Software Patent News December 2006

What happened in December 2006 concerning software patents and related topics: Latest news linked to dossiers and tutorials provided by FFII and a community of wiki editors.

• 2006-12-28 US eWeek: Judge Dismisses Patent Lawsuit Against Google

• 2006-12-29 US MSNBC: US patents for financial services boost

• 2006-12-13 US NiallKennedy: Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates

• 2006-12-27 US MSNBC: Bankers are beating path to patent office

• 2006-12-27 US Chicago Tribune: Google wins dismissal of suit over search patents

• 2006-12-27 US TelematicsJournal: TCS Awarded New Location Patent

• 2006-12-26 US InformationWeek: Microsoft Defends RSS Patent Applications

• 2006-12-23 US Finanznarichten: Garmin Obtains Complete Victory on TomTom Patents, Will Pursue Own Patent Claims Against TomTom

• 2006-12-23 WW British Medical Journal: Scrooge and intellectual property rights (Slashdot discussion)

• 2006-12-22 US Slashdot: ESR’s Desktop Linux 2008 Deadline

• 2006-12-22 US TechWorld: Samba co-founder leaves ‘pariah’ Novell

• 2006-12-22 US InformationWeek: Microsoft Seeks RSS Patents; Blogosphere Worries

• 2006-12-21 EU RobertGaloppini: European Patent Conference invitation (wed 24 January, Brussels)

• 2006-12-21 US Cpilive: Door open to open-source pacts

• 2006-12-20 US ACS Blog: Report: Patent Law Stifles Drug Innovation (-> Slashdot)

• 2006-12-18 UK The Register: Halliburton loses software patent appeal in UK

• 2006-12-18 US Computerworld: GPLv3 touted as foil to Microsoft-Novell deal

• 2006-12-18 US News-leader: Peerflix could gain clout from patent

• 2006-12-18 US Patently-O: Microsoft v. AT&T: Transnational Patent Law At The Supreme Court

• 2006-12-18 US UnionLeader: Bryan Lord: NH’s future rests on intellectual property rights

• 2006-12-18 US Timedispatch: Ask the propeller heads: Patent dispute at heart of surfer’s pop-up blues

• 2006-12-18 US Computerworld: Amazon says IBM infringes patents in WebSphere

• 2006-12-18 EU Vanguardngr: Changes by ETSI will reduce the uncertainty around intellectual property rights — GSMA

• 2006-12-18 US ITNewsonline: US Software Patents Have No Right to Cover Activity Outside of the US

• 2006-12-18 US Usability: 79 Usability Patents by Jakob Nielsen

• 2006-12-18 US Lasers-in-the-jungle: a letter from Knuth to the U.S. Patent Office in Sept. 2003

• 2006-12-18 US Lambda-the-ultimate: Theorem proving and patents…

• 2006-12-18 US Nypost: Online DVD service may stir patent furor

• 2006-12-16 US Slashdot: China Readies Royalty-Free DVD Format, Again

• 2006-12-16 US Slashdot: Microsoft Deems Emotiflags Patent-Worthy

• 2006-12-15 US TechDirt: But What Are Software Patents Good For?

• 2006-12-15 US TechDirt: Patent Reform At Amazon And IBM Apparently Means Suing The Crap Out Of Each Other

• 2006-12-15 US Softwarefreedom: Software Freedom Law Center Files Brief with Supreme Court Arguing Against Software Patents

• 2006-12-15 US Softwarefreedom: Brief filed in Microsoft v. AT&T

• 2006-12-15 US Groklaw: SFLC Files Briefs with Supreme Court Arguing Against Software Patents

• 2006-12-14 US Groklaw: Open Invention Network’s Jerry Rosenthal Answers Your Questions

• 2006-12-14 DE Computerworld: SanDisk MP3 patent battle still ongoing

• 2006-12-14 US Broadcastnewsroom: Acacia Technologies Acquires Rights to Patent for Medical Monitoring Technology

• 2006-12-14 US ZDNet UK: How to Google the Wright patent

• 2006-12-13 US CNET: Senator: Expect data privacy and patent law rewrite

• 2006-12-14 EU AGIP: EP Civil Liberties Committee Criminalizes Business Conflicts

• 2006-12-14 EU FFII: EP Civil Liberties committee criminalises business conflicts

• 2006-12-13 EU CEO: ExxonMobil and DG Internal Market win worst EU Lobby Awards 2006

• 2006-12-14 EU Euobserver: Dodgy EU lobbying in spotlight

• 2006-12-14 EU Eux: ExxonMobil wins Worst EU Lobby Award (DG Internal Market wins award for “worst priviledged access” for Patent Consultation)

• 2006-12-14 EU Heise: Worst Lobby Award (dt.) (Worst Privileged Access: EU Commission, Worst Lobby: Exxon)

• 2006-12-13 EU ZDNet: Patent Office considers Wiki peer review

• 2006-12-13 US IBM Research: The evolution of intellectual property (official report (PDF) from an IBM conference July 2006 on IP)

• 2006-12-12 US Sakai: Patent Defense Mechanisms for Open Source Communities

• 2006-12-12 UK Schmoller: UK Treasury’s Gowers Review picks up on the Blackboard Patent

• 2006-12-12 US Signonsandiego: Qualcomm infringed on patent from rival

• 2006-12-12 US Newswireless: In praise of Gowers

• 2006-12-12 US Netpr: Customers Strongly Endorse New Microsoft-Novell Deal

• 2006-12-12 EU TheRegister: Plan for European patent court may fail, says EU Commissioner

• 2006-12-11 WW LXer: Microsoft answers IP questions posed in LXer open letter

• 2006-12-11 EU Out-law: Plan for European patent court may fail, says EU Commissioner

• 2006-12-07 EU EuropeanVoice: Intellectual property fights

• 2006-12-07 EU EuropeanVoice: Europe should wake its sleeping patents

• 2006-12-07 EU EuropeanVoice: Fed-up McCreevy puts EU patent bid on back burner

• 2006-12-07 EU EuropeanVoice: Can Europe afford to patent and protect?

• 2006-12-11 EU FFII: FFII President says current patent system not sustainable

• 2006-12-06 US Washingtonpost: A Powerful Voice in Patent Disputes

• 2006-12-08 EU ManagingIP: McCreevy dashes hopes for European patent court

• 2006-12-08 US InformationWeek: Microsoft Seeks Ad-Targeting Patent for DVRs

• 2006-12-08 US ITjungle: IBM Sues PSI: You Say Emulate, We Say Litigate

• 2006-12-07 US Colorado: CU-Boulder Professor Calls For U.S. Patent Reforms To Spur Innovation, Global Competition

• 2006-12-09 US Huliq: Samsung Joins DVD6C in Licensing DVD Patents

• 2006-12-08 AU Linuxworld: Shelving of EU patent court draws ire

• 2006-12-08 US ZDNet: Playing the patent game

• 2006-12-07 UK TheRegister: McCreevy laments unpopular EPLA

• 2006-12-08 US CBC: Nintendo game controller sparks patent lawsuit

• 2006-12-07 EU LegalWeek: The Bar: Patent Care (analysis of effect of EPLA on UK legislation)

• 2006-12-05 US ZDNet: IBM accuses mainframe cloner of patent infringment

• 2006-12-05 EU Council: 2769th Competitiveness Council Meeting, Brussels, 4 December 2006

• 2006-12-05 IT Assodigitale: Speech of Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society

• 2006-12-05 EU IAM: Why would France oppose the EPLA?

• 2006-12-05 EU Horns: Ms. Viviane Reding on ‘Patent Ambushes’

• 2006-12-05 EU Horns: 2769th Council Meeting, Brussels

• 2006-12-05 EU Gulf-times: Commission forced to delay patent proposals

• 2006-12-05 EU EUObserver: EU locked in ‘deja vu’ patent reform problems

• 2006-12-05 EU FT: Hopes fade for EU patents reform initiative

• 2006-12-04 EU Gulf-times: EU makes ‘some progress’ on simplifying customs code

• 2006-12-04 EU Fiona Williamson: Group N – Should the EU adopt the US model of software patenting?

• 2006-12-04 US Slashdot: Apple’s Billion Dollar Patent & Other Stories From Patentland

• 2006-12-04 US Roughlydrafted: Apple’s Billion Dollar Patent Bluster

• 2006-12-01 EU Horns: Enforcing Patents on CIIs in Germany

• 2006-12-01 US Groklaw: The Gotcha on that MS License on the Office 2007 “Giveaway”

• 2006-11-29 EU Patentfrei: EPLA Dispute – SMEs unsatisfied with ICT Task Force

• 2006-12-01 EU Playfuls: German Court Finds DVD Disc Manufacturer ODS Infringes MPEG-2 Patents

• 2006-12-01 US BusinessWire: Acacia Technologies Acquires Rights to Patent for Electronic Address List Management

• 2006-12-01 US Heise: FSF founder wants to prevent further agreements between Novell and Microsoft

• 2006-12-01 UK ZDNet: Open-source group seeks reversal of ‘junk patent’

• 2006-12-01 US vnunet:Game cheats ‘blocked’ by new software patent

• 2006-12-01 US playfuls:Apple itunes patent settlement