Tag Archives: patent

The White House – Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

Why haven’t you signed this petition?

NYTimes.com – Its Gene Patents Upheld, Myriad Genetics Moves to Protect Its Secrets

Regard­less of whether or not you agree with the idea of patents on genes, the fact that these patents are forc­ing patients to undergo a more expen­sive and less effec­tive pro­ce­dure should give any­one concern.

Ars Technica – Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable

The court seems to be try­ing to not rule against all soft­ware patents while acknowl­edg­ing they are bro­ken and need to be reformed.

Groklaw – Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys

What’s inter­est­ing about this story is the sus­pi­cion that Google and Apple had not pre­vi­ously filed re-examination requests because their agree­ments with Lodsys pre­vented such an action, appar­ently not so at least for Google.

This American Life – When Patents Attack!

Not upset enough about patents, spend an hour and you’ll get even more upset.

The Economist – Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity

Yet another in a long line of arti­cles decry­ing the patent system.

PLATO History – Yet another PLATO innovation ignored, this time patented by Google

Even Google sub­mits stu­pid and ridicu­lous patents, for stuff already “invented”.