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French government announced urgent implementation of Internet upload filters(fosspatents.com)
3 points by FOSSpatents 7y ago|0 comments
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How is HQ Trivia Not going to become a total cheatfest, esp. for Android geeks?(blog.quizcover.com)
1 points by FOSSpatents 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple wants Samsung to pay $40 per device for only 5 software patents(fosspatents.com)
6 points by FOSSpatents 13y ago|1 comments
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Confidential my ass: Samsung lawyers leaked terms of Apple-Nokia patent license(fosspatents.com)
9 points by FOSSpatents 13y ago|0 comments
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Video of Steve Jobs's iPhone presentation kills Apple's patent in Germany(fosspatents.com)
7 points by FOSSpatents 13y ago|0 comments
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by FOSSpatents 13y ago
@btilly In district court, the jury identified copyright infringement, was hung on fair use (which means that this would have to be determined by a new jury if the relevant code is found copyrightable), and the judge overruled the jury to t
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by FOSSpatents 13y ago
@btilly My articles on how the lawsuit was going weren't "inaccurate". The district judge ruled against the copyrightability of the declaring code Oracle asserted, and that decision is on appeal. The parties have completed th
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by FOSSpatents 13y ago
Yes, European-style "as such" exclusion, a bit clarified but still the same basic idea. Lexology writes this about today's decision: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b966049f-14d9-... "
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by FOSSpatents 13y ago
You're right on. There's a WTO treaty on the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and it requires patents to be available in all fields of technology. See TRIPS Art. 27: http://www.wto.org&#x2F
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by FOSSpatents 13y ago
They say they've adopted UK case law, which they claim is more restrictive than the overall European practice, but even under UK rules, hundreds of thousands of European software patents are valid. HTC challenged four Apple software pa
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by FOSSpatents 13y ago
Not so fast. Spin doctoring is no substitute for substance. As Caesar used to say, "fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt" (people are ready to believe what they want to be the case). The fact of the matter is that New Zeal