Supreme Court To Hear Arguments On Software Patents And Open Source
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TechWeb - The EFF says the Patent Office is using the wrong standard and awarding too many inappropriate software patents.
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com. In the latest battle in the file-sharing war, the movie and music industries have petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court decision that gave the green light to software firms to trade copyrighted material.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether Internet file-trading networks should be held responsible when their users copy music, movies and other protected works without permission.
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Microsoft presented oral arguments Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-year-old patent lawsuit filed by AT&T whose outcome could require U.S. software companies to pay fines for patent-infringing software assembled in other countries.
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Telecommunications giant AT&amp;T and Microsoft took a patent battle to the US Supreme Court Wednesday, in a case that has wide implications for US firms doing business abroad.
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WASHINGTON : The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case to determine whether music-swapping services can be held liable for copyright infringement if their networks are used for illegal digital copies.
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High-stakes patent royalties battle enters another round.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether two Internet file-sharing services may be held responsible for their customers' online swapping of copyrighted songs and movies.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California  - The high priests of  free software have congregated at Google Inc.   headquarters this week to debate the future of the movement and  face down recent patent threats by Microsoft Corp. .
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The three most famous European authors of open-source software today issued an appeal against software patents in Europe. Linux author Linus Torvalds, MySQL author Michael Windenius and
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider a technology patent case that could have far-reaching ramifications for computer makers and other industries with global supply chains.
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a pivotal case pitting copyright holders against the makers of file-sharing software.
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The high priests of  free software have congregated at Google Inc.   headquarters this week to debate the future of the movement and  face down recent patent threats by Microsoft Corp. .
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A gas pedal lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court could make it harder for inventors to get patents.
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The Supreme Court said it would consider a technology patent case that could have far-reaching ramifications for computer makers and others with global supply chains.
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The dangers of software patents for free software have always been a hot issue.  But with the news that Red Hat and Novell are being sued for alleged patent infringement by IP Innovation, the matter has moved from theory into practice.  In fact, in the battle against software patents, it turns out that the open source world already has a rather powerful weapon in its armoury â even if it's one that few people know about. read more
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A legal row between Microsoft and AT&T about overseas patents heads to the US Supreme Court.