- 5 Organisations
- 6 Litigation and case law
- 7 Books and videos
- 8 Example patents
- 9 Arguments and problems
- 10 Non-solutions
- 11 Current events and history
- 12 Software and standards harmed
- 13 EU
- 14 USA
- 15 Working on proposals
- 16 Campaigning and explaining
- 17 Not in any series
The Unsorted
- Australian consultation responses 2009
- Free software
- Microsoft Community Promise, and the OSP
- Novell-Microsoft patent deals
- Patent non-aggression pacts
- Patent office practice in the UK
- Patent standards here are higher than in the USA
- Patents possibly violated by swpat.org
- Protecting small inventors myth
- Storyline and fashion patents
- Ogg Theora
Countries and regions
Series overview: Countries and regions
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- China, People's Republic of
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Europe
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- Poland
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- USA
- Venezuela
Studies
Series overview: Studies on economics and innovation
- 2008 State of Software Patents
- 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
- 2009 patent litigation study
- An Empirical Look at Software Patents
- Consultation Paper on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions
- Gowers Review of Intellectual Property
- Innovation in Germany, Windows of opportunity
- Network Competition Through Regulation report
- Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts
- Rethinking the European ICT agenda
- Small Serial Innovators: The Small Firm Contribution To Technical Change
- US FTC report on innovation
- Venturous Australia
People
Series overview: Category:People
- Tim Bray on software patents
- Andy Grove on software patents
- Ben Klemens on software patents
- Brad Feld on software patents
- Bradley Kuhn on software patents
- Brian Kahin on software patents
- Bruce Perens on software patents
- Ciarán O'Riordan on software patents
- Dan Bricklin on software patents
- Dan Ravicher on software patents
- David A. Kennedy on software patents
- David A. Wheeler on software patents
- Donald Knuth on software patents
- Eben Moglen on software patents
- Erik Josefsson on software patents
- François Pellegrini on software patents
- James Bessen on software patents
- John Carmack on software patents
- Mark Webbink on software patents
- Michael Meurer on software patents
- Michel Barnier on software patents
- Pamela Samuelson on software patents
- Richard Stallman on software patents
- Tim Berners Lee on software patents
- Timothy B. Lee on software patents
Organisations
Series overview: Category:Organisations
- Association for Competitive Technology
- AIPLA
- AIPPI
- Acacia Research Corporation
- Adobe
- Amazon
- Apple inc.
- Blackboard inc.
- Borland International
- Campaign for Creativity
- Canonical Group
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EICTA
- End Software Patents
- Eolas
- Ericsson
- FFII et al.
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- Free Software Foundation
- Groklaw
- IBM
- InteCap
- Intel
- Intellectual Property Asset Corporation
- Intellectual Ventures
- League for Programming Freedom
- Microsoft
- Nokia
- Novell
- Oracle
- Opera Software
- Open Invention Network
- Open Source Risk Management
- Philips
- Public Patent Foundation
- Red Hat
- SAP
- Siemens
- Software Freedom Law Center
- Statements from BEUC
- Statements from CEA-PME
- Statements from UEAPME
- Sun Microsystems inc.
- TiVo
- W3C
- WIPO
- Yahoo
- Xerox and Fuji Xerox
Litigation and case law
Series overview: Litigation
- Apple v. HTC (2010, USA)
- AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc. (1999, USA)
- Aerotel v. Telco (2006, UK)
- Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft (2008, USA)
- Bilski v. Kappos (2009, USA)
- Burst v. Microsoft (2004, USA)
- Diamond v. Diehr (1981, USA)
- EBay v. MercExchange (2006, USA)
- Eolas v. Microsoft (2004, USA)
- Eolas v. many defendants (2009, USA)
- Fotomedia Technologies v. many defendants (USA, 2009)
- Fujitsu et. al. v. Netgear (2007, USA)
- I4i v. Microsoft (2009, USA)
- Justsystem v. Matsushita (2005, Japan)
- KSR v. Teleflex (2007, USA)
- Microsoft v. AT&T (2006, USA)
- Microsoft v. TomTom (2008, USA)
- NetApp v. Sun (2008, USA)
- Parker v. Flook (1978, USA)
- Software Tree v. Red Hat (2009, USA)
- Stac v. Microsoft (1993, USA)
- State Street v. Signature Group (1999, USA)
- Symbian v. Comptroller General (2008, UK)
- Trend Micro v. Barracuda (2008, USA)
- U.S. Ethernet Innovations v. many defendants (2009, USA)
- Uniloc v. Microsoft (2009, USA)
- Visto v. Seven (2006, USA)
- Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al (2010, USA)
- Z4 v. Microsoft and Autodesk (2006, USA)
- Case law in the UK
- Case law in the USA
- Reading case law
- In re Alappat
- In re Bilski
- In re Lowry
Books and videos
Series overview: Books about software and patents
- Software and Patents in Europe
- Against Intellectual Monopoly
- Boston swpat conference 2006 videos
- Democratizing Innovation
- Math You Can't Use
- No Lobbyists As Such
- Patent Failure
- The Karmarkar Patent and Software - Is Math Patentable?
- List of recordings and transcripts
- Software Patents: A Time for Change
Example patents
Series overview: Example software patents
- Amazon's gift ordering patent
- Amazon's one-click shopping patent
- Apple Dock
- Audio-video patents
- Black Duck's licence compatibility patent
- C2's VoIP patent
- CSIRO wifi patent
- Divine e-commerce patents
- LZW algorithm patent
- Micro-blogging patents
- Microsoft's FAT patents
- RSA patent
- Silly patents
- The Patented Webshop
- VoloMedia's podcasting patent
- Webpage and web service patents
- US2886976
- US3182517
- US4050426
- US7490593
- Image processing patents
Arguments and problems
Series overview: Arguments
- All businesses are targets
- The failing solutions are expensive
- Antitrust doesn't work
- Blocking innovation and research
- Blocking useful freedoms
- Costs are astronomically disproportionate for SMEs and individuals
- Costs of the patent system to governments
- Examples of use for sabotage
- Fear of lawsuits prevents founding of new startups
- Freedom of expression
- Harm to standards
- Harms to education
- Hindering competition, obstructing the free market
- Infringement is unavoidable
- Incompatible timespans
- Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work
- Invalid patents remain unchallenged
- Jobs and skills
- Just a Use of the Patented General Purpose Computer
- Passive threats
- Patent trolls
- Blocks competing software, reducing choice
- Publishing information is made dangerous
- Quality of software patents is particularly bad
- Software is math
- Software patents are unreadable
- Software patents harm SMEs
- Software progress happens without patents
- Speculation
- The disclosure is useless
Non-solutions
- Interoperability exceptions
- Invalidate patents based on subject matter
- Invalidating harmful patents
- Patent promises
- Patent review by the public
- Prior art database
- Raising examination standards
- Use software from 20 years ago
- Changing company patent policy
- Patent clauses in software licences
- Independent invention defense
- Buying harmful patents
- Campaigns to avoid certain patented ideas
- Competition law defense
- Defensive patent aquisition
- Defensive patent pools
- Duds and non-solutions
- How to avoid a specific software patent
Current events and history
- Timeline
- News 2003
- News 2004
- News 2005
- News 2006
- News 2007
- News 2008
- News 2009
- News 2010
- Sources of software patent news
- Current events
- Consultations from patent offices, governments, and courts
Software and standards harmed
- GIF
- JPEG 2000
- Jpeg
- MPEG video formats
- Mono and Moonlight
- Multimedia Home Platform
- OOXML
- OpenGL 3
- TLS-authz
- XML patents
- Free software distributors paying patent tax
- Free software projects harmed by software patents
EU
- EU 2005 proposed amendments
- EU Community Patent
- EU software patents directive
- European Commission
- European Parliament
- European Patent Convention
- European Patent Litigation Agreement
- European Patent Office grants software patents
- European Patent Office
- United Patent Litigation System
- EPO EBA referral G3-08
- EPO G3-08 brainstorming
- ESP's brief for EPO referral G3-08
- Briefs submitted to EPO EBA G3-08
- The EuroLinux petition
USA
- Obama administration
- The Patent Reform Act (USA)
- USA patents courts and appeals
- Calculating infringement damages in the USA
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Bilski
Series overview: Bilski overview
- Bilski 3
- Bilski brainstorming
- Bilski v. Kappos amicus briefs
- Bilski v. Kappos (2009, USA)
- In re Bilski
Working on proposals
- Choose your words
- Computer-implemented inventions
- Forum shopping
- Invention as a whole
- Particular machine or transformation
- Patent lawyers
- Patentable subject matter
- Patenting software in ROM
- Searching for patents
- State of the art
- Statistics, categorising, and counting patents
- Technology
- Unifying international patent systems
- Wilful infringement
- International agreements
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- TRIPS
- ACTA-6437-10.pdf as text
- Analyses of the patentability of specific ideas
Campaigning and explaining
- General introduction
- Glossary
- How to read patents
- Related Wikipedia articles
- Software patents
- Why software is different
- Why focus only on software
- Which sectors are for and against
- Who lobbied for software patents
- Why consumer organisations should be involved
- Why tech groups should be involved
- Analogies
- Anti-lock braking example
- Corruption and bullying
- Digital camera image processing example
- Economic Parasites
- Formulating arguments
- HTML5 and video patents
- Let's avoid the term "Intellectual property"
- Making leaflets
- Mp3 audio example
- Organising a campaign
- Software patents in the financial sector
- Fake representatives of free software
- Some SMEs like software patents myth
- Statements and quotes
- Statements from developers
- Statements from venture capitalists
- What is patentable
- Business method patents
- Consultations from patent offices, governments, and courts
- Our goals
- Please help find these documents
- Webpages that disappeared
- Ideas for info to gather
- Links to be processed
- Category tree
- Finding things on en.swpat.org
- Do software patents exist in my area
- Who owns software patents
- Should the whole patent system be axed
