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  • Lawyers fight Aust moves to stall e-commerce patent

    The company trying to secure an e-commerce patent that could cost Australian businesses millions of dollars has instructed its lawyers to fight the latest move by an Australian tech executive to try to overturn its application.

  • IBM calls for patent reform

    IBM has called for tighter regulation of patents and a review of intellectual property ownership issues in collaborative software development.

  • US patent reforms inches forward

    The US Senate has taken a small step towards overhauling the patent system in a way that would benefit hi-tech companies like Microsoft

  • Munich Linux migration delayed by 'PR stunt'

    Software patent campaigner Florian Mueller revealed this week that the City of Munich's decision to stall its Linux migration, was the result of a PR stunt by anti-patent campaigners.

  • Gates gonged as OSS community fights patent war

    The shadow cast over open source development by patent regime reform and associated litigation is growing ever longer.

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    Do you need open-source legal protection any more than you need meteor insurance? Don't dismiss the idea.

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  • What's in Quicktime's future?

    Thanks to QuickTime's promised MPEG-4 compression technology, movie previews now look absolutely stellar. But don't get used to seeing the pretty pictures.

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