Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] Junk Patents (aka Software Patents) Back for Reexamination

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

RIM wins delay in Visto patent suit

,----[ Quote ]
| The trial was scheduled to begin next Monday in Marshall, Texas, but the 
| judge said a postponement is warranted while the US Patent and Trademark 
| Office re-examines the four disputed patents.  
`----

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1737782/

Repeal 35 USC 122(c) …..at least for Business Methods

,----[ Quote ]
| An examination process that utilizes the expertise of the industries in which 
| applications lie has now become essential in the very difficult to examine 
| fields of software, pharmaceuticals, and business methods.  
`----

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/07/repeal-35-usc-1.html

Time to bury Intellectual Monopolies?


Recent:

Back-Door Maximalist Intellectual Monopolies

,----[ Quote ]
| Patents would be turned into a customs issue (whaaat?), and there would be no
| need actually to show that an infringement happened in order to start
| a "procedure".... In other words, this SECURE (and for the name, see here) is
| about extending the RIAA's intimidatory tactics to the whole of intellectual
| monopolies, and globally.
`----

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/06/eye.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkhzacMACgkQU4xAY3RXLo4jZACeMbqvrV//ICB0KSOPfX2XQEy0
smgAn2cZk6TfJoEDTlyo0B+aVWaoBIxS
=A1FV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index