[Fsfe-ie] Previous two emails on software patents.

[Joseph Kiniry]

I sent them to the wrong list (ILUG).  Apologies.

Joe

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Something from today:

   Patenting the Internet
   by George H. Pike
   in Information Today, Inc.
   http://www.infotoday.com/IT/apr05/pike.shtml

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 From 25 April:

> In today's ACM TechNews another article was highlighted:
>
> Intellectual-Property Panel Tackles the Issue of Patents
> By Darryl K. Taft
> April 22, 2005
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1788933,00.asp
>
> It is nice to see some mention of anti-patent coverage in a rag like  
> eweek. :)
>
> Joe

and

> Hi all,
>
> I noticed the following articles from the CYBERLAW mailing list  
> (Academic discussion of the law relating to the Internet  
> <CYBERLAW at LISTSERV.HEANET.IE>) that might be of interest to list  
> members.
>
>
> "Computer Programming and the Automation of Invention: A Case for  
> Software Patent Reform"
> by Robert Plotkin
> (2003) 7 UCLA Journal of Law and Technology
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=503822
>
> "Designing Optimal Software Patents"
> by Dan L Burk and Mark A Lemley
> in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN FRONTIER INDUSTRIES: OFTWARE AND  
> BIOTECHNOLOGY, Robert Hahn, ed., 2005
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=692044
>
> "The Future of the Casebook: An Argument for an Open-Source Approach"
> by Matthew T. Bodie
> Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-02 (March 2005)
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=691985
>
> Patents, innovation
> EPO Press Release April 18
> http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/headlines/news/ 
> article_05_04_18_en.html