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InternetNews
February 8, 2005
Clint Boulton |
OASIS Opens Up Royalty-Free Terms Perhaps taking a page out of the W3C's patent policy, OASIS adds two sets of royalty-free terms to its IP policy.   |
Linux Journal
May 1, 2002
Lawrence Rosen |
The Role of Standards in Open Source And, on how new standards are often compatible with free and open-source licensing... |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Lawrence Rosen |
Patents: An Expensive Tax on the CIO Software patents cost you money. Like taxes, they skim from your profit margins, but in this case the fees go to pay for other companies' intellectual property. |
Home Theater
March 3, 2009 |
FCC Wades into DTV Royalty Dispute A lobbying group says DTV patent holders are imposing onerous terms when licensing their technologies to competing manufacturers. And the Federal Communications Commission has promised to investigate. |
InternetNews
July 11, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM Extends Patent Pledge IBM has added over 150 key standards specifications and protocol implementations to its list of items it's willing to share in an effort to make software more interoperable. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Sun's Open Source Choice 'Disappointing' Sun open source patent pledge seen as doing little for open source developers, experts say. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Jim Wagner |
OSDL Creates Patent Commons Project The open source organization wants to create a single point of reference for software patents. |
InternetNews
February 1, 2005
Wagner & Singer |
Open Source Law Center Opens Doors A $4 million investment made by the Open Source Development Labs has helped create a center to provide free legal support to free and open source software (FOSS) projects. |
New Architect
September 2002
Aaron Walsh |
Standard Practice As the host of available standards continues to grow and change rapidly, it becomes increasingly difficult to choose among them. Which standards should we adopt today? Which should we let bake a little longer in hopes of using them tomorrow? And which should we ignore altogether? |
CIO
October 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
The Battle for Web Services Everyone wants Web services standards. CEOs think the technology will create new opportunities. CFOs believe it will save millions. Vendors see a pot of gold at the end of the Web services rainbow. And CIOs know that linking to customers and partners over the Internet will revolutionize both business and IT. So what's the holdup? The usual suspects: Politics. Ego. Suspicion. Fear. Greed. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2005
Michael Singer |
Sun Solaris Patent Release Questioned The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) is criticizing Sun and its CEO Scott McNealy for potentially misleading developers into thinking Sun's latest open source contribution is free of any legal land mines. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 16, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation Technical standards both spur innovation and protect the innovators, but abuses in the intellectual property protection system threaten US competitiveness. Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole discuss remedies. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 19, 2006
Paul Allen |
Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft: King of The Patent Hill Microsoft emerges as top tech patent holder with more than 15,000 patents pending. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft: Open Source Infringes on 235 Patents Microsoft continues to allege Linux patent infringement but still doesn't identify which ones. |
InternetNews
October 1, 2004
Ed Sutherland |
A Call for WiMax Licensing Group Via Licensing Corporation is calling for WiMax patent-holders to join a program with the ultimate goal of creating a portfolio of essential 802.16 technology that can be offered to companies at a single license price. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2005
Jim Wagner |
OSI's Open Flap The goals of the Open Source initiative's license proliferation committee were thrown into question when the creator of the organization's manifesto, Bruce Perens, was recently denied entrance. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Linux Patent Cloud Blows Over Europe The patent dabate scares Munich out of its Linux migration plans. Are they overreacting? Meanwhile, Red Hat's taking its own measures. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 9, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
Monetizing IP: The Executive's Challenge In this Q&A, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in Intellectual property, including the rise of patent pools. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Patent Commons Library Opens Doors The Open Source Development Labs group is throwing the doors open to its software patent library today. |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT. |
InternetNews
June 4, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Double-click Patent Sows FUD Will you pay Redmond every time you click-click? |
InternetNews
September 30, 2004
Michael Singer |
Microsoft's FAT Patent Rejected The U.S. Patent Trademark Office has rejected all claims to patents for a Windows file format held by Microsoft. |
Wired
June 2000
Evan Ratliff |
Patent Upending The invention police can't stand Greg Aharonian, who says the fuss over Amazon's "one-click" plan is old news. The real problem: The government lost its grip on intellectual property long ago.... |
Salon.com
June 21, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Stop the Web! We own those links! British Telecom claims it has patented hyperlinks, but one of the icons of Web history tells a different story. |
InternetNews
January 22, 2004
Alexander Wolfe |
Perens: New Patent-Suit Threats Poised to Strike Open source guru Bruce Perens looks beyond the SCO Group suit over Linux and sees other problems looming. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
David Needle |
Will All Software Go Open Source? An expert panel reveals why software patents are like smoking. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2004
Michael Singer |
Groups Debate Linux Kernel Defense IBM has no intention of disputing patents based on the Linux kernel... Red Hat signs a new development partner... Experts challenge Linux developers... |
InternetNews
August 25, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Microsoft Tweaks Sender ID License For Open Source Microsoft works to make its anti-spam proposal more palatable for the open source community, but much remains unclear. |
InternetNews
January 10, 2006
Clint Boulton |
USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S. |
Bank Technology News
July 2008
Glen Fest |
IP Practices Core to Patent Strategy John Cronin, managing director of ipCapital Group, but best known as the founder of IBM's "Patent Factory," says banks themselves are to blame for their patent predicament. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2005
Dave Mock |
The Lowdown on Patent Shakedowns The business of extorting license fees for patents can be very lucrative -- and damaging. It is important for investors to understand how the companies they own utilize and protect their inventions -- and what approach management has taken to deal with intellectual property disputes. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Linux's Patent Risk A patent review of the OS uncovers 283 patents, a third of which are held by Linux-friendly corporations like Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat and Sony. |
InternetNews
May 3, 2010 |
Novell, Red Hat Win Victory in Patent Fight Rival open source vendors prevail in joint defense against infringement charges brought by firm trying to assert rights to invention covered under 1991 patent. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Why High-Tech Firms Can't Afford to Ignore Patents When it comes to patents, high technology firms are, out of necessity, interdependent... |
InternetNews
July 13, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
PUBPAT to Microsoft: Not on Our Watch The Public Patent Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to busting overly broad patents, is paying more attention to Microsoft. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
PubPat Claims 'Prior Art' on JPEG Patent The Public Patent Foundation is asking the U.S. Patent office to take another look at the data compression format. |
Salon.com
September 20, 2000
Damien Cave |
Apple's "1-click" deal leaves a sour taste Since when does a computer maker need to license technology from a retailer like Amazon? |
InternetNews
January 11, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft's FAT Patent Upheld The United States Patent & Trademark Office completed a reexamination of two Microsoft patents and decided to let them stand. |
Information Today
October 16, 2006
K. Matthew Dames |
The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Is Patent Reform Fight Almost Over? Many in the tech industry support sweeping patent reform effort. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Linux Providers Hit With IP Suit First patent lawsuit against Linux charges Novell and Red Hat with infringement. |
CFO
July 1, 2006
Linda Corman |
What Do You Know? Tracking patent portfolios is not only critical for growth, it's necessary for survival. Here are the top 10 patent recipients for 2005: IBM... Canon Kabushiki Kaisha... Hewlett-Packard Development... etc. |
Salon.com
March 21, 2001
Damien Cave |
Patents are your friends Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers? Publishing work on IP.com ensures the patent office will see it and not issue patent for the idea to someone else. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Bows to JPEG Patent Forgent rocked the tech industry when it claimed a patent covering JPEGs. It looks like the patent may stick as Yahoo has entered into a patent licensing agreement covering its use of Forgent's data-compression technology. |
InternetNews
September 20, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Exposed Sender ID Patents Up Debate Critics chime in about Microsoft's patent applications involving anti-spam technology, now that they have been posted. |
InternetNews
June 11, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Patent in Review The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a request by the Public Patent Foundation to review one of Microsoft's many patents, the organization said today. |
Bio-IT World
June 17, 2004
Cathryn Campbell |
Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more. |
Inc.
June 2006
Athena Schindelheim |
Great Moments In Patent History With the blockbuster BlackBerry settlement and a case involving eBay before the Supreme Court, the dowdy world of patent law is suddenly hot. |
Salon.com
October 23, 2000
Damien Cave |
Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers... |
