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Contents 1 By month added 1.1 February 2013 1.2 October 2012 1.3 September 2012 1.4 July 2012 1.5 June 2012 1.6 May 2012 1.7 April 2012 1.8 March 2012 1.9 February 2012 1.10 September 2011 1.11 February 2011 1.12 November 2010 1.13 October 2010 1.14 August 2010 1.15 June 2010 1.16 May 2010 1.17 March 2010 1.18 February 2010 1.19 January 2010 1.20 November 2009 1.21 October 2009 1.22 September 2009 1.23 August 2009 1.24 June 2009 1.25 May 2009 1.26 April 2009 1.27 March 2009 1.28 February 2009 2 Big sources of sources 3 Patently-o links to be processed, temporary section 3.1 RIM 3.2 Unknown 3.3 KSR teleflex 3.4 USA general

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[edit] February 2013

• Does Art 5 UPP Regulation enable CJEU Jurisdiction over Substantive Patent Law?

[edit] October 2012

• Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents", Timothy B. Lee
• The Patent, Used as a Sword - nytimes on patents used to kill SMEs

[edit] September 2012

• http://eupat.ffii.org/analyse/epc52/exeg/ Lenz: Interpretation of Article 52 of the European Patent Convention in view of the question, to what extent software is patentable

[edit] July 2012

• Ongoing Debate: Is Software Patentable?, Patently-O - about two recent CAFC rulings

[edit] June 2012

• The Silencing of Maya - about a non-verbal child that uses software to talk, but may lose it now because a patent holder is attacking the software company. The main problem is actually in the power that Apple has over iProducts, but it seems the patent holder doesn't have a product that suits Maya's needs (otherwise the parents would mention that option), which highlights that software patents harm computer users' need for variety of implementations, to cover all needs. FFF
• Curing the Problem of Software Patents, Prof. Michael Risch (who was cited in Mayo ruling by US Supreme Court on 20 March 2012)
• Collective Shields against Software Patents?, FFII
• Polluter pays, FFII

[edit] May 2012

• Where are the jobs? Ask the patent trolls., (before 8 May 2012), Washington Post
• The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up
  • Good: explains that the lawsuits between the megacorps aren't the problem, the real problem is for SMEs and software users
  • Bad: proposes a solution that probably wouldn't work, and would also raise the cost-risk of counter-suits (which can be precisely a reasonable defence against megacorps)
• Top judge: ditching software patents a "bad solution", 13 May 2012, Ars Technica

[edit] April 2012

• Patent Office Exploring Keeping Patents Secret If They're 'Economically Significant', 27 Apr 2012, Techdirt
• Twitter: Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement, 17 Apr 2012, Twitter Engineering Blog

[edit] March 2012

• Patents for Software, Algorithms and Business Methods, 31 Oct 2003, Robert Anderson, Edinburgh University

[edit] February 2012

• Open source – ditching patents and copyright for the greater good, article
• Debian Position on Software Patents
• VA Shiva Ayyadurai (with disputed claim to inventing email) says patents hamper innovation
• Software Utility Models and SMEs, by Philip Leith
  • This is about software patents (not really about utility models), in the context of 2000 when the European Commission was working on what would become the EU Software Patents Directive

[edit] September 2011

• Ways out of Darkness – Abolishing Patents - writings of a libertarian in the USA

[edit] February 2011

• http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ - the links on the right might have some gems

[edit] November 2010

• The IT Law Wiki, 10,400 articles - might have something interesting for us
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - I wonder if they are already anti-swpat, or if they'd be interested in helping

[edit] October 2010

• Microsoft Asks the U.S. Supreme Court to Make it Easier to Invalidate Patents, by EFF's legal counsel

[edit] August 2010

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jrincayc/Patent_utils - python scripts for listing who owns which MPEG patents
• The PFIF Agreement, essay by Andrew Tridgell
• CSS selectors - nothing to do with patents, but useful CSS info for Template:navbox :-)

[edit] June 2010

• (in French) links in French

[edit] May 2010

• discussion between Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte about software patents

[edit] March 2010

• Why I Am Against Software Patents, by Stephen O'Grady - good links in that article, and he has some other good articles on that site

[edit] February 2010

• http://apps.shareholder.com/sec/viewerContent.aspx?companyid=DIVX&docid=6470121 - this page is very slow to load; bizarre html. Found in an LWN comment about DivX and software patents.
• (in French) brevets-logiciels.info - info and wiki (^[?] English translations: Google, Babelfish)
• OpenSim developers warn against patents
• http://fare.tunes.org/articles/patents.html#postscriptum - the essay doesn't contain much of interest (the claims don't have references) but the bibliography might have interesting links
• http://www.ipwatchdog.com/tag/software-patents/ - worth skimming for good ones
• http://unames.com/gen-eric/arc.htm - contains lists of links, some good
• (in French) French wiki with a great page about software patents (^[?] English translations: Google, Babelfish)
• http://www.ipjur.com/2007/05/patentability-of-ciis-new-developments.php3
• http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-9112/german-judge-melullis-speaks-on-software-patents
• http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/HackPatents

[edit] January 2010

• http://www.libervis.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software_Patents - overview with links
• http://www.zdnet.co.uk/tsearch/patents.htm - old news stories
• http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp - patent offices of all countries

[edit] November 2009

• http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/software-patents-a-personal-story/
• http://en.sap.info/“you-have-to-make-sure-your-ip-assets-don’t-walk-out-the-door”/10757

[edit] October 2009

• http://mertan.osuosl.org/ - which replaces publictimestamp, and possibly also replaces "Open Source as Prior Art Wiki" which might have been at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (hopefully only temporarily, the correct domain was http://publictimestamp.org)

[edit] September 2009

• http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-siemens-and-phillips-sw-patent/
• http://www.nosoftwarepatents-award.com/press/200604.en.html
• http://www.ferret.com.au/c/Philips-Electronics-Australia/European-CEOs-back-software-patents-n699053
• http://www.nosoftwarepatents-award.com/vote200610/index.en.html
• http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2009-0901-200115/UUindex.html
• http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090911130806414 - about MS, trolls, i4i
• http://bat8.inria.fr/~lang/reperes/patents/
• http://eprints.law.duke.edu/896/1/94_Colum._L._Rev._2308_(1994).pdf - Someone claimed this argues against software patents and enjoyed broad support within the legal community in the 90s. To be confirmed...
• http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/09/lord-hoffmann-in-agreement-with-tufty.html About the EPO EBA g3/8 and about Aerotel

[edit] August 2009

• http://lasporg.blogspot.com/ - A software patent blog for lawyers
• http://ez.no/developer/articles/ez_systems_opposes_software_patents
• http://ez.no/developer/articles/ez_systems_opposes_software_patents/patents_distort_competition
• http://www.innovation.lv/ris/latv/Bibl/studies_enforcing_firms_patent_rights.pdf
• http://www.researchoninnovation.org/online.htm
• http://eupat.ffii.org/pikta/xrani/index.en.html
• http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%29%28%20.P1%2F%25%0A (this has now turned subscription-only - anyone got a link to another copy?)

[edit] June 2009

• Jan Bergstra and Paul Klint: Software Patents
• Heckel, holder of HyperCard patent, defends software patents
• Security in Information Technology and Patent Protection for Software Products: A Contradiction?, probably pro-swpat but may be interesting
• http://www.chillingeffects.org/patent/
• http://www.tutorial-reports.com/innovation/patent/software.php
• http://wiki.vrijschrift.nl/LinksSwpatEn
• http://eupat.ffii.org/archiv/zitate/index.en.html
• http://ssrn.com/ - search for related papers

[edit] May 2009

• http://www.chillingeffects.org/ecom/
• Gowers Review of Intellectual Property - the pdf document discussed on this page has a lot of references, may be worth scouring
• There's a few articles with links on the website of the author of "The Genie in the Machine"
• Professor Harold Wegner on European Patent Blogs

[edit] April 2009

• On the SSRN page for the paper Software Patents in Germany, there're many other interesting papers in a box on the right titled "People who downloaded this paper also downloaded"
• Software patents in Europe: the technical requirement dilemma

[edit] March 2009

• Erik Josefsson's new project: The Patent Bay
• Markets Are Better Than Patents in Promoting Intellectual Discovery, Says Caltech-led Team of Economists (Note: this is about patents in general, not specifically software patents) related article, including criticism
• Transparent Patents essay by Carl Malamud
• A BSDer's page of ideas and some links

[edit] February 2009

• http://www.post-issue.org/user-interface-with-multiple-workspaces-for-sharing-display-system-objects-3
• http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/canrev/cr55/IEEECanadianReview_no55.pdf
• Patent nonsense, by John Walker May 10th, 1993
• Patently Absurd, article in Forbes, Gary L. Reback, June 24 2002
• Article by Lawrence Lessig, 1999

[edit] Big sources of sources

• League for Programming Freedom
• FFII.org - but also its old subdomains. Probably the best way to search the FFII sites collectively is using an Internet search engine
• List of 37 patent blogs
• http://researchoninnovation.org/ and their 2006 conference vids and slides
• (in French) www.abul.org/brevets/articles/tsuba_refs.php3 (^[?] English translations: Google, Babelfish)

[edit] Patently-o links to be processed, temporary section

[edit] RIM

• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2004/12/blackberry_make.html
• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2005/10/cafc_denies_rim.html
• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2005/12/rim_appeals_to_.html

[edit] Unknown

• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2004/11/dell_sued_infri.html
• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/07/appeals_court_o.html

[edit] KSR teleflex

• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/08/ksr_v_teleflex_.html
• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/10/ksr_v_teleflex_.html
• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/11/ksr_shifts_obvi.html

[edit] USA general

• http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2007/10/cafc-continues-.html In USA, States are immune??