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By month added

November 2010

• The IT Law Wiki, 10,400 articles - might have something interesting for us

October 2010

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

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 :-)

June 2010

• (in French) links in French

May 2010

• discussion between Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte about software patents

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

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.
• French original: brevets-logiciels.info - info and wiki (English translations^[?]: Google, bing translator)
• 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
• French original: French wiki with a great page about software patents (English translations^[?]: Google, bing translator)
• 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

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

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

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)

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

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?)

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

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

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

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

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

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
• French original: www.abul.org/brevets/articles/tsuba_refs.php3 (English translations^[?]: Google, bing translator)

Patently-o links to be processed, temporary section

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

Unknown

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

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

USA general

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