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InternetNews March 21, 2011 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Takes Legal Aim at Android Devices Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec over patent infringement
InternetNews November 23, 2004 Clint Boulton	Torvalds Puts Name to EU Software Patent Dispute Open source software gurus criticized a European Union council for attempting to add a software patent directive they say will stifle innovation and competition.
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InternetNews February 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB The chief talks about competition in the open source database space and treating software like ... art?
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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.
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens	New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.
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InternetNews November 30, 2010	Microsoft's i4i Appeal Headed for Supreme Court Microsoft will get a chance to make its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, appealing the earlier patent infringement decision it lost to i4i.
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.
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InternetNews December 31, 2010 Sean Michael Kerner	Notable Tech Law Suits of 2010 The lawyers were busy last year, with a raft of corporate lawsuits flying around the tech industry. Perhaps the most common area of dispute in the tech industry concerns allegations of patent infringement and other intellectual property transgressions, though those are hardly the only challenges.
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InternetNews October 12, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Linux Providers Hit With IP Suit First patent lawsuit against Linux charges Novell and Red Hat with infringement.
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.
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InternetNews March 30, 2005 Tim Gray	EBay Wins Patent Ruling If the action is upheld it would invalidate the MercExchange patent that led to a $25 million judgment against eBay over the "Buy It Now" feature.
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Chemistry World September 14, 2007 Peter Mitchell	European Patents Set to Get Cheaper Patents valid across many European countries will soon be much easier and cheaper to register, with the coming into force of the so-called London Agreement.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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