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This page is a temporary dump for links to useful documents.
If you see something that should be in the wiki, but you don't know where exactly it should go, you can dump it here and someone else might know which page to add it to.
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
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??
