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The patent world is at a moment of change. The incentives for obtaining and aggressively monetizing patents are increasing.

SAN FRANCISCO — Richard Stallman steps on the stage, runs his fingers through his gray-speckled locks, and quietly removes his shoes. That’s not the usual start to a talk at a technology conference, ...

New paper from legal researcher suggests a fix for the software patent mess has been lurking in the statute all this time Software patents have been an agent of change in open source over the last ...

Discuss with the inventor the technological underpinnings of the novel functional aspects of the software and how those technological considerations support that function. Discuss with the inventor ...

A group of high-ranking scientists is petitioning the European Parliament to prevent the patenting of algorithms and software ideas, the latest twist in the European Commission's attempts to create a ...

The European Commission’s vote on software patents drew as many anxious observers in the United States as it did in Europe. At stake was the possibility that America’s bizarre patent system would leak ...

The question of software patents looks unlikely to go away soon, with significant lobbies forming on both sides and a wealth of comment in live forums, letters to the Minister by InternetNZ and the NZ ...

Software patents, apparently on the way to being ruled out for New Zealand after a Select Committee decision on the Patents Bill, might not be completely excluded after all. The committee earlier this ...

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BURLINGAME, Calif.--Two open-source leaders joined Linux founder Linus Torvalds in disparaging software patents Tuesday, the newest volley in a battle that pits the cooperative programming philosophy ...