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The National Public Meeting on Software Patents Venue 2nd Floor, Ecumenical Resource Centre, United Theological College, Millers Road, Benson Town (Behind Cantonment Railway Station) Bangalore–560046 Time 10:00–17:00 Saturday, October 4, 2008 Description Software Patents in India occupy a contentious and indeterminate legal space. While recent amendments to the Patent Act have sought to bring our law in conformity with WTO-mandated standards, these amendments have shied from pronouncing conclusively on the patentability of Software. The result is an equivocation in the law which is being wrestled aggressively and effectively by corporate interests, patent attorneys and the Patent Office in favour of granting Software Patents. Unheard, and so unrepresented in this powerful triad are the interests of millions of citizen-consumers who are either presumed too ignorant to be credited with a view on the issue, or are presumed to be irrelevant to the determination of issues which are seen as purely "business" matters(as opposed to "citizen" matters). Software is everywhere you look (and many places you never think of looking). With the explosion of low-cost computing devices (think mobile phones and iPods), Software has leaked out of its traditional home—the PC—and begun infiltrating various aspects of our lives. From traffic signals to toilet commodes in some countries, refrigerators to railway tickets, vacuum cleaners and electronic voting ... Source: ayaz.wordpress.com --- 8 days ago
This post on Software Patents and copyrights and everything else in between is a means of letting off steam caused by reading news that Apple is taking ideas from commercial softwares being actively sold and trying to get Patents for those ideas posing as concepts of their own. Yes: Ideas and concepts Apple has not [...] ... Source: lab16.wordpress.com --- 6 days ago
The Patent Problem Today is the World Day to Stop Software Patents. Software Patents attempt to offer protection to a company for particular computer programs. One common example is the Amazon One-Click Shopping Patent. Amazon attempted to patent their one-click shopping method. Doing so makes any other online store using one-click shopping a patent violator and [...] ... Source: www.midgard-project.org --- 9 days ago
This writing is the second one in the series based on the course of sw-legistlation that I'm taking at school. After copyrights the most natural path to continue exploring the wonders of legistlation is naturally Patents. Patents tend to raise opinions since it has been proven that most cases Patents in Software fields are just not working as intended. Most of the problems come from USA and the threat that similar conventions are applied someday in EU. It seems that Patents are applied just in case for almost everything. When this is combined to the fact that the financing of the patent agency is based on the amount of Patents they approve we'll have some interesting problems. Also the personnel that make the decisions are not often qualified to the field that the patent addresses. What is the result then. In the US only the best Patents are taken to the court. And about 70% of the Patents are nullified there. What is the big picture then? It has been said that about 10% of the Patents are truly valid. What is the difference between the Europe and US? Well in Europe patent is given "first to file" basis and in the US it is "first to invent". You can tell what that means. I personally consider Patents as an arsenal of business cold war. Companies have plenty of Patents for a fear factor. This leads to interesting cross licensing but also in the telecommunication field Patents are used to regulate margets so that new and smaller players ... Source: www.innoq.com --- 8 days ago
"A Software patent is a right to litigate against authors of Software granted to an applicant as a reward for the disclosure of hot air." ... Source: joedrumgoole.com --- 8 days ago
Today is No Software Patents Patents day. I go both ways on Software Patents. As a business owner I like the idea of asserting an “unfair advantage” over my competitors by coming up with some super duper patented idea that completely locks in my market. As a Software engineer I grow concerned at the land [...] ... Source: www.automatinginvention.com --- 2 days ago
"A global coalition of more than 80 Software companies, associations, and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the 'World Day Against Software Patents.'" What members of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit AutomatingInvention.com for full links and other content. ]] ... Source: www.out-law.com --- 5 days ago
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rifles only writes "A German techie has found a remarkably simple way to discern some of the content of encrypted volumes containing images. The encrypted images don't reveal themselves totally, but in many cases do let an attacker see the outline of a high-contrast image. The attack works regardless of the encryption algorithm used (the widely-used AES for instance), and affects all utilities that use single symmetric keys. More significant to police around the world struggling with criminal and terrorist use of encryption, the attack also breaks the ability of users to 'hide' separate encrypted volumes inside already encrypted volumes, whose existence can now for the first time now be revealed." The discoverer of this attack works for a company making full-disk encryption Software; their product, TurboCrypt, has already been enhanced to defeat the attack. Other on-the-fly encryption products will probably be similarly enhanced, as the discoverer asserts: "To our knowledge is the described method free of Patents and the author can confirm that he hasn't applied for protection." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ... Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 5 days ago
Apple extended an olive branch to the iPhone developer community by allowing a non-disclosure agreement on released iPhone Software to expire. (Techmeme) Here's the text of Apple's note on its developer's site: To Our Developers:We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone Software. We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of Patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others. However,... ...
Source: blogs.inquirer.net --- 5 days ago
DUE to pressures from developers, Apple has finally decided to drop the non-disclosure agreements that Software developers for the iPhone are required to sign, a report from Agence France-Presse said. Excerpt: WASHINGTON — Apple said Wednesday that it was dropping a controversial non-disclosure agreement that Software developers who wanted to create applications for the iPhone mobile telephone had been forced to sign. The non-disclosure agreement, or NDA, prevented Software developers seeking to take part in the iPhone Developer Program from discussing their work, even with colleagues. Apple’s move to drop the NDA came just days after Internet search giant Google jumped into the mobile telephone market with a handset powered by Google’s open-source Android Software. The ability of outside developers to freely write applications for the phone, the T-Mobile G1, which Google developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile, is seen as a major selling point by Google and its partners. Also from the Apple website : We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of Patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others. However, the NDA has created too much of a burde ...
Source: www.techdirt.com --- 6 days ago
Earlier this year, Alex Iskold wrote up a piece on why the economics of "free" was somehow bad . That didn't make much sense and we tried to explain why . Now he's written another article trying to explain why the patent system is in crisis , and it seems equally as confused. We absolutely agree that the patent system has some serious, serious problems -- but it's not for the reasons Iskold describes. First, he claims that the patent system used to work -- when historical evidence suggests otherwise. Almost every look at the patent system over history has found little to no evidence that it increased innovation. From Fritz Machlup to Eric Schiff to the more recent research of Scherer and Weisburst and others have consistently found little evidence that Patents increase innovation. Iskold, oddly, suggests that the reason why we're seeing open source rise up and an open sharing of ideas proliferate is somehow because of the patent system's failures (despite the fact that both became more prevalent and common long before Software was considered patentable), and warns that this is somehow dangerous, because: "What happens when a big company copies a startup? What happens when dozens of startups copy each other?" Of course, that's what most people consider competition, and we tend to think it's a good thing in a capitalist society. It's what actually drives innovation, as pretty much all of economic history has shown. If someone copie ... Source: www.ilounge.com --- 5 days ago
Apple has announced that it will drop the portion of its non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone Software. A statement posted to the company’s iPhone developer website reads, “We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of Patents on iPhone technology,… ... Source: www.tivocommunity.com --- 5 minutes ago
http://www.betanews.com/article/Down_for_the_count_Dish_to_pay_TiVo_104_million/1223342939 ---Quote--- The nation's highest court today shut the door on EchoStar's and Dish Network's petitions for a final appeal of their patent infringement case. Now all they can hope is for mercy from TiVo, if they are to continue producing DVRs in the US. After the US Supreme Court declined this afternoon to hear the appeal of Dish Network and its former parent EchoStar in a long-running patent infringement case, EchoStar decided it had no other option: It's paying TiVo $104 million, in hopes that this will settle the companies' disputes over whether Dish Network Software infringed on TiVo Patents. "Because of the Supreme Court's decision, we will pay TiVo approximately $104 million (the amount the jury awarded in 2006 plus interest)," reads EchoStar's statement from earlier today. "The money is in an escrow account and will be released to TiVo in the next few days." When this case began, EchoStar was Dish Network's parent company; now, it's merely a part-owner and business partner. In its public statement, EchoStar said it has already implemented a "Software workaround" for the "Time Warp" functionality which TiVo said infringed on its Patents. Though some are classifying the $104 million payment as a settlement, TiVo's last statement on the matter today -- issued about a half-hour before EchoStar's -- made it clear that TiVo would continue to seek ...
Source: www.observer.com --- 5 days ago
Hooray! Apple has lifted their gag on iPhone apps developers! We told you that the company's mysterious non-disclosure agreement was frustrating third-party developers of cool applications for the gadget, banning them from discussing the finer points of their coding with each other. But today, on their Developer Connection site , Apple explained why they put the NDA in place and why they are removing it: We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of Patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others. However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released Software. read more » ... Source: lxer.com --- 2 days ago
It emerged in a recent conversation that the Linux Foundation (LF) is not quite so isolated from the issue Software Patents. In fact, OIN seems somewhat close to this âumbrellaâ establishment, which Jim Zemlin mentioned in his âletterâ published by BusinessWeek last year. ... Find more results for Software Patents on RSSMicro.com |
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After much pressure, Apple has decided that they have been stupid for a long enough time and has dropped their much much-criticized Non Disclosure Agreement from released iPhone Software. According to the company, the NDA was an unnecessary obstacle for developers: To our developers We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone Software. We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of Patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others. However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released Software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released Software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased Software and features will remain under NDA until they are released. Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter. Maybe the move was prompted by certain little green robot openness but, most likely, the reason has been the iPhone developer outcry . Still, they haven't dropped their stupid gag order about iPhone App store's rejections, but who ca ...
Apple has dropped the NDA covering the iPhone SDK. Developers will now be able to discuss how they develop for the iPhone. This was one of the biggest complaints developers (and technical publishers) had about developing for the platform. Apple posted the following message . We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone Software. We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of Patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others. However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released Software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released Software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased Software and features will remain under NDA until they are released. Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter. This is great news. I look forward to the many online tutorials, events (like our own iPhoneLive ) and books (like the Prag's ) that will bloom. I am sure that the developer excitement around open-source and not-NDA'd Android was a factor in the ...
In what may be the final note on a series of lawsuits that have been dragging its way through the courts since 2003, a U.S. Appeals court has ruled (PDF) that Microsoft doesn't have to pay a $1.5 billion judgement levied against it because it didn't actually violate MP3 Patents in its Windows Media Player Software. "We affirm the district court's dismissal of the infringement claims," the court wrote in its ruling, finding the Microsoft did not infringe on a patent now owned by Alcatel, and that the Redmond company had adequately covered its based by paying $16 million to Germany's Fraunhofer Gesellshaft to MP3 technology. The original suit, or Read | Permalink | Linking Blogs ...
This comes out of nowhere really. The non-disclosure agreement regarding the development of iPhone applications with the iPhone SDK is out for good. Apple has dropped it and sent out an official statement: To Our Developers We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone Software. We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of Patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others. However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released Software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released Software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased Software and features will remain under NDA until they are released. Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter. By raise of hands, how many of you guys were expecting this move? Are we going to expect an influx of new applications to be soon released for the iPhone? Related Posts 60 Million App Store Downloads Worth $30 Million We could check out the iPhone 3G after a month of existence without wonderi ...