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'''Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system''' is a half-hour film about [[software patents]], published on the 16<sup>th</sup> of April, 2010. | '''Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system''' is a half-hour film about [[software patents]], published on the 16<sup>th</sup> of April, 2010. | ||
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* [http://patentabsurdity.com/ Patent Absurdity home page] from where you can watch or download the film. | * [http://patentabsurdity.com/ Patent Absurdity home page] from where you can watch or download the film. | ||
| + | * [http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Patent_Absurdity_Screenings Patent Absurdity Screenings] | ||
* [http://news.swpat.org/2009/11/bilski-hearing-transcript/ The Bilski hearing transcript, as text] | * [http://news.swpat.org/2009/11/bilski-hearing-transcript/ The Bilski hearing transcript, as text] | ||
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* [http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/04/on-software-patent-absurdity/ www.0xdeadbeef.com] | * [http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/04/on-software-patent-absurdity/ www.0xdeadbeef.com] | ||
| + | * [http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Patent-Absurdity-The-Case-against-Software-Patents-Comes-to-Film linux-magazine.com], by Bruce Byfield | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:10, 16 June 2012
- To help make subtitles in other languages, see Patent Absurdity/Subtitles.
Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system is a half-hour film about software patents, published on the 16th of April, 2010.
Contents
The issues raised
Roughly in chronological order:
- Bilski
- Silly patents - many would call Bilski's patent, and others mentioned, trivial or silly
- Business method patents (Bilski's patent is a business method, not a software idea)
- Software is math (Ben Klemens explains how a "match making" patent, US6,735,568 is just math)
- USA#Legislation
- US Supreme Court
- Analogies - if symphonies had been patented...
- Software progress happens without patents
The court cases mentioned
- (see also: Case law in the USA)
- Diamond v. Diehr (1981, USA)
- Parker v. Flook (1978, USA)
- Gottschalk v. Benson (1972, USA)
- In re Alappat (1994, USA)
- State Street v. Signature Group (1999, USA)
- In re Bilski (2008, USA)
- Bilski v. Kappos (2009, USA)
The cast
- James Bessen
- Dan Bricklin
- Peter Brown
- Mishi Choudhary
- Ben Klemens
- Timothy B. Lee
- Michael Meurer
- Eben Moglen
- Ciarán O'Riordan
- Dan Ravicher
- Karen Sandler
- Richard Stallman
- Rob Tiller
- Jesse Vincent
- Mark Webbink
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- List of recordings and transcripts
- Boston swpat conference 2006 videos
- Audio-video patents
- Ogg Theora
- Who should see Patent Absurdity (in the USA)
- Who should see Patent Absurdity in New Zealand
External links
- Patent Absurdity home page from where you can watch or download the film.
- Patent Absurdity Screenings
- The Bilski hearing transcript, as text
Reviews
- www.groklaw.net
- lwn.net
- yro.slashdot.org
- ipkitten.blogspot.com
- www.the-source.com
- opensource.com
- www.patentlyo.com
- Darkness Visible: Making Patent Absurdity Patent, by Glyn Moody
- www.eweekeurope.co.uk
- www.h-online.com
- www.opensource.org
- techrights.org
- webmink.com
- fosspatents.blogspot.com, by Florian Mueller
- news.swpat.org
- lxer.com
- www.0xdeadbeef.com
- linux-magazine.com, by Bruce Byfield
- German original: Dokumentarfilm gegen Softwarepatente (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
