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Dell is a computer hardware company.

Contents 1 Lobbying for software patents 2 Software patents used against Dell 3 Other info 4 External link 5 References

[edit] Lobbying for software patents

For the 2008 in re Bilski case at the US appeals court, Dell filed a brief with Microsoft arguing for software patents:

• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/bilski.microsoft.pdf
  (Note: siding with MS on patent issues is usually a bad thing, but in this case MS was the victim of a software patent, so it's possible that siding with them was the right thing to do. Analysis welcome.)

Dell is a "Tier 1" member of NZICT, which lobbies actively for software patents in New Zealand.

[edit] Software patents used against Dell

• 3D patent suit extended to Dell, HP, IBM, Sony, others
• InNova v. 36 companies (2010, USA)
• U.S. Ethernet Innovations v. many (2009, USA)
• The Baboon Inc. v. Dell, cv-09-1198 (USDC CD Cal.) case (ongoing as of Nov 9th 2009)^[1]
• Webvention LLC's US#5,251,294

[edit] Other info

Dell also filed an amicus to support Microsoft in the case I4i v. Microsoft (2009, USA):

• http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/library/20090828dellbrief.pdf

[edit] External link

• Lucent loses $1.5b award in Lucent v. Gateway, Dell, & Microsoft
• Groklaw: The Dell amicus brief, PDF and text, HP's as PDF (i4i v. Microsoft)

[edit] References