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  Do software patents stifle innovation?

  Software patents are stifling innovation and should not be applied to computational information processing, according to a Victorian software developer.

  By Stephanie McDonald | 18 May, 2012 08:00

  Tags: Uniloc, patents, IP Australia

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  What's at stake in Oracle v. Google?

  The stakes in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android are high for developers, with the recent finding by a jury that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights by, among other things, implementing Java's application programming interfaces (APIs] for Android.

  By Rohan Pearce | 11 May, 2012 16:16

  Tags: patents, oracle, lawsuits, Google Android, Google, copyright

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  Microsoft, Apple free to flex Nortel patent muscles

  Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are now free to license $US4.5 billion in patents they bought at auction last year from bankrupt Nortel, which could open up a can of worms for companies using technology covered by the patents.

  By Tim Greene | 16 March, 2012 02:32

  Tags: Apple, EMC, Ericsson, htc, Microsoft, Motorola, networking, patents, research in motion, Rockstar Consortium, software, sony, wireless

• Apple v Samsung case set for 8 March

  An official early final hearing date has been set in the Federal Court for the case brought against Apple by Samsung, in which the latter is seeking to ban the sale of the iPhone 4S in Australia.

  By Chloe Herrick | 18 November, 2011 14:53

  Tags: Apple, Justice Annabelle Bennett, patents, samsung, Stephen Burley

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  Samsung files injunction against iPhone 4S

  Samsung says it will file court injunctions in France and Italy seeking to block the sale of Apple's latest iPhone amid an intensifying patent fight between the smartphone giants.

  By AAP | 06 October, 2011 09:17

  Tags: Apple, business, patents, samsung

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  What the America Invents Act means for the small inventor

  On Sept. 16 President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (the "America Invents Act") into law, ushering in the most significant changes to the U.S. patent system in decades.

  By Jeffrey Shieh, senior patent attorney, Inovia | 06 October, 2011 06:43

  Tags: government, industry verticals, patents, software

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  MS-Samsung patent deal: Great news for Windows Phones

  The success of Samsung's Galaxy S Android phones just became a cash cow for Microsoft, thanks to a patent cross-licensing agreement in which Microsoft gets paid for every Android phone or tablet Samsung sells.

  By Jared Newman | 29 September, 2011 06:53

  Tags: consumer electronics, htc, intellectual property, legal, Microsoft, patent, patents, Phones, samsung, Samsung Electronics, smartphones, Windows Phone 7

• Samsung files patent complaint

  South Korea's Samsung Electronics says it has filed a complaint in France against its US rival Apple for infringement of three technology patents.

  By AAP | 13 September, 2011 11:47

  Tags: Apple, business, lawsuits, patent infringement, patent lawsuit, patents, Samsung Electronics

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  Bogus patents target Android: Google

  Google's top lawyer has accused Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies of using "bogus patents" to wage a campaign against the internet giant's Android mobile platform.

  By AAP | 04 August, 2011 14:34

  Tags: business, court case, courts, Google, Microsoft, novell, oracle, patents

• Google buys about 1000 IBM patents

  Google has bought about 1000 pending and issued patents from IBM in its quest to boost its defences against suits by other technology companies, according to documents filed with the US Patent Office.

  By AAP | 01 August, 2011 09:47

  Tags: business, Google, IBM, internet, patents

• IBM snares 5,896 patents, Apple debuts among top 50 patent winners

  IBM earned more U.S. patents in 2010 than any other company, topping the list of patent winners for the 18th year in a row.

  By Ann Bednarz | 11 January, 2011 02:24

  Tags: Apple, Canon, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, IBM, infrastructure management, Intel, LG Electronics, management, Microsoft, networking, Panasonic, patents, Samsung Electronics, sony, toshiba, wireless

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  Software patents hurt everyone, but especially SMBs

  Software patents have figured prominently in the news in recent weeks, thanks not just to Oracle's attack on Google but also--more recently--to Paul Allen's breathtaking multi-victim onslaught.

  By Katherine Noyes | 01 September, 2010 08:02

  Tags: Linux, non-Windows, operating systems, patents, SMBs, software, unix

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  Microsoft won't stop .Net on Android

  Oracle's patent and copyright lawsuit against Google for its use of Java in Android won't be repeated by Microsoft if .Net is used on the Linux-based mobile operating system instead.

  By Rodney Gedda | 27 August, 2010 09:34

  Tags: Android, C#, Free Software Foundation, Google, Java, legal, Microsoft, mono, monodroid, monotouch, .net, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, patents

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  Creation of common EU patent system faces legal setback

  The European Court of Justice looks set to derail plans for a common patent system across the European Union. The court's Advocate General believes that a centralized patent is "incompatible with the treaties" that created the E.U., according to a leaked document.

  By Jennifer Baker | 26 August, 2010 05:53

  Tags: european commission, government, intellectual property, legal, patents, Regulation

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  Ghost of Sun's Schwartz chides Oracle's Google lawsuit

  Oracle's recent patent infringement lawsuit against Google around the way its Android operating system uses Java is contradictory to the apparent joy of former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz in a blog post three years ago still hosted by Oracle.

  By Rodney Gedda | 24 August, 2010 10:18

  Tags: Android, oracle, Sun Mircosystems, patents, lawsuits, Java, Google