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Why abolition? 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 Freedom of expression Harm to standards Harms to education Hindering competition, obstructing the free market Infringement is unavoidable Incompatible timespans Inequality between small and large patent holders Insurance against patent litigation doesn't work Invalid patents remain unchallenged Jobs and skills Just a Use of the Patented General Purpose Computer Low risk 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 Software relies on incremental development Speculation The disclosure is useless Breaks software distribution methods Controlling entire markets

Organisations Acacia Research Corporation Adobe AIPLA AIPPI Alcatel-Lucent Amazon Apple inc. April Association for Competitive Technology Blackboard inc. BSA Borland International Campaign for Creativity Canonical Group CPTN Holdings LLC Dell Electronic Frontier Foundation EICTA End Software Patents Eolas Ericsson FFII et al. Free Software Foundation Europe Free Software Foundation Google Groklaw Hewlett-Packard HTC IBM IEEE-USA InteCap Intel Intellectual Property Asset Corporation Intellectual Ventures League for Programming Freedom Microsoft Motorola MPEG LA Nokia Novell NTP NZICT Oracle Opera Software Open Invention Network Open Source Risk Management Philips Public Patent Foundation Red Hat Samsung SAP Silicon Graphics, inc. Siemens Software Freedom Law Center Sony Staff Union of the EPO Statements from BEUC Statements from CEA-PME Statements from UEAPME Sun Microsystems inc. Symantec TiVo W3C Webvention LLC WIPO Xerox and Fuji Xerox Yahoo

Lawsuits Motorola v. Apple (2010, USA) Microsoft v. Motorola (2010, USA) Interval Licensing v. 11 big companies (2010, USA) Microsoft v. Salesforce (2010, USA) Oracle v. Google, 2010 Xerox Corp v. Google Inc et al, 2010 Nokia v. Apple, 2010 Elan Microelectronics v. Apple, 2010 Bilski v. Kappos, 2010 Apple v. HTC, 2010 Acacia v. Red Hat and Novell, 2010 Uniloc v. Microsoft, 2009 U.S. Ethernet Innovations v. many, 2009 Software Tree v. Red Hat, 2009 I4i v. Microsoft, 2009 Fotomedia Technologies v. many, 2009 Eolas v. many defendants, 2009 Quanta v. LGE, 2008 Trend Micro v. Barracuda, 2008 Mirror Worlds v. Apple, 2008 Symbian v. Comptroller General, 2008, UK NetApp v. Sun, 2008 Microsoft v. TomTom, 2008 In re Bilski, 2008 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, UK Justsystem v. Matsushita, 2005, Japan 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 In re Alappat, 1994 Stac v. Microsoft, 1993 Diamond v. Diehr, 1981 Parker v. Flook, 1978 Gottschalk v. Benson, 1972 Case law in Germany Case law in the UK Case law in the USA Reading case law

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

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