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	List of software patents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unisys acquired a patent on LZW compression, a fundamental part of the widely-used GIF graphics format.
		An outcry ensued that this was an attempt to patent something that had been in active use for many years, and the furor was so great that the Patent Office commissioner quickly started an "reexamination" to re-investigate the claim.
		The Microsoft FAT patents were used to collect considerable royalties but were successfully challenged.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_software_patents (751 words)

	Talk:List of software patents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Move to List of software patents (which of course is really a list of notable software patents, but not just controversial ones).
		The same could be said of List of people by name and most of the other lists as well.
		The general topic of Software patents is important and encyclopedic, and the list of specific examples with short descriptions is valuable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:List_of_software_patents (391 words)

	Oracle Corporation - Patent Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even if patent law were appropriate for protection of software, due to the large volume of recently-granted software patents and the rising number of new applications, the current patent process would continue to be troublesome for the software industry.
		Software patent examinations are hindered by the limited capability of searching prior art, by the turnover rate among examiners in the Patent and Trademark Office, and by the confusion surrounding novelty and innovation in the software arena.
		Patent law should be consistent throughout the world and, if it is to be applicable to software, should extend for much shorter periods of protection than exist now, unified prior art searching capabilities, equal standards of novelty, the elimination of patent rules that allow "patent flooding," and identical standards for prior use restrictions (bar dates).
	www.base.com /software-patents/statements/oracle.html (1473 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of software patents
		Software patents and patents on computer-implemented inventions (CII) are a class of patents and one of many legal aspects of computing.
		Submarine patent is an informal legal term for a patent published long after the original application was filed.
		Lists of patents The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is a lobbying association based in Munich, Germany, and strongly against software patents.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-software-patents (1662 words)

	Software Patents - League for Programming Freedom
		List of initial patents in the proposed MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License (as of 26 April 2002).
		Patents on compression of random data: Jean-loup Gailly reports that The US patent office has recently granted at least two patents on a mathematically impossible process: compression of truly random data.
		Software Developer Survey: a survey from October 1994 shows that many software developers are unhappy with the existing patent law, and want to see it changed.
	lpf.ai.mit.edu /Patents/patents.html (6238 words)

	Saving Europe from Software Patents - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		Imagine that each time you made a software design decision, and especially whenever you used an algorithm that you read in a journal or implemented a feature that users ask for, you took a risk of being sued.
		Patents have played havoc with free software already.
		Unisys had obtained a patent on the LZW data compression algorithm, which is one part of generating GIF format, and refuses to permit free software to use LZW (2).
	www.gnu.org /philosophy/savingeurope.html (881 words)

	An Industry at Risk
		Patents and patent laws are so complex that even an ungrounded lawsuit may take a year to resolve, simply because it may be hard to prove quickly that the other side does not have a case.
		Most large software companies are by now well aware of the threat that software patents can pose to their business interests, and as a method of protection are attempting to build up "defensive" patent portfolios that can be cross-licensed with other large corporations.
		Software patents are even more dangerous; they make every design decision in the development of a program carry a risk of a lawsuit, with draconian pretrial seizure.
	lpf.ai.mit.edu /Patents/industry-at-risk.html (12490 words)

	Richard Stallman: Software Patents, Cambridge, UK, 2002-03-25
		Software patents are patents that cover software ideas, ideas which you would use in developing software.
		Patents are issued by a patent office in response to an application.
		Simply by modifying this to say software ideas cannot be patented will keep the problem out of Europe for the most part, except for some countries that may have admitted the problem on their own.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~mgk25/stallman-patents.html (8975 words)

	IBM News - 2005-01-10 Feast for open source as IBM opens patent pantry United States
		This is believed to be the largest pledge ever of patents of any kind and represents a major shift in the way IBM manages and deploys its intellectual property portfolio.
		Patents included in the pledge relate to many aspects of software innovation.
		The pledged patents cover a wide spectrum, including patents on operating systems, databases, methods for testing programming interfaces, and even cursive text recognition.
	www.ibm.com /news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html (339 words)

	Burn All GIFS
		The counter-copyright initiative is analogous to the idea of copyleft and open source in the software context.
		A long-time opponent of software patents, she is professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
		Opposition to software patents in a statement at a Public Hearing on Use of the Patent System to Protect Software Related Inventions, Wednesday, January 26, 1994 at the San Jose Convention Center.
	www.jamesshuggins.com /h/tek1/burn_all_gifs.htm (2767 words)

	When Software Patents Go Bad
		The problem we have, and it's a big problem, is that the right patents are not being issued," said Thomas Colson, CEO and president of IP.com, a company offering a novel approach to protecting inventors.
		Bad patents are things that never should have been issued in the first place.
		At BustPatents, a site dedicated to exposing what it calls the "patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce," the list of software patents that have been invalidated either by the USPTO during a patent re-examination or by the courts (in litigation) reads like a page out of Mad Magazine.
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/1462741 (969 words)

	Patent Fetcher - Pay As You Go Patent PDFs
		On our Pay-As-You-Go Patent Fetcher site, you pay only US$0.65 (65 cents!) to download Patent PDFs from the entire collection of U.S. patents and published patent applications, as well as any foreign publications for which there are images at the EPO Web site.
		High speed patent downloads of patent PDFs via a separate server with dedicated bandwidth, with full access to millions of patents and published patent applications from the U.S. and from over two dozen other countries and regional patent offices.
		Patent Fetcher is a service of Stroke of Color, Inc., an intellectual property development, licensing, and holding company.
	PatentFetcher.com (291 words)

	Patented European webshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The directive as voted by the whole European Parliament (1st reading) however, makes sure these patents remain what they are today: examples of the EPO's drift towards unlimited patentability, without any legal value whatsoever.
		A high quality A0 version of this image, as well as versions in many other languages, are also available (see "patented webshop" section).
		Original patent list and concept by Ole Tange, ladybug photo © http://www.toflidium.com, louse photo © http://ion.eas.asu.edu/, kiosk photo © http://www.westgov.org, forest photo courtesy http://philip.greenspun.com, VISA logo © and ® http://www.visa.com, photo of Commissioner Bolkestein was published by the EU Commission and slightly edited.
	webshop.ffii.org (456 words)

	Litman Law - Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights
		We conduct patent and trademark searches, prepare and handle U.S., foreign and international applications, and help our clients use their rights in business or sell or license these rights.
		Our 20+ patent attorneys and agents handle inventions relating to business methods, software, electronics, medical devices, compositions, toys, games, and sporting and consumer goods.
		Follow-up professional consultation(s) with a registered patent practitioner about the search results and how to protect and profit from your invention.
	www.LitmanLaw.com (329 words)

	ipedia.com: List of software patents Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Notable software patents include: Unisys acquired a patent on LZW compression, a fundamental part of the widely-used GIF graphics format.
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