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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
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
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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
Elan v. Apple, 2010
Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al, 2010
Apple v. HTC, 2010
Uniloc v. Microsoft, 2009
U.S. Ethernet Innovations v. many defendants, 2009
Software Tree v. Red Hat, 2009
I4i v. Microsoft, 2009
Fotomedia Technologies v. many defendants, 2009
Eolas v. many defendants, 2009
Bilski v. Kappos, 2009
Trend Micro v. Barracuda, 2008
Symbian v. Comptroller General, 2008
NetApp v. Sun, 2008
Microsoft v. TomTom, 2008
In re Bilski (2008, USA)
Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft, 2008
KSR v. Teleflex, 2007
Fujitsu et. al. v. Netgear, 2007
Z4 v. Microsoft and Autodesk, 2006
Visto v. Seven, 2006
Microsoft v. AT&T, 2006
EBay v. MercExchange, 2006
Aerotel v. Telco, 2006
Justsystem v. Matsushita, 2005
Eolas v. Microsoft, 2004
Burst v. Microsoft, 2004
State Street v. Signature Group, 1999
AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc., 1999
In re Lowry (1994, USA)
In re Alappat (1994, USA)
Stac v. Microsoft, 1993
Diamond v. Diehr, 1981
Parker v. Flook, 1978
Case law in the UK
Case law in the USA
Reading case law
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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
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