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| | Software patent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Software patents are sometimes confused with software copyright. | | | Substantive law regarding the patentability of software and computer-implemented inventions, and case law interpreting the legal provisions, are different under different jurisdictions. | | | See Software patents under United States patent law. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
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| | Software patent debate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A software developer may have to hire an expensive patent attorney and have said patent attorney perform a clearance search and provide a clearance opinion. | | | Patent examiners are evaluated based on the number of cases they dispose of, not whether or not they issue a notice of allowance. | | | For a software or computer-implemented inventions to be patented, it needs to be disclosed in a manner sufficient clear and complete for the man skilled in the art to reduce it to practice. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate
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| | Software Patents - League for Programming Freedom |
| | Patents Infringing on the Infosphere: a site by Hartmut Pilch against the legalisation of software patents in Europe. | | | Opinions on Software Patents, Absurd Patents and the PTO | | | The European Free Patents site is dedicated to the protection of innovation, competition and open source software against the use and abuse of software patents. |
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http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html
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| | IEEE Spectrum Careers |
| | If software is math and pure mathematics is supposed to be unpatentable, then every software patent issued exposes a legal contradiction. | | | But as opposed to the case with patenting, independent invention is a valid defense against claims of copyright infringement. | | | There are many considerations to molding copyright laws to fit software best, but in an industry with literally millions of independent inventors, a copyright is much less likely to stifle innovation than a patent or to impose the cost of hiring a standing army of lawyers. |
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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=i080205
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| | Software Patent Hearings |
| | Patent protection allows the patent holder to preclude others from making, using or selling the patented invention, as it has been defined in the patent claims, for a period of seventeen years measured from the date the patent is granted. | | | Software code is protected under copyright law as an original work of authorship. | | | Diehr, 450 U.S. Finally, through interpretation of the exclusions from patentable subject matter under section 101 of title 35, United States Code, the Supreme Court and the lower Federal courts have provided guidance in determining which aspects of software-related inventions are eligible for patent protection. |
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http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/software_patent_hearings.htm
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| | Software Patents vs Parliamentary Democracy |
| | Patent administration officials have used the pretext of TRIPs adaptation to suddenly, in a unilateral administrative act, declare software patents valid by law, subject to Parliament approval in the first half of 2005. | | | Instead of directly imposing software patentability, the proposal is now to remove the patent system even further from legislative review by any democratically elected parliament. | | | The Community Patent plan doesn't even mention the subject of software, although, make no mistake about it, software patentability is one of the main drivers of these plans. |
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http://swpat.ffii.org
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| | Debunking the Software Patent Myths |
| | While several articles discuss software patent and copyrights [8,46,47], few have been written for the software, as opposed to the legal, community [11,16,37]. | | | It includes patent lawyers, case law examples of valid and invalid, infringed and not infringed patents, and books and articles explaining patents to both lawyers and non-lawyers. | | | Software has been clearly patentable longer than it has been copyrightable (See Patents and Copyrights). |
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http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/int-prop/heckel-debunking.html
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| | European Software Patent Horror Gallery |
| | Collection of news stories and case studies showing how the granting, licensing and litigation of patents is affecting players in the software field. | | | Thus even from the point of view of enablement doubt could be casted on the validity of most EPO software patents. | | | During the last few years, the European Patent Office (EPO) and national patent offices have granted numerous patents on computer-implemented rules of organisation and calculation, i.e. |
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http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/index.en.html
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Software patent bill thrown out |
| | Dr John Collins, a partner at patent attorney Marks & Clerk said the decision was not a victory for opponents of software patents. | | | The bill was intended to sweep away individual EU nations' patent dispute systems in favour of one common procedure. | | | The bill would have also given the same protections to software when it was used to realise inventions. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4655955.stm
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| | Patentanwalt [Patent Attorney] Axel H. Horns on Patents on Computer-Implemented Inventions |
| | Such inventions can already be patented by applying to either the European Patent Office (EPO) or the national patent offices of the Member States, but the detailed conditions for patentability may vary. | | | Axel H Horns is a Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney), European Patent Attorney as well as European Trade Mark Attorney. | | | Existing patent laws should therefore be modified to include a "source code privilege". |
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http://www.ipjur.com/01.php3
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| | LWN: European software patent update |
| | Contact a member of JURI with your concerns about software patents and your support for a restart of the software patent directive. | | | Patents are not intented to fight stealing source code - that's what Copyright is for. | | | The only reason we don't have software patents in Europe is because of the efforts of activists protesting and lobbying against them. |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/121169
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| | Patent Nonsense |
| | Suppose a bunch of big software companies (perhaps led by Oracle, who's already taken the point on this) were to form PATO--Patent And Technology Organisation--and contribute all their current software patents, and all new software patents they were granted as long as they remained a member of PATO, to its ``cross-licensing pool''. | | | While eliminating software patents would be the best solution, changing the law takes a long time and is uncertain to succeed. | | | Oracle Corporation has taken a public stand against the patentability of software and has forsworn use of its own patents except to counter-sue in infringement claims. |
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http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_105.html
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| | Patent application software provisional patent application software us patent |
| | PatentHunter 2.0 is a software program that helps patent attorneys, businesses and inventors search, download and manage United States and foreign patents. | | | A patent application has certain major sections required by United States patent law. | | | Do-It-Yourself patent software helps write the patent claims for you. |
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http://www.inventnet.com/software.html
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| | PATENTWIZARD -- PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATION SOFTWARE |
| | PatentWizard was created by a U.S. Patent Attorney, Michael S. Neustel of Neustel Law Offices, LTD. | | | Unlike patent attorneys who can charge $2,500 or more for one patent application, PatentWizard allows for the drafting of multiple provisional patent applications without having to pay expensive legal fees! | | | In addition, the filing fee for a provisional patent application is only $80. |
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http://www.patentwizard.com
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| | Software Patent Index (BitLaw) |
| | A discussion on basic patent law is found in the Patent Section of BitLaw. | | | the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's current position on software; and | | | 1995 Proposed Software Patent Guidelines with Legal Analysis (82K) |
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http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent
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| | Patented European webshop |
| | Original patent list and concept by Ole Tange, ladybug photo © http://www.toflidium.com, louse photo © http://ion.eas.asu.edu/, kiosk photo © http://www.westgov.org, forest photo courtesy http://philip.greenspun.com, VISA logo © and ® http://www.visa.com, photo of Commissioner Bolkestein was published by the EU Commission and slightly edited. | | | The directive as voted by the whole European Parliament (1st reading) however, makes sure these patents remain what they are today: examples of the EPO's drift towards unlimited patentability, without any legal value whatsoever. | | | sign the petition against European software patents and to |
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http://webshop.ffii.org
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| | PatentPro Patent Application Software, how to patent, patent an invention by Kernel Creations Ltd |
| | Unlike other patent software that prepares only a provisional application, a patent application prepared with PatentPro is reviewed by a trained Examiner at the Patent Office who conducts a prior art search for you. | | | Check out the only software that has obtained its users issued utility patents--not just a filing receipt that says patent pending! | | | Contains all the materials needed to file your own complete patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. |
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http://patentpro.us
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| | Unisys LZW Patent and Software Information |
| | Unisys U.S. LZW Patent No. 4,558,302 expired on June 20, 2003, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expired on June 18, 2004, the Japanese counterpart patents expired on June 20, 2004 and the counterpart Canadian patent expired on July 7, 2004. | | | Unisys Corporation holds and has patents pending on a number of improvements on the inventions claimed in the above-expired patents. Information on these improvement patents and terms under which they may be licensed can be obtained by contacting the following: | | | Via facsimile, send inquiries to Welch Patent Licensing Department at |
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http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw
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| | User Agreement |
| | However, much of the material in the database is copyrighted, so you must agree to abide by the conditions below. | | | Termination shall not remove the obligations of User pertaining to services or materials received or charges incurred at the time of such termination. | | | At this time, there is NO charge to use the SPI Database of Software Technologies. |
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http://www.spi.org/cgi-bin/newqry
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| | Software Patent Institute |
| | about software technology to help improve the patent process | | | A nonprofit corporation formed to provide courses and prior art |
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http://www.spi.org
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