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• Unanimous SCOTUS Sides with Monsanto on Seeds

  
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  On Monday, May 13, 2013, the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that a farmer who buys Monsanto’s patented seeds cannot then propagate new seeds for future use without infringing the underlying patent. The opening paragraph in the Court’s decision, which was delivered by Justice Kagan, ...
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• Are Robots Patent Eligible?

  
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  Why have claims if the claims dont matter. Essentially Judge Lourie, and the Canadian Patent Office too, are saying ignore the claims and read the specification to determine what the innovation is and then without regard to the language of the claims make your determination. Under this viewpoint claims are simply ...
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• Long-Awaited Patent Ruling Yields Few Answers

  
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  A federal appeals court on Friday offered its long-awaited view on when a piece of software can be patented. The upshot: seven opinions, totaling more than 120 pages, and no clear answer. While a majority of the 10-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed that some of the patent claims ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal Circuit Nightmare in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.

  
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  The only thing we know is this — the Federal Circuit issued an extraordinarily brief per curiam decision, which stated: "Upon consideration en banc, a majority of the court affirms the district court’s holding that the asserted method and computer-readable media claims are not directed to eligible subject matter ...
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• New Zealand government closes door on software patents

  
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  The ruling party in New Zealand has decided to drop a controversial plan to expand patenting of software in the island nation. The move was hailed by IT professionals and open Internet advocates. Earlier versions of the governments proposed overhaul to New Zealands patent laws seemed to open the door to patents ...
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• New Zealand Decides Software Is Not Patentable

  
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  The New Zealand government has refreshed it’s Patents Bill to affirm that software is not patentable in New Zealand. The new bill is an update that replaces the country’s Patents Act of 1953. The Commerce Select Committee has been working out the details of its Supplementary Order Paper for years. The order ...
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• A Conversation about Software Patents

  
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  On March 25, 2013, I spoke on the record with Eric Gould Bear (left) about software innovations, software patents and the trials and tribulations of litigating software patents long after they were first written. Bear is an inventor on over 100 patents and patent applications in the software space. He has spent ...
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• FRAND, Uncertainty & Doubt

  
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  It’s been interesting to watch the latest patent litigation between Microsoft and Motorola. The judge’s opinion has been well documented (see Groklaw’s copy here and an annotated one there over at the Essential Patent blog ). Now I’m not going to offer an informed  legal perspective in this post and by the ...
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• Software Patents: The Engineer vs. Designer Perspective

  
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  As a designer, I just like to be hands on, managing the quality of the work and making sure it communicates exactly what we need it to say. And, I’m the same in preparing for court. I like to create demonstratives and be the one giving tutorials to the court – because live presentations are often the best way to ...
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• Please Help Save Open Source Seeds Now

  
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  Seeds have much in common with code.  Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software.  In particular, they suffer from the same problem: patents.  Patents give control over key technologies, which makes the corresponding commons even more valuable for the freedom it offers. And ...
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• Senator Charles Schumer Shows Leadership On Patent Abuse

  
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  For years Senator Charles Schumer of New York has been a driving force in the battle to abolish low quality business method patents, the type that patent trolls regularly use to attack businesses with vexatious lawsuits. He authored Section 18 of the America Invents Act , which is known as the transitional program ...
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• Software Patents: Drafting for Litigation and a Global Economy

  
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  On March 25, 2013, I spoke on the record with Eric Gould Bear (left) about software innovations, software patents and the trials and tribulations of litigating software patents long after they were first written. In Part I of our interview, titled Designing Into the Path of Disruptive Technology, we discussed the ...
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• Alex Tabarrok on innovation

  
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  Alex Tabarrok, author of the ebook Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast discusses America’s declining growth rate in total factor productivity, what this means for the future of innovation, and what can be done to improve the situation. Accroding to Tabarrok, ...
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• The case for Open 3D Printing (now with links)

  
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  3D Printing is all the hype these days, at least among some communities. What it really is however spans  a lot of different things, several different uses and in general many different realities. 3D printing has actual uses in lots of industries and can be considered to be born out of the need for more rapid ...
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• Designing Into the Path of Disruptive Technology: An Interview with Software Expert Eric Gould Bear

  
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  It’s important to remember that ideas are a dime a dozen. And what matters at the end of the day, in my mind, is what works well for people. It comes down to making sure that your flash of genius is a fit for what’s valuable to real people in everyday life. Whether in a consumer space or in business, it doesn’t ...
  3 weeks ago

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