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Technology Legal News Website Groklaw Is Shutting Down
Aug 26, 2013Technology legal news website Groklaw is shutting down due to concerns over the continued availability of secure email in the wake of revelations about U.S. government surveillance.? "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using ...
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A U.S. Appeals Court Ruled That an Abstract Idea Is Not Patentable
May 15, 2013A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the "death" of software and business method patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Tags: Software Patents, Software
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SAP Has Moved to Defend The Users of Its Sybase Database Software
Apr 3, 2013SAP has moved to defend the users of its Sybase database software by filing suit against Pi-Net International, a "patent troll" that has filed several patent infringement lawsuits against SAP customers in the US financial services sector ...
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Microsoft Launched a Searchable List of Its Complete Patent Portfolio
Apr 2, 2013Microsoft today launched a searchable list of its complete patent portfolio as part of its defense of the patent system, particularly software patents. The list is currently composed of nearly 41,000 U.S. and international patents ...
Tags: Microsoft, software patents, software
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Software Patents, Facing New Scrutiny in The U.S.
Feb 25, 2013Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies said during a Capitol Hill briefing. The U.S. patent system isn't perfect, but lawmakers ...
Tags: Software patents, software, US
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U.S.Companies Shouldn't Be Able to Get Patents on Abstract Ideas
Feb 18, 2013U.S. companies shouldn't be able to get patents on abstract ideas when they combine those ideas with a computer process, a lawyer argued in an appeals court Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should invalidate four ...
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U.S. Appeals for The Federal Circuit Is Unlikely to Invalidate All Software Patents
Feb 17, 2013Should an abstract idea written into software and run on a computer be patentable? That's one question a U.S. appeals court will consider Friday when it hears arguments in a case with broad implications for software patents for companies as ...
Tags: software, patentable, software patents
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Infoworld - Nearly 15 Years Since The Term "Open Source" Was First Applied
Dec 31, 2012Infoworld - Nearly 15 years since the term "open source" was first applied, the trends driving the open source movement are not the same. Back then, price advantage, direct differentiation on licensing versus proprietary software, ...
Tags: forces driving, open source, proprietary software, Microsoft
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Camera-Enabled Handheld Devices Have Made Photographers out of Their Owners
Dec 31, 2012SACRAMENTO, CA, August 08, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Camera-enabled handheld devices have made photographers out of their owners, and photo-sharing applications that easily integrate with social networks have become a hot space in the ...
Tags: software app, system invention, Camera-enabled handheld devices
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The Jury's Decision Friday in The Landmark Samsung-Apple Patent Battle
Dec 26, 2012Computerworld - The jury's decision Friday in the landmark Samsung-Apple patent battle doesn't relate to the core of the Android mobile operating system, Google said in a brief statement Monday. The jury ordered that Samsung pay Apple ...
Tags: Samsung-Apple patent, Android mobile operating system, smartphones
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European Parliament Voted in Favour of New Patent Law to Provide One Regulation
Dec 21, 2012The European Parliament has voted in favour of a new patent law to provide one regulation and one court to cover inventions across the European Union (EU). Currently EU citizens can either apply for a national patent in their own country ...
Tags: European Parliament, national patent, unitary patent, patent system
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Galaxy Smartphones Sent Operating Profits up 90% in The Latest Quarter
Dec 19, 2012Samsung has said that stronger-than-expected sales of its Galaxy smartphones sent operating profits up 90% in the latest quarter, but analysts warned its results could take a hit in the coming months as it books legal damages owed to Apple. ...
Tags: Apple, Galaxy S3, note, patent, Samsung, smartphones, tablet
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A Planned Network Are Expected to Slow The Recent Proliferation of Patent Lawsuits
Dec 19, 2012A planned network of regional patent offices and the effects of new legislation are expected to slow the recent proliferation of patent lawsuits between big-name tech companies, Rebecca Blank, U.S. acting secretary of commerce, said on ...
Tags: planned network, regional patent offices, new legislation
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Samsung's Third Quarter Profits Rose by 85 Per Cent
Oct 5, 2012Despite recent setbacks in its long-running IP dispute with Apple,Samsung's third quarter profits rose by 85 per cent,the firm announced today,largely as a result of strong smartphone sales. Acording to the Financial Times,revenue for the ...
Tags: Samsung, third quarter profits, dispute with Apple, smartphone sales
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Bill Moggridge Has Died From Cancer at The Age of 69
Sep 10, 2012Bill Moggridge, the British industrial designer credited with inventing the modern laptop, has died from cancer at the age of 69. In 1979 Moggridge designed the Grid Compass, the first computer to attach a keyboard to a folding screen. ...
Tags: Bill Moggridge, PC brigade, Grid Compass, industrial designer
