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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.
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.
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.
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.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens	New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.
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.
InternetNews October 21, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	EU Patent Fight Comes to the Fore An effort to stop software patents in the European Union got a boost this week with the launch of NoSoftwarePatents.com. Red Hat and MySQL AB are among the high-profile open source companies backing the effort.
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.
Information Today July 6, 2010 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Confirms Patentability of Business Methods, Denies Bilski Patent The lengthy and complex decision, entitled Bilski v. Kappos, affirmed the legality of business method patents, while leaving unanswered some questions about the scope and breadth of such patents.
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.
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.
CIO September 28, 2011 Grant Gross	Controversial Business-Method Patents Face New Attacks A new law revamps the patent system and gives rivals an eight-year window to challenge IT-related patents in the financial-services industry.
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.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2010 Brian Orelli	When One Patent Means So Much The loss of patents on genes could have far-reaching consequences for drug companies.
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IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.
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The Motley Fool September 28, 2006 Jack Uldrich	IBM's Patently Good Idea Big Blue's decision to open patents to public scrutiny could spur innovation.
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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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.
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.
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Darren Smyth	How to invent and protect your invention Even as an account of US patent law, this book, by Kennedy et al., has little to commend it. It is difficult to understand in many places, the selection of topics for coverage is peculiar, and is downright wrong in many details.
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InternetNews November 15, 2005 Jim Wagner	Patent Commons Library Opens Doors The Open Source Development Labs group is throwing the doors open to its software patent library today.
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.
InternetNews September 7, 2005 Clint Boulton	CA, IBM Join in Open Patent Pledge Rivals Computer Associates International and IBM have agreed to exchange software license rights and releases in a bid to bring technologies to the public for open source development.
Entrepreneur October 2005 Chris Penttila	Patent Pending Have an idea for the next big thing? You'll need a patent, but pay attention to big changes in store for U.S. patent law.
InternetNews January 13, 2005 Jim Wagner	IBM's Patent Pledge Ripples Open Sourcers Reaction to IBM's pledge to free 500 of its software patents to the open source community has varied, ranging from praise to panning the software patent process itself.
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....
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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.
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.
PC Magazine April 6, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Software Patents: Microsoft's Fatal Error Microsoft's has a lot to worry about as the European Union looks unfavorably on its hidden source code and patent practices.
InternetNews November 5, 2004 Jim Wagner	For Innovation's Sake Although today's raft of companies suing other companies over intellectual property rights may give the impression that creative thought is getting muzzled, many industry experts agree that software innovation is alive and well.
InternetNews August 10, 2005 Jim Wagner	OSDL Creates Patent Commons Project The open source organization wants to create a single point of reference for software patents.
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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.
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Inc. June 2006 Athena Schindelheim	Great Moments In Patent History With the blockbuster BlackBerry settlement and a case involving eBay before the Supreme Court, the dowdy world of patent law is suddenly hot.
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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