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Open Invention Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open-source software from patent trolls

Open-source software — heck, all software — has been plagued by patent trolls for decades. The Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, is now expanding …
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How the Invention of Spreadsheet Software Unleashed Wall Street on the World

In 2010, a pair of researchers published a controversial economics paper. It was cited by UK politicians to justify austerity measures that sparked economic and employment crises, and anti …
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Software May be Abstract, But a Computer-Implement Invention Produces a Technical Effect

“While it is true that the software may be abstract, if it is considered to be a computer-implemented invention, it is bound to produce a technical effect, or as we call it in our guidelines, a …
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Software patent: TCS plea for protection of invention on technical documents rejected

In yet another instance of saying no to exclusivity for innovations in software development, the country’s patent office has rejected a patent application by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) seeking protection to its claimed invention relating to …
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Commercializing UAF inventions, software and technologies helps us all – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Commercializing UAF inventions, software and technologies helps us all
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The goal was to create an office that would work with private companies and entrepreneurs to market and license university inventions, proprietary software, and new technologies. Most universities in the United States have developed structures outside

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USPTO: Software Composition Inventions are Unpatentable under §101 unless … – Patently-O

USPTO: Software Composition Inventions are Unpatentable under §101 unless
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USPTO: Software Composition Inventions are Unpatentable under §101 unless they Clearly Disavow that the Storage Mechanism is a Transitory Wave or Signal. By Dennis Crouch. Ex parte Mewherter (PTAB 2013). The USPTO has recently designated Ex 

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