Software Patent News September 2006

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

• 2006-09-29 EU Corante: SHiFT: Dannie Jost – Patents and software

• 2006-09-29 US DigitalSilence: Gif Format is finally patent free

• 2006-09-29 US TheChannelInsider: OSDL: Patent Infringement Not a Real Open-Source Threat

• 2006-09-29 EU Greens-Efa: EU patent law: EU Commission must not introduce EU patents by the backdoor

• 2006-09-29 EU Mueller: Ever more warnings against EU software patents by EPLA back door

• 2006-09-29 EU Mueller: Commissioner McCreevy recognizes legitimacy of our doubts and concerns about the EPLA

• 2006-09-29 EU TheRegister: Commissioner says EU patent doubts ‘legitimate’

• 2006-09-29 EU ITWorld: European Commissioner outlines software patents plans

• 2006-09-29 DE Heise: EU Commissioner announces comprehensive patent policy initiative

• 2006-09-29 US Slashdot: The Gif Format is Finally Patent-Free

• 2006-09-29 EU ThomasNet: Ending of the Format War before it’s really begun

• 2006-09-29 EU UEAPME: Patent litigation agreement is not a substitute to a comprehensive patent policy

• 2006-09-28 EU Eureporter: Parliament split over McCreevy software plans

• 2006-09-28 EU IT Industry Association warns MEPs about dangers of proposed European patent courts

• 2006-09-29 EU ComputerWorld: European commissioner outlines software patent plans

• 2006-09-28 IN India Times: Patenting is not a numbers game

• 2006-09-27 IN MoneyControl: Gathering steam (comments about Indian patent system)

• 2006-09-26 EU EU Observer: MEPs set for scrap on EU patents

• 2006-09-26 WW New York Times: Hoping to Be a Model, I.B.M. Will Put Its Patent Filings Online

• 2006-09-26 EU EU Observer: MEPs set for scrap on EU patents

• 2006-09-25 US CCIA: CCIA Warns Against Handing Innovation Policy to Patent Institutions

• 2006-09-25 US NYTimes:Hoping to Be a Model, I.B.M. Will Put Its Patent Filings Online

• 2006-09-25 EU Euractiv: EU braced for patent-battle revisited

• 2006-09-25 EU Sys-con: European Software Patents Boxing Match: Round 2

• 2006-09-25 EU UNU-MERIT: European public research performs better than thought (“Improving Indicators could ease comparisons”)

• 2006-10-02 IN Outlook India: He’s Got An Idea (Microsoft lobbying for software patents in India)

• 2006-09-21 EU BetaNews: The European Patent Debate – Who Decides What’s a Patent?

• 2006-09-22 EU Florian Müller: ID group in the EP filed motion calling for balanced patent policy, criticizing the EPLA

• 2006-09-22 EU The Register: Software patents back to haunt Europe

• 2006-09-21 EU ag-IP-news: European Patent Controversy Heating Up Again

• 2006-09-21 EU Slashdot: EU Software Patent War Ignites Again

• 2006-09-21 US Slashdot: US Software Patents Hit Record High

• 2006-09-21 EU Greens/EFA: Proposed patent litigation scheme would be a blow for Europe’s SMEs

• 2006-09-21 EU ZDNet: Software patent war ignites again

• 2006-09-21 US Lenz Blog: American Software Industry Not Dead Yet

• 2006-09-20 AU Mondaq: Genesis Of Confusion In Business Method Patents Decision (Patents to have to produce some “useful product”, some physical phenomenon or effect resulting from the working of a method)

• 2006-09-21 EU GUE/NGL: Proposal on patents is undemocratic and dangerous – Guidoni

• 2006-09-21 EU FFII: Commission unable to answer MEPs on Patent Litigation Agreement

• 2006-09-20 EU EPP: EPLA new chance for a European patent regime

• 2006-09-19 WW 271-Blog: Have Patents Killed the Software Industry in the U.S.? Hardly. (summary of and link to several recent papers)

• 2006-09-14 US PUBPAT Launches Software Patent Watch

• 2006-09-20 EU PSE: Outrage as McCreevy exposes firms to risk of €415,000 legal bills

• 2006-09-20 US VNU Network: US software patents hit record high

• 2006-09-19 WW CNet: Stallman: OSDL patent project ‘worse than nothing’

• 2006-09-19 UK Out-Law: Document creation system awaits patent judgment

• 2006-09-17 EU IPEG: Who is going to Stop Europe’s Patent Troll?

• 2006-09-16 US Computerworld: Patent troll? Say it ain’t so, Paul Allen

• 2006-09-16 US Blackenterprise.com: Patent Process May Be Revised By U.S. Senate

• 2006-09-15 US eWeek: OSDL Patent Project Under Attack

• 2006-09-15 US Newsforge: Prior art won’t solve the software patent problem

• 2006-09-15 US Pubpat: Richard Stallman on Software Patents

• 2006-09-15 US Paramuspost: Battle over wireless technology is creating bitter rivals

• 2006-09-15 EU Rediff: Of market failure, IPR and competition

• 2006-09-15 EU Commission: Meeting with business representatives organised by the “Lewiatan” business organisation

• 2006-09-15 EU Cordis: EU launches ambitious new 10-point innovation plan

• 2006-09-16 FI Serci: IPR protection of software: copyright, patent, and/or open source?

• 2006-09-00 UK Law Society of England and Wales: Comments on Second IPR Enforcement Directive

• 2006-09-14 US Groklaw: Another Request to Pick Your Brains: International Characters’ Business Model

• 2006-09-14 US BlogNewsChannel: Microsoft Sued Over Xbox Live Patent (by Paltalk Holdings Inc)

• 2006-09-13 EU WSJ: How an avid computer geek bested Microsoft

• 2006-09-11 DE Ars: “Pirate parties” raid Europe, US (PiratenPartei founded in Germany)

• 2006-09-13 WW Simon Phipps: Security blankets (MS Open Specification Promise)

• 2006-09-13 WW ZDnet/David Berlind: Microsoft patent non-assertion covenant is remarkable

• 2006-09-14 WW The Register: Microsoft won’t collect on web services IP

• 2006-09-13 WW CNet: Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services

• 2006-09-12 WW Andy Updegrove: Microsoft Releases New “Open Specifications Promise” on 35 Web Services Specifications

• 2006-09-10 EU FFII: Second IPR Enforcement Directive lacks all precision, should be rejected

• 2006-09-10 US IP Central: Too Obvious to Innovate (Software patents and the obviousness standard)

• 2006-09-10 US Todd Bishop: Exclusive – Microsoft conjugation software revealed

• 2006-09-07 EU Munich School of Management: Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference of the EPIP Association

• 2006-09-07 DE IPEG: Sisvel brings Patent Wild West into Germany

• 2006-09-06 DE IPEG: Berlin Court condemns Sisvel’s IFA seizures as “illegal”

• 2006-09-07 DE CNet: SanDisk MP3 seizure order overturned

• 2006-09-06 US Slashdot: Microsoft {to patent} Verb Conjugation

• 2006-09-06 US MIT Tech Review: Dan Ravicher – Putting Patent Trolls on the Defensive

• 2006-09-05 CA Times Colonist: E-learning gets legal lessons in battle over patents

• 2006-09-05 DE Red Herring: SanDisk Players Seized at Show

• 2006-09-05 US WRAL Local Tech Wire: Intellectual Property: A Valid Right?

• 2006-09-05 US Bloomberg: SAP Sued for Patent Infringement by I2 Technologies

• 2006-09-05 EU Etnews: GIS Firms Rushing into Patent Applications

• 2006-09-05 EU Ipwatch: India: Influential Voices Back “IP-unencumbered” Software; Copyright Debate Heats Up

• 2006-09-05 EU Slashdot: SanDisk MP3 Players Seized in MP3 Licence Dispute

• 2006-09-05 EU BBC: SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute

• 2006-09-01 US IP Central: Merges on Patents, Small Firms and Innovation

• 2006-09-04 US informationweek: Supreme Court To Hear Arguments On Software Patents And Open Source

• 2006-09-04 US Mobilised: Qualcomm To Broadsoft: It Ain’t Over Yet

• 2006-09-04 IE SiliconRepublic: Enterprise Ireland creates IP exchange for SMEs (McCreevy?)

• 2006-09-01 US arstechnica: Apple settles second patent-related lawsuit

• 2006-09-01 US ArsTechnica: Microsoft tries to patent system “for selecting and conjugating a verb”