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RSS software patentsMicrosoft 'building open-source cult of fear'
News Microsoft has claimed open source software violates 235 of its patents but says it will not sue open source users at the moment. As well as making assertions over patents, Microsoft has... [14 Aug 2007]
Qualcomm ban hits 3G handset imports
News Qualcomm also said it is working closely with its customers and the operators on implementing new software that will provide a work-around to the patents. Qualcomm is running out of options as a trade... [07 Aug 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News In the 1980s, he founded VPL Research, the first company to sell virtual reality products and whose patents were acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. His most recent venture, animation software company... [02 Aug 2007]
Microsoft's 'new JPEG' to get standards vote
News The JPEG organisation also praised Microsoft's decision to give free access to any of its patents that bear on JPEG XR. Earlier this year, Microsoft won praise from image-editing software powerhouse... [01 Aug 2007]
Lawyer: Microsoft can evade GPL 3
News Kay Lam-Beattie, principal with intellectual property lawyers Idealaw, said that based on the limited information available to the public, the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) efforts to hinder Microsoft's bullying over... [26 Jul 2007]
Microsoft tactics akin to "patent terrorism" - Sun
News Earlier this month, IBM released more than 150 patents, in an exercise through which the company claims to "defuse the growing tide of litigation around software IP". The efforts of Microsoft to pressure... [24 Jul 2007]
Novell to spill beans on Microsoft patent pact
News And the controversy took on a new dimension when Microsoft said last week it believes Linux and other open source software infringes 235 of its own patents. The partnership also involves interoperability... [24 May 2007]
'Patents slow innovation' - Red Hat CEO
News Software patents are slowing innovation - that's the view of Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik. In an interview after the speech, Szulik said software patents... [23 May 2007]
OSRM Position Paper: Mitigating Linux Patent Risk
White Paper OSRM's conclusion: while patents certainly do not spell doom for royalty-free distribution of Linux; there is a level of patent infringement risk that Linux users and developers should be mindful of and prepared to address. [18 May 2007]
'Patent violation': Microsoft moans about open source
News Microsoft claims free and open source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report. In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges the Linux... [14 May 2007]
Vonage 'close' to patent solution
News Citron said the new technology, which will provide a work-around to the first two patents that describe how IP addresses are mapped to telephone numbers, can be installed through software downloads. In... [11 May 2007]
Has the Supreme Court killed off patent trolls?
News Emery Simon, counsellor to the Business Software Alliance, whose members include Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems and Microsoft, said: "There will be a better opportunity for examiners to weed out patents or... [01 May 2007]
Microsoft signs patent pact with Samsung
News Novell has since taken issue with Microsoft's assertion the deal represents an acknowledgment that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents. In addition to the Linux provision, the Samsung deal is also noteworthy, as the... [19 Apr 2007]
Microsoft swaps patents with Fuji Xerox
News The companies said Fuji Xerox will obtain access to Microsoft patents to use in products that include both proprietary and open source software, such as Linux. The deal is the latest in a series of such... [22 Mar 2007]
Is Google creating a Gphone?
News Among the evidence used to back up the theory are patents the company has filed on predictive mobile location-based search tech; the blog of one venture capitalist, saying he has been told by sources of a BlackBerry-like... [14 Mar 2007]
