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InternetNews December 15, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Yahoo Bows to JPEG Patent Forgent rocked the tech industry when it claimed a patent covering JPEGs. It looks like the patent may stick as Yahoo has entered into a patent licensing agreement covering its use of Forgent's data-compression technology.
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InternetNews March 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Mr. Smith Went to Washington For Patent Reform Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith calls for patent reform at the American Enterprise Institute.
Information Today September 6, 2012 Paula J. Hane	Apple-Samsung Case Highlights America's Troubled Patent System The jury finding in this case has triggered an onslaught of commentary and has also brought up many questions about the nature of the U.S. patent system. The comments have ranged from "software patents are evil" to the U.S. has a "broken patent system."
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InternetNews May 20, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT.
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike	Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.
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Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 Cathryn Campbell	Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more.
Bank Technology News April 2006 Glen Fest	Patently Unaware Bankers breathing easier because their Blackberry still work have no cause for relief over patent disputes in their industry. Intellectual property litigation is a booming business against financial institutions.
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike	Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.
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The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 John Grgurich	How the Patent Wars Are Hurting High-Tech Well-intentioned patent laws are threatening to stifle innovation.
Bank Technology News January 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time.
Information Today July 2, 2013 George H. Pike	Why Patent Litigation Was on the Upswing in 2012 2012 was a "banner year in patent litigation," with increases in the number of patent infringement lawsuits filed in the federal courts and larger damage awards.
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InternetNews February 1, 2007 Roy Mark	Quality Checking Patent Reform Longtime allies Berman and Boucher team on the Patents Depend on Quality Act of 2006.
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Streaming Media Dispute Closer to Trial A preliminary Markman Order sets out the terms of the patent infringement dispute between Acacia and 11 porn sites.
CIO August 15, 2005 Ben Worthen	Patent Law Changes Pending A law changing the basis for awarding patents from the party that can prove they invented something first to the party that applied for the patent first has wide, bipartisan support. Companies would have to act quickly to protect inventions.
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens	New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.
Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond	Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make.
Information Today October 16, 2006 K. Matthew Dames	The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness.
CIO August 1, 2003 Lawrence Rosen	Patents: An Expensive Tax on the CIO Software patents cost you money. Like taxes, they skim from your profit margins, but in this case the fees go to pay for other companies' intellectual property.
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Salon.com March 21, 2001 Damien Cave	Patents are your friends Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers? Publishing work on IP.com ensures the patent office will see it and not issue patent for the idea to someone else.
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Michael Orey	The Patent Epidemic Overpatenting is wasting companies' money and slowing the development of new products.
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Patent Reform: Beware of Unintended Consequences Is it fair to patent software?
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IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar	Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.
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IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Steven J. Frank	Patent Reform Cacophy The Patent Reform Act may, in the end, merely contribute another layer of cost, delay, and uncertainty.
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner	Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Steven Rubin	Hooray for the Patent Troll! Patent owners who are often accused of being patent trolls are acting within the law. There is nothing wrong either with them or the law. Far from stifling innovation, trolls foster it. By creating market liquidity, "patent trolls" provide a valuable service to inventors.
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