America's love affair with patent litigation has moved to another level, with a well-known patent expert arguing movies and movie scripts should be patentable.
Google has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) which will see it agree to cross-license open- source-related patents to other members free of charge.
European authorities have failed to close loopholes in legislation that will allow pure software to be patented. A key vote on the directive on the software patent directive has not only left loopholes in the legislation intact but may have even widened them, say campaigners
By withdrawing its support for the EU directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, the Polish government may prevent software patenting being introduced in Europe.
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to reject the directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventions.
Friends, industry watchers, readers; I come not to bag Telstra, but to praise it. The evil that telcos do often lives on after their Investors Days, while the good is often lost during interminable speeches.
Coming off a good quarter for Symantec's consumer businesses, CEO John Thompson warns against viewing Windows Vista as a solution to security woes.
An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
As the two giants tussle for domination of online advertising dollars, it's increasingly clear that this tug-of-war is really a test of each company's corporate culture.
Researchers claims to have developed software that can repair a database that has been attacked, even as it continues to process transactions.
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