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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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==The court cases mentioned== | ==The court cases mentioned== |
Revision as of 21:39, 17 November 2010
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Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system is a half-hour film about software patents, published on the 16th of April, 2010.
>==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
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)