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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]
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. He has worked in IT since graduating in 1975, in a range of software, consultancy and... [03 Jun 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 But initial coverage may have overstated the importance of the ruling, because the European Patent Office (EPO) has long been granting software patents that are enforceable in the UK. Software patents are a controversial field - as anyone who... [13 Feb 2008]
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]
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]
Dell CEO: Linux server sales increasing
News In May, Microsoft claimed free and open source software violated more than 230 of its patents but hasn't provided more detailed information following the statement. However, for those customers who might be concerned about whether Microsoft's... [15 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... open source vs MS, budget overruns, the iPhone, patents...
Comment Whilst patents afford holders "the protection of the law", the reality is that, even if I (an individual) spend £100s obtaining a patent on plastic widgets, I couldn't even contemplate fighting a smal-sized company if they infringed my patent, due... [20 Sep 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Microsoft vs EU
Comment Worse are the potential effects on software of the US attitude to patents, which has opponents even within the US. Microsoft has recently been brandishing its claim to own patents on Linux software. That the company owns patents breached by open... [18 Sep 2007]
Open source gets own legal pow wows
News The summit will provide practical legal guidance on the development and distribution of open-source software and allow attendees to collaborate on issues including licensing and patents. The Linux Foundation, custodian of the Linux trademark, has... [13 Sep 2007]
Microsoft '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 also caused a stir in the open source world by forming... [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 ban goes into effect that will prohibit the... [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 Eyematic Interfaces, was bought by Google. [02 Aug 2007]
