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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Red Hat Asks Federal Court To Limit Patents On Software

Red Hat Asks Federal Court To Limit Patents On Software
By Rob Tiller, Vice President and Assistant... ... written in good faith could be deemed to infringe an existing software patent. It's impossible to rule out this possibility, because there are now more than 200000 software patents, and those patents cannot be efficiently searched. ...
By T. Colin Dodd Software patents were barely recognized when open source began, and so the hope of obtaining a patent did not motivate the first developers. Those pioneers were generally opposed to software patents. The open, collaborative activity at ...
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA Developers face the risk that the original code they have written in good faith could be deemed to infringe an existing software patent. ...
By admin ... written in good faith could be deemed to infringe an existing software patent. It's impossible to rule out this possibility, because there are now more than 200,000 software patents, and those patents cannot be efficiently searched. ...
It appears that Red Hat Inc. is now working diligently to limit or remove software patents via the federal courts. I think this is a great effort and we support them on their work! Software patents are a blight on the tech industry and ...
Red Hat has filed a friend of the court brief with the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals complaining that the patent system is a hindrance to leash on them. ...

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