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		<title>EU court advisors: owning software ideas detrimental to progress</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/12/eu-legal-advistors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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  There are no patents involved in the SAS Institute v. World Programing Ltd case, but there&#8217;s a very interesting statement from the European Court of Justice&#8217;s legal advisors, the Advocates-General:


To accept that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study calculates economic harm from patent trolls</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/11/trolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.swpat.org/?p=705</guid>
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By studying the movements of the stock market, three researchers from Boston University School of Law have found that over the past twenty years patent trolls have cost publicly listed US product developers 500 billion US$, and the rate is rising year by year.  They&#8217;ve also shown that very little of this is transfered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESP Australia presentation recording</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/11/esp-australia-presentation-recording/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.swpat.org/?p=698</guid>
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Ben Sturmfels of ESP Australia recently gave a talk outlining the problems caused by software patents.  A recording is online at:
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		<title>Petition This American Life to use Ogg Vorbis</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/09/petition-this-american-life-to-use-ogg-vorbis/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/09/petition-this-american-life-to-use-ogg-vorbis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.swpat.org/?p=696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
  NPR published a really excellent article on patent trolls in the software industry.  Great.  They then broadcast a radio version on This American Life.  Great exposure for the issue, but, it was published in the still-patented MP3 format.


Sign FSF&#8217;s petition for the show to be published in Ogg Vorbis format


 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU: A presentation about the unitary patent (unitary-patent.eu)</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/09/eu-a-presentation-about-the-unitary-patent-unitary-patent-eu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at unitary-patent.eu have made a video to explain the dangers of this proposal:

A presentation about the unitary patent

(For further information, see en.swpat.org/wiki/Unitary_patent&#160;)
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s &#8220;unitary patent&#8221; could mean unlimited software patents</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/europes-unitary-patent-could-mean-unlimited-software-patents/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/europes-unitary-patent-could-mean-unlimited-software-patents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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ESP ed. note: The following article by Richard Stallman was originally published in The Guardian.  I&#8217;m republishing it here verbatim.  For ESP&#8217;s information this topic, see the ESP wiki article Unitary patent.


Originally published in The Guardian.  Re-published here with permission:
Copyright 2011 Richard Stallman
Released under the Creative Commons Attribution Noderivs 3.0 license.


Just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More problems than just trolls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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Rob Tiller (Red Hat) has posted an interesting article about three mainstream articles (NPR, The Economist, Professor Mark Lemley) discussing problems caused by software patents.


That&#8217;s great news.  Awareness of certain problems is growing in the mainstream press, but discussion of solutions is still quite shallow.


Trolls, innovation, and the economy

First, a glance at the three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPEG LA&#8217;s attack on VP8 video highlights need for software patent abolition</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/02/mpeg-las-attack-on-vp8-video-highlights-need-for-software-patent-abolition/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/02/mpeg-las-attack-on-vp8-video-highlights-need-for-software-patent-abolition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.swpat.org/?p=668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MPEG LA is blatantly trying to claim a monopoly on online video.  The patent system is failing for software, and initiatives to &#8220;fix&#8221; the system are not working.  A clear exclusion of software ideas from patentability is the only workable solution.
VP8 is an attempt to free the software industry and all software developers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[USA] Patent Reform is not enough, software patents must be abolished</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2011/02/usa-patent-reform-not-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2011/02/usa-patent-reform-not-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.swpat.org/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s bill on &#8220;patent reform&#8221; will not address the main patent problems of software developers.
The bill takes aim at a problem experienced by a small number of large companies, namely, the problem of patent trolls litigating in the hope of a pay-out at the end of a long legal process.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPTO weakens obviousness requirements</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2010/11/uspto-weakens-obviousness/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2010/11/uspto-weakens-obviousness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.swpat.org/?p=634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Temporary note: For statements supporting this article&#8217;s title, see en.swpat.org/wiki/raising_standards&#8230;)

  The below text is a notice from the USPTO about tests they&#8217;re removing in order to make it less difficult to pass the test for obviousness.  Low obviousness standards (silly patents) is not the mains cause of problems, but it aggravates already-problematic domains [...]]]></description>
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