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RSS patentsNokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute
News The companies have been locked in a court battle since April 2007, when negotiations over the renewal of key patents broke down. The pair had sued and countersued each other in various countries across the world but had been unable to find a... [24 Jul 2008]
Non-Disruptive Backups and Migrations Enhances European Patent Protection and Management
White Paper The European Patent Office grants European patents. The European Patent Office (EPO) needed to support up to 60 million patents documents and 800,000 patents within a high availability and ultra resilient DB2 environment. [11 Jul 2008]
Life Sciences Solutions: Discovery, Clinical, Sales & Marketing
White Paper With expiring patents, drying pipelines, strict FDA guidelines, and stiff competition, the business of drug delivery gets tougher every year. The amount of available molecular, population and patient data is immense, and building a reliable... [03 Jul 2008]
Pharmaceutical Client Seeks Assistance in Prioritizing Its Nanotechnology R&D Strategy
White Paper The GBS Strategy and Change team then used IBM's Business Insights Workbench (BIW) tool, VentureSource, and a host of other third party research to search for existing pharmaceutical nanotechnology-related patents, VC funding, global government... [01 Jul 2008]
A Pharmaceutical Company Uses IBM's Business Insights Workbench to Mine Vast Stores of Structured and Unstructured Data
White Paper Patent and Trademark Office database contains more than 7.9 million full text and drawings of U.S.patents since 1976 and full-page images since 1790. The challenge was daunting: In the public domain alone, the U.S. [01 Jul 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News He has also campaigned extensively against software patents and government surveillance. Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's Oyster-card system. [10 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment These days, she gets stirred up by issues concerning internet regulation, intellectual property rights and software patents, online privacy and data protection. Here are the judges. Jo Best is the award-winning news editor of ZDNet Australia and a... [03 Jun 2008]
Mobile big guns back LTE as next-gen network
News Part of the agreement on LTE means the companies will agree to licence their patents "on fair and reasonable terms", which means keeping royalties for handset patents below 10 per cent of the handset sale price. [15 Apr 2008]
Microsoft strikes back at open source critics
News The OSP is a promise to not assert patents that are necessarily infringed by implementations of covered specifications. Microsoft has struck out at the Software Freedom Law Center's claims that its Open Specification Promise is not as open as it... [18 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Richard Taylor interprets the High Court's software patents ruling But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs' shoulders, argues lawyer Simon Levine. To do so would undermine a central tenet of ecommerce law. [22 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment The UK IPO interpreted the Macrossan and Aerotel judgments as meaning it could not grant patents to computer programs at all. But initial coverage may have overstated the importance of the ruling, because the European Patent Office (EPO) has long... [13 Feb 2008]
Top 10 software stories of the year
News This was despite claims made by Microsoft in May that Linux and open source software violates 230 of its software patents. Dell said there are "certainly mechanisms if customers are concerned about patents" should these claims come to anything. [14 Dec 2007]
UK-India grad school get networking virtually…
News In a statement, BT said the initiative would involve the development of new services and technologies, the filing of patents and the "commercial exploitation of research through licensing and spinning out start-up companies". [04 Dec 2007]
Vonage and Verizon settle patent spat
News The announcement comes a month after Vonage, which has yet to turn a profit, lost the bulk of an appeal regarding three VoIP patents held by the US' second-largest telephone company. The appeals court supported a jury finding that Vonage had... [26 Oct 2007]
Microsoft rolls over for EU antitrust ruling
News The software giant will now have to license interoperability information it claims is covered by its patents at a royalty rate of 0.4 per cent, instead of the 5.95 per cent it had previously sought. Microsoft has agreed to comply with a 2004 EU... [23 Oct 2007]
