items tagged with Patents
Microsoft-Novell deal: three years of poor-quality spin
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-10 20:09:38
Three years have gone by since Novell sold out the entire free and open source software community by signing a patent indemnification deal with Microsoft.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-10 20:09:38
Three years have gone by since Novell sold out the entire free and open source software community by signing a patent indemnification deal with Microsoft.
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Mono and Samba: smell the difference, says Allison
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-15 21:23:37
Samba and Mono differ in the ways the two projects have chosen to deal with software patents in the implementation, according to renowned Samba developer Jeremy Allison.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-15 21:23:37
Samba and Mono differ in the ways the two projects have chosen to deal with software patents in the implementation, according to renowned Samba developer Jeremy Allison.
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CSIRO patent windfall as Aussie inventiveness honoured
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-10-14 02:02:34
Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, has gained $200 million in extra revenue from a successful legal challenge to the use of its patented wireless technology that is now used in more than 800 million devices around the world.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-10-14 02:02:34
Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, has gained $200 million in extra revenue from a successful legal challenge to the use of its patented wireless technology that is now used in more than 800 million devices around the world.
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De Icaza makes light of Microsoft bid to sell anti-Linux patents
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-08 20:56:08
Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-08 20:56:08
Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
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Eolas sues technology and retail giants
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-10-06 18:20:26
A company claiming a patent on the use of AJAX and other technologies to put interactive applications into web pages is suing Adobe, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Google, Yahoo! and other well-known companies for infringement.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-10-06 18:20:26
A company claiming a patent on the use of AJAX and other technologies to put interactive applications into web pages is suing Adobe, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Google, Yahoo! and other well-known companies for infringement.
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Runge secures system patent rights
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-10-04 21:35:45
Mining technology services company, Runge, has secured the patent rights to the methodology of the overall framework - ‘method and system of integrated mine planning’ - for its enterprise solution, Mining Dynamics, which it says has been proven to improve predictability of mining operations that have a high degree of dynamic variability.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-10-04 21:35:45
Mining technology services company, Runge, has secured the patent rights to the methodology of the overall framework - ‘method and system of integrated mine planning’ - for its enterprise solution, Mining Dynamics, which it says has been proven to improve predictability of mining operations that have a high degree of dynamic variability.
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What has wound up Trevor Bayliss?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2009-09-03 08:00:50
Trevor Bayliss is perhaps most famous for inventing the wind-up radio, but now he's getting wound up about intellectual property rights.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2009-09-03 08:00:50
Trevor Bayliss is perhaps most famous for inventing the wind-up radio, but now he's getting wound up about intellectual property rights.
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Twitter suffers attack-by-patent
Written By: David Heath
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 00:11:28
Two days ago, Texas emergency alert notification provider TechRadium filed suit in the US District Court alleging that Twitter infringes on three patents.
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Written By: David Heath
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 00:11:28
Two days ago, Texas emergency alert notification provider TechRadium filed suit in the US District Court alleging that Twitter infringes on three patents.
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Microsoft wins patent for Lotus Notes emoticon idea
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-25 22:58:53
This week just past Microsoft was successfully granted a patent for "emotiflags" despite this idea being present in Lotus Notes years prior. Microsoft is even denying current Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s involvement.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-25 22:58:53
This week just past Microsoft was successfully granted a patent for "emotiflags" despite this idea being present in Lotus Notes years prior. Microsoft is even denying current Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s involvement.
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Buffalo buys into Microsoft patent pact
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-07-16 02:30:37
Microsoft has signed another patent pact with a supplier of Linux-based products. This time it is with the parent company of Buffalo.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-07-16 02:30:37
Microsoft has signed another patent pact with a supplier of Linux-based products. This time it is with the parent company of Buffalo.
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Microsoft Mono move means exactly nothing
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-12 20:21:02
When Britain was the superpower of the world, there was one tactic which its officials used, with great success, to manage its colonies - divide and rule.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-12 20:21:02
When Britain was the superpower of the world, there was one tactic which its officials used, with great success, to manage its colonies - divide and rule.
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Software patents loom in NZ
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-22 18:25:42
New Zealand is moving towards allowing unlimited software patents in the country. The first reading of the bill, which is now at the select committee stage, resulted in 107 votes for and only 14 against.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-22 18:25:42
New Zealand is moving towards allowing unlimited software patents in the country. The first reading of the bill, which is now at the select committee stage, resulted in 107 votes for and only 14 against.
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WiMAX vendors push pooled patent plan
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-22 18:25:09
The Open Patent Alliance (OPA)- set up a year ago to promote mobile WiMAX technology through a pooling of key patents - has issued a call for patents and has selected Via Licensing Corporation to facilitate the formation and administration of the pool on its behalf.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-22 18:25:09
The Open Patent Alliance (OPA)- set up a year ago to promote mobile WiMAX technology through a pooling of key patents - has issued a call for patents and has selected Via Licensing Corporation to facilitate the formation and administration of the pool on its behalf.
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Kapersky patent new technology to combat “sophisticated” malware
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-21 01:06:27
Kapersky has patented information security technology in the United States which the company claims will effectively detect and delete malicious software and remove any trace of its effects by running automatically generated scripts.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-21 01:06:27
Kapersky has patented information security technology in the United States which the company claims will effectively detect and delete malicious software and remove any trace of its effects by running automatically generated scripts.
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CSIRO to widen Wi-Fi patent net
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-16 00:45:57
Following a successful first wave of legal action to defend patents applicable to Wi-Fi networking, Australia's national science agency CSIRO is going after the rest of the industry.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-16 00:45:57
Following a successful first wave of legal action to defend patents applicable to Wi-Fi networking, Australia's national science agency CSIRO is going after the rest of the industry.
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The elusive, royalty-free patent licence for Mono
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-05-24 19:45:11
How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-05-24 19:45:11
How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?
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Three patents in TomTom case to be reviewed
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-28 18:09:35
The Open Invention Network has placed three of the patents which figured in the recent Microsoft-TomTom lawsuit for prior art review on the Post-Issue Peer-to-Patent website associated with the Linux Defenders portal.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-28 18:09:35
The Open Invention Network has placed three of the patents which figured in the recent Microsoft-TomTom lawsuit for prior art review on the Post-Issue Peer-to-Patent website associated with the Linux Defenders portal.
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CSIRO chickens finally home to roost with $1 billion eggs
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-23 08:33:22
Australia's CSIRO built the world's fourth computer CSIRAC in 1949 and, until this month when it forced 14 global tech giants to kneel and pay homage for the use of its WiFi technology, its knowledge and expertise have gone largely unheralded. That is no longer the case and a billion dollar - maybe multi-billion dollar pay day is around the corner.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-23 08:33:22
Australia's CSIRO built the world's fourth computer CSIRAC in 1949 and, until this month when it forced 14 global tech giants to kneel and pay homage for the use of its WiFi technology, its knowledge and expertise have gone largely unheralded. That is no longer the case and a billion dollar - maybe multi-billion dollar pay day is around the corner.
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Fujitsu settles with CSIRO over WLAN patent
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-13 05:17:57
Fujitsu has followed HP in reaching settlement with the CSIRO over its long running battle to extract licence fees for a key patent it holds covering the 802.11 WiFi wireless technology.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-13 05:17:57
Fujitsu has followed HP in reaching settlement with the CSIRO over its long running battle to extract licence fees for a key patent it holds covering the 802.11 WiFi wireless technology.
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Microsoft dealt AUD$545 million blow in anti-piracy patent case
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-09 01:22:15
In one of the biggest damages awards for software patent infringement in history, the world's largest software company Microsoft has been hit with a US$388 million fine. However, Microsoft is not expected to take the decision laying down.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-09 01:22:15
In one of the biggest damages awards for software patent infringement in history, the world's largest software company Microsoft has been hit with a US$388 million fine. However, Microsoft is not expected to take the decision laying down.
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