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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.
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Clint Boulton	USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S.
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike	Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming.
Information Today May 2004 George H. Pike	You Can't Do That, It's Patented There are an increasing number of questionable patent claims that cover Internet technologies and techniques, and permission must be obtained for their use.
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.
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.
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.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2006	Patents: Eleven Issues To Consider... How patent savvy are you?
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.
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.
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.
Salon.com October 23, 2000 Damien Cave	Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers...
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.
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 July 2008 Glen Fest	IP Practices Core to Patent Strategy John Cronin, managing director of ipCapital Group, but best known as the founder of IBM's "Patent Factory," says banks themselves are to blame for their patent predicament.
PC World April 2006 Andrew Brandt	Patent Overload Hampers Tech Innovation Application backlog and continuing patent disputes add up to a mounting crisis.
CIO August 1, 2003 Radcliffe & Rosen	Patent, Copyright and Trade Secret -- What's the Difference? - The intellectual property in software can be protected three ways: patents, copyrights and trade secrets.
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Patently Unfair? Overworked patent examiners and outdated rules are just two of the reasons critics of some tech patents say the process needs fixing.
CIO January 1, 2003 Christopher Koch	Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled.
Chemistry World January 26, 2009 Jia & Yuan	China pushes for higher quality patents In an effort to boost the quality of patent applications, and encourage Chinese firms to obtain international patents, China has revised its patent law.
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.
Searcher January 2001 Nancy Lambert	The Better Mousetrap - BountyQuest: Let the Hunt Begin On October 18, BountyQuest Corp., a Boston-based start-up, launched a new Web site that has fired the imagination of professional patent searchers...
Wired June 2000 Evan Ratliff	Patent Upending The invention police can't stand Greg Aharonian, who says the fuss over Amazon's "one-click" plan is old news. The real problem: The government lost its grip on intellectual property long ago....
Information Today June 14, 2010 George H. Pike	U.S. Patent Office and Google to Provide Free Bulk Patent and Trademark Data On June 2, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced an agreement to make more than 10 terabytes of bulk electronic patent and trademark data available through Google.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Patent Reform: Beware of Unintended Consequences Is it fair to patent software?
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.
InternetNews December 10, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Will Linux Defenders Save Linux from Microsoft? New legal initiative is designed to ensure quality patents and get rid of bad ones.
Information Today June 19, 2008	Peer-to-Patent Pilot Releases Report on Pilot Project Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve patent quality by connecting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to an open network of scientific and technical experts to enhance the patent examination process.
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.
InternetNews March 5, 2007 Roy Mark	The 'Wikifying' of Software Patents Utilizing social networking tools, a Patent and Trademark Office pilot program aims to speed applications and better inform patent examiners.
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens	New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.
CIO August 1, 2003 Mark Radcliffe	Patents: A Small Price to Pay for Progress For CIOs, the issue is not whether patents should be granted for software but whether anything can be done to improve the quality of the granted patents. The problem relates more to the examining process in the USPTO than to the appropriateness of patents for software.
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Paul Allen	Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility.
InternetNews September 3, 2009	Microsoft: Can't Our Patent Systems Get Along? Senior Microsoft legal eagle advocates "harmonization" of patent systems worldwide in blog post.
InternetNews November 28, 2006 Roy Mark	High Court Tackles The Not-So-Obvious The United States Supreme Court will talk gas pedals today in a case the technology industry hopes the justices will find all too obvious. The outcome could be a landmark decision that redefines how patents are issued.
InternetNews July 31, 2007 Larry Barrett	RealNetworks Case Highlights Sea-Change In Patent Law Supreme Court ruling puts patent trolls on notice.
InternetNews September 20, 2004 Jim Wagner	Exposed Sender ID Patents Up Debate Critics chime in about Microsoft's patent applications involving anti-spam technology, now that they have been posted.
InternetNews May 19, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	A Tale of Two Patents Google applied for a patent on serving ads to Gmail users. But an upstart called Sponster might have beaten it to the punch.
Information Today December 10, 2013	EBSCO Discovery Service Integrates Full-Text Patents EBSCO Information Services added content from the United States Patent and Trademark Office to EBSCO Discovery Service.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Kirk Teska	The Foreign Patent Money Trap You may well need patents in many countries, but that doesn't mean you can afford them.
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.
CFO November 1, 2007 Avital Louria Hahn	Innovators' Dilemma New patent laws may complicate life for inventive companies.
Bank Technology News March 2001 John Hackett	In Pursuit of Patents Bankers and their suppliers fear fallout from an over-burdened Patent and Trade Office...
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Paula Campbell Evans	Patently More Difficult The PTO has targeted gene patents with new application guidelines. Here's what they mean and how biotech companies can satisfy them.
InternetNews June 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Patent in Review The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a request by the Public Patent Foundation to review one of Microsoft's many patents, the organization said today.
InternetNews January 11, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft's FAT Patent Upheld The United States Patent & Trademark Office completed a reexamination of two Microsoft patents and decided to let them stand.
CIO September 28, 2012 Kim S. Nash	Companies Race to the Patent Office to Protect Their IT Breakthroughs There's a patent gold rush under way as savvy companies seek to lock in the competitive advantage from their IT innovations. CIOs ought to seek patents for unique business methods and other inventions made possible by new technology.
Salon.com February 15, 2002 Damien Cave	Losing the war on patents Market-based attempts (like BountyQuest) to fix the intellectual property system are faltering. Is it time to bring in the feds?
InternetNews September 27, 2006 Michael Hickins	IBM Pushes New Patent Policies Patent reform may be on the way, but IBM has decided to change the system on its own and is leading by example.
InternetNews November 16, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	PubPat Claims 'Prior Art' on JPEG Patent The Public Patent Foundation is asking the U.S. Patent office to take another look at the data compression format.