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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...
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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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar	Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.
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Information Today December 10, 2013	EBSCO Discovery Service Integrates Full-Text Patents EBSCO Information Services added content from the United States Patent and Trademark Office to EBSCO Discovery Service.
Information Today June 14, 2010 George H. Pike	U.S. Patent Office and Google to Provide Free Bulk Patent and Trademark Data On June 2, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced an agreement to make more than 10 terabytes of bulk electronic patent and trademark data available through Google.
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.
Information Today December 3, 2001 Nancy Lambert	QPAT Redux: QuestelOrbit Releases Version 3 QuestelOrbit recently announced the release of the third version of QPAT, its Internet-based patent search service...
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Information Today July 3, 2000 Nancy Lambert	Does British Telecom Own Hyperlinks? An investigation of the history behind British Telecom's patent which it claims covers hyperlinks.
InternetNews October 23, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	IBM Sues Amazon A patent lawsuit involving Amazon.com? You don't say.
InternetNews November 8, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Amazon.com Hit With 'Recommendation' Suit Online retailer Amazon.com was hit by a patent infringement suit that strikes at the core of its business.
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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.
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.
Information Today October 28, 2002 Nancy Lambert	Thomson Derwent Announces Derwent Web of Software Thomson Derwent has announced the launch of Derwent Web of Software, a new Web product that provides access to prior art in software and business-method technology.
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent.
InternetNews March 5, 2007 Roy Mark	The 'Wikifying' of Software Patents Utilizing social networking tools, a Patent and Trademark Office pilot program aims to speed applications and better inform patent examiners.
InternetNews March 30, 2005 Tim Gray	EBay Wins Patent Ruling If the action is upheld it would invalidate the MercExchange patent that led to a $25 million judgment against eBay over the "Buy It Now" feature.
Information Today June 19, 2008	Peer-to-Patent Pilot Releases Report on Pilot Project Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve patent quality by connecting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to an open network of scientific and technical experts to enhance the patent examination process.
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike	Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming.
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Information Today March 19, 2001 Nancy Lambert	Delphion Updates Web Site, Enables Access to Derwent World Patents Index Remember the IBM Intellectual Property Network? Last year, with funding from the Internet Capital Group, IBM spun it and other technologies out to form Delphion, an independent company. Delphion recently announced some changes and one major addition to its resources...
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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.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Steven J. Frank	Patent Reform Cacophy The Patent Reform Act may, in the end, merely contribute another layer of cost, delay, and uncertainty.
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Clint Boulton	IBM Leads 2006 Patent Hike IBM banks 3,651 patents as the industry sees a better than 20 percent upswing in patent grants over 2005.
InternetNews September 27, 2006 Michael Hickins	IBM Pushes New Patent Policies Patent reform may be on the way, but IBM has decided to change the system on its own and is leading by example.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.
PC Magazine August 29, 2007	Cell Phones That Shouldn't Be Comb through the archives of the U.S. Patent Office and you will find some truly bizarre and hilarious inventions that never made it to the market.
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Information Today June 11, 2001 Nancy Lambert	QuestelOrbit Launches QWEB 2.0 QuestelOrbit has just announced the release of QWEB 2.0. Like STNWeb and DialogWeb, QWEB provides browser access to the company's databases and combines full online-command-language search capabilities with some Internet-based enhancements...
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