Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Ah yes, let's look at the US Patent Office which seems
happy to grant ridiculous, and often seemingly speculative, patent
applications for IT concepts.
There have even been successful patent applications for ‘rights for the
transfer of e-mails with attachments’ and even the ‘download of a
device driver from the Internet.’
Yet despite these permissive patent office rulings, no US legislator
has ever actually approved the practise. Although Congress and Senate,
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court are
all highly susceptible to lobbying from patent industries and patent
professionals.
Now the Stop Software Patents campaign,
a coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and
developers, has declared that there should be a World Day Against
Software Patents to highlight the ongoing problems.
The World Day Against Software Patents will also "provide volunteers
with the opportunity to express the growing concerns of users,
businesses and developers" the organisers say, adding that they "expect
24 hours of activities across the globe."
This will include volunteers gathering in front of patent offices to
inform the general public of the problems underlying software patenting
as well as the issuing of a global petition demanding that software
patents worldwide should cease.
Benjamin Henrion, initiator of the StopSoftwarePatents coalition
effort, tells us that the aim behind StopSoftwarePatents is to gather a
worldwide coalition of businesses and civil society in order to get
laws which clearly exempt software from patentable subject matter.
"This is the best solution for getting rid of patent trolls and
uncontrollable legal risks generated by software patents. The day the
software industry forms a clear front against software patents will be
the beginning of the end for the patent trolls." Henrion insists.
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