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Google Profiling Social Network Users
IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent
Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock"
Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless
Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars
Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss
Breakpoints have now been patented
Apple Sued Over iPhone Browser
Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls
Ninth Anniversary of Amazon 1-Click Injunction
Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages
Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL
English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software
Amazon Goes Web 2.0 Wild to Defend 1-Click Patent
Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?
Amazon Patents Bad Service For Bad Customers
Is Apple's Multi-Touch Patent Valid?
Microsoft Applies For Patent On Private Browsing
IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents
Supreme Court Weakens Patents
Torvalds Says Microsoft is Bluffing on Patents
Bezos Buries Patent Office in Paper
Courts May Revisit Software Patents
Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids
Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks
IBM "Invents" 40-Minute Meetings
IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control
Intel Patents On-Chip Cosmic Ray Detectors
Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode!
Novell Proclaims 'We're Not SCO' and We Won't Sue
Seagate May Sue if Solid State Disks Get Popular
Should I Publish Or Patent?
The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb
The Unexpected Patents of Steve Jobs
TiVo Patent Victory Over Dish Network Upheld
TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll?
USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent
Upside Down Phone Patent
Copyright and Patent Laws Hurt the Economy
Best Approach To Keeping a Virtual World Protocol Free to All?
An Open Source Legal Breakthrough
Universities Patenting More Student Ideas
Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent
Oprah Sued For Infringing "Touch and Feel" Patent
Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun?
Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"
CueCat Patent Granted, Finally
IBM Wins Most Patents In a Single Year For 2008
Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then?
PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents
Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents
IBM Wants Patent For Lotus Notes-Free Meetings
Alan Cox Files Patent For DRM
Amazon 1-Click Lawyers Make USPTO Work Xmas Eve
Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents
Analyzing Microsoft's Linux Lawsuit
Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million
20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent
Corporate Espionage Involving a Patent At Microsoft
Lawyer Sues To Get a Patent On Marketing
Microsoft Agrees To License ActiveSync To Google
Linked List Patented in 2006
Court Blocks Controversial New Patent Rules
SCOTUS To Hear Patentable Thought Case
Inventor Open Sources "TV-B-Gone," and Why
Lawmakers Take Another Shot At Patent Reform
TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd
Bilski Patent Case Appealed To Supreme Court
Top Microsoft Execs Moonlighting For a Patent Bully
Microsoft Retracts Patent
FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents
EU Patent Staff Go On Strike
Microsoft Accused of Squandering Billions On R&D
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor
EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor
Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C
Germany Rejects Microsoft FAT Patent
IBM's Teri-is-a-Girl-and-Terry-is-a-Boy Patent
Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents
Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others
Doctors Fight Patent On Medical Knowledge
German Customs Agents Raid Another Trade Show
Microsoft Patents "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn"
Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone
Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later
Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface
Red Hat Makes a GPL-Compatible Patent Deal
1-Click Smacked Down Again, While Reexam Languishes
Vonage Admits They Have No Workaround
Patent Office Head Lays Out Reform Strategy
MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
WordLogic Patented the Predictive Interface
Amazon Wins First Kindle Patent; Bigger Screen Expected Soon
How To Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper
LinuxDefenders.org Launches To Fight Patent Trolls
Microsoft, Sue Me First
Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone
The Death of Nearly All Software Patents?
MS-Funded Study Attacks GPL3 Draft Process
Perens Rains on Novell's Parade
Companies Asked to Donate Unused Patents
Software Patent Sanity on the Way?
NASA Patents To Be Auctioned
Jury Rules That H.264 is Not Patented
USPTO Examiner Rejected 1-Click Claims As "Obvious"
Supreme Court Sides With Rambus Over FTC
Designing a Patent-Incentive Program?
Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System
Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent
Microsoft's Internal Advice About Patents
US Patent Office To Re-Examine Blackboard Patent
Toshiba Sues Over DVD Patents
Northeastern University Sues Google Over Patent
$360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail
22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents
Google Partners With OIN For Linux
House Passes Patent Overhaul Bill
Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job?
CSIRO Wins Wi-Fi Settlement From HP
TomTom Sues Microsoft For Patent Infringement
Scribbling On Digital Photos
US Supreme Court Limits Patent Claims
Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Brain-Based Development
Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones
Microsoft Applies To Patent DRM'ed OS Modules
Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks
IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation
UK High Court Allows Software Patent Claims
McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich
The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway
Oracle Fights EpicRealm Patents
Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating 'Perfect' Products?
Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined
IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring
Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler
Microsoft Is Sued For Patent Violation Over .NET
Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent
Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor
Supreme Court Clears Patent Invalidity Suits
Microsoft Patents the Mother of All Adware
Mr. Ballmer, Show Us the Code
Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up
Buffalo Tech Gets New Trial On Wi-Fi Patent
Microsoft Awarded Patent For Peer-To-Peer DRM
Spam Lawsuit's Last Laugh is at Hormel's Expense
IBM Files DVD Spam Patent Application
End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
VeriSign Granted a Patent Covering SiteFinder
Behind the USPTO's Working With Peer-To-Patent
Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems
Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations
Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug
Cisco Lawyer Outs Self As "Patent Troll Tracker"
IBM Wants To Patent Restaurant Waits
Patent Chief Decries Continued Downward Spiral of Patent Quality
Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company?
Nintendo Suffers $21M Patent Infringement Award
"Bilski" Case May End Business Method Patents
"Show Us the Code" Breaks Its Silence
2009 Nobel Ribosome Structures — Patented
3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License
5th Circuit May Stop Patent Troll "Forum Shopping"
80% of MS Server Protocols Are Unpatented
A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone
A Simple Plan To Defeat Dumb Patents
AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US
Alcatel Awarded $367 Million in MS Patent Case
Alexander Graham Bell - Patent Thief?
Alexander Graham Bell: Patent Thief?
All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated
Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers
Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea
Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers
Apple Seeks Patent On Operating System Advertising
Apple Sued For Using Tabs In OS X Tiger
Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse"
Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards
Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court
Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn
Boingo Awarded a Patent For Hotspot Access
British Government Considers Tenfold Increase To Copyright Penalty
Broken Patent System? Google, Apple Disagree
Can I Be Fired For Refusing To File a Patent?
Cato Institute Critique of Software Patents
Cisco, Troll Tracker Blogger Sued For Defamation
Company Aims To Patent Security Patches
Cone of Silence 2.0
Court Says USPTO Can Change Patent Rules
Creative Commons v3.0 Launched
Dell Says Re-Imaging HDs a Burden If Word Banned
Digital Camera Powered By a Fuel Cell
EFF Busts Illegitimate Subdomain Patent
EFF, Public Knowledge Sue Over Secret IP Pact
Encyclopedia Britannica Loses Information-Retrieval Patent Ruling
Everyday Copyright Violations
FSFE Releases Fiduciary License Agreement

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