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Timothy B. Lee on software patents
Timothy B. Lee is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.[1]
He writes a lot of patent articles for Ars Technica, and sometimes opinion pieces for forbes.com.
Lee appears in the film Patent Absurdity
External links
- From his blog at timothyblee.com:
- Nathan Myhrvold’s Evil Genius - about how Intellectual Ventures makes money via patent trolls
- Software Patents from the Bottom-Up - about the literature analogy
- The Case against Literary (and Software) Patents (See also: analogies)
- Intellectual Ventures: A Reductio of the Patent System
- Why Patent Lawyers Are Clueless About the Software Industry, 23 Mar 2012, The Atlantic
- The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents, 28 July 2011, forbes.com
- Lee's software patents articles on Ars Technica:
- How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system, 30 Sep 2012 (See: CAFC)
- ITC: How an obscure bureaucracy makes the world safe for patent trolls, 21 Sep 2012 (See: US ITC)
- Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills, 2 Aug 2012 (See: SHIELD)
- Top patent court struggles to decide when software is patentable, July 2012
- Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable, Aug 2011
- US Patent Office tightens the screws on software patents, December 2009
- Supremes wrestle with business method, software patents, November 2009
- Ctrl-Z: a return to the Supreme Court's software patent ban?, January 2009
- Congress weighs patent specialization for federal judges, January 2009
- Appeals court deals severe blow to business method patents, October 2008
- Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity, July 2008
- Ars Book Review: "Patent Failure", July 2008
- Analysis: appeals court unlikely to fix software patent mess, May 2008
- Closely-watched case may spell trouble for software patents, April 2008
- Analysis: patent reform bill unable to clean up patent mess, March 2008
- Akamai takes another software patent scalp, March 2008
- Amazon one-click patent extended to gift-giving, June 2007
- SCOTUS ducks software patent issue in Microsoft v. AT&T ruling, May 2007
- Analysis: Verizon's VoIP patents drop dime on need for reform, April 2007
- EU patent courts may cause more problems than they fix, April 2007
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Tim Berners Lee on software patents (Similar name, not to be confused with)
