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Europe’s Court of First Instance is about to render its decision in the case of The European Commission v. Microsoft. It’s gonna be a nail-biter.
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From contracts to code, an intellectual property attorney is essential.
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Can the Linux desktop succeed? Perhaps, but first it
must hurdle a number of lofty legal obstacles.
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For more than four years, Microsoft has claimed that
Linux infringes its patents. True or false? Here’s a clue:
Have you ever seen the Boogeyman?
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The great minds of Europe are pondering new
intellectual property legilsation. Be afraid! Be very afraid!
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A patent case pending before the United States Supreme Court could return (some) sanity back to the patent system.
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You have to fight for your right to content.
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How many lawyers does it take to write this month’s column? Just one very smart one. Here’s a summary of legislation, litigation, and intellectual agitation from around the globe.
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The Open Invention Network (OIN) is not just another patent consortia looking to make money or to cover a specified field of technology. OIN is a dynamic part of that growing concept — an open source patent commons.
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Some of the thorniest concepts in the GNU General Public License (GPL) revolve around the engineering concept of linking. Here’s how and when the GPL applies to combinations of code.
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Some forethought, a clear statement of intent and practice, and a modicum of documentation can make contributors and benefactors more comfortable with donating and using open source code.
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Some forethought, a clear statement of intent and practice, and a modicum of documentation can make contributors and benefactors more comfortable with donating and using open source code.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s decision to mandate OpenDocument has incurred the wrath of Microsoft’s hydra, the three-headed beast known as Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Won’t Redmond ever learn that hubris is not a sales strategy?
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The defeat of the Computer-Implemented Inventions directive — the so-called “software patent” directive — by the European Parliament seems positive. But it doesn’t address the larger issues — and that could yet spell trouble for software makers.
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