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Organisations Association for Competitive Technology AIPLA AIPPI Acacia Research Corporation Adobe Amazon Apple inc. Blackboard inc. Borland International Campaign for Creativity Canonical Group Electronic Frontier Foundation EICTA End Software Patents Eolas Ericsson FFII et al. Free Software Foundation Europe Free Software Foundation Google Groklaw IBM InteCap Intel Intellectual Property Asset Corporation Intellectual Ventures League for Programming Freedom Microsoft Nokia Novell Oracle Opera Software Open Invention Network Open Source Risk Management Philips Public Patent Foundation Red Hat SAP Siemens Software Freedom Law Center Statements from BEUC Statements from CEA-PME Statements from UEAPME Sun Microsystems inc. TiVo W3C WIPO Yahoo Xerox and Fuji Xerox

People Tim Bray Andy Grove Ben Klemens Brad Feld Bradley Kuhn Brian Kahin Bruce Perens Ciarán O'Riordan Dan Bricklin Dan Ravicher David A. Kennedy David A. Wheeler Donald Knuth Eben Moglen Erik Josefsson François Pellegrini James Bessen John Carmack Mark Webbink Michael Meurer Michel Barnier Pamela Samuelson Richard Stallman Tim Berners Lee Timothy B. Lee

Court cases Apple v. HTC, 2010 AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc., 1999 Aerotel v. Telco, 2006 Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft, 2008 Bilski v. Kappos, 2009 Burst v. Microsoft, 2004 Diamond v. Diehr, 1981 EBay v. MercExchange, 2006 Eolas v. Microsoft, 2004 Eolas v. many defendants, 2009 Fotomedia Technologies v. many defendants, USA, Fujitsu et. al. v. Netgear, 2007 I4i v. Microsoft, 2009 Justsystem v. Matsushita, 2005 KSR v. Teleflex, 2007 Microsoft v. AT&T, 2006 Microsoft v. TomTom, 2008 NetApp v. Sun, 2008 Parker v. Flook, 1978 Software Tree v. Red Hat, 2009 Stac v. Microsoft, 1993 State Street v. Signature Group, 1999 Symbian v. Comptroller General, 2008 Trend Micro v. Barracuda, 2008 U.S. Ethernet Innovations v. many defendants, 2009 Uniloc v. Microsoft, 2009 Visto v. Seven, 2006 Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al, 2010 Z4 v. Microsoft and Autodesk, 2006 Case law in the UK Case law in the USA Reading case law In re Alappat In re Bilski In re Lowry

Countries/regions Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China, People's Republic of Costa Rica Cuba Europe Finland France Germany Hungary India Ireland Israel Japan Malaysia Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Philippines Poland South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Uruguay USA Venezuela

Problems caused All businesses are targets The failing solutions are expensive Antitrust doesn't work Blocking innovation and research Blocking useful freedoms Costs are astronomically disproportionate for SMEs and individuals Costs of the patent system to governments Examples of use for sabotage Fear of lawsuits prevents founding of new startups Freedom of expression Harm to standards Harms to education Hindering competition, obstructing the free market Infringement is unavoidable Incompatible timespans Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work Invalid patents remain unchallenged Jobs and skills Just a Use of the Patented General Purpose Computer Passive threats Patent trolls Blocks competing software, reducing choice Publishing information is made dangerous Quality of software patents is particularly bad Software is math Software patents are unreadable Software patents harm SMEs Software progress happens without patents Speculation The disclosure is useless

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