Software Patents
1968-06-12
Computer program patent [PDF]
1968-10-23 Computer
software unpatentable [PDF]
1968-11-23 Computer
patent backed by court [PDF]
1968-12-13 Patent
office requests rehearing on 'software' [PDF]
1968-12-29 Fighter
for computer-program patents [PDF]
1969-03-01
U.S. patent court to hear software issue [PDF]
1969-08-16 Computer
programs are held patentable [PDF]
1969-10-09 Patents
office reversing stand [PDF]
1972-11-21 High court denies computer patent for programming [PDF]
1975-05-13 Supreme Court will consider case on computer system patent [PDF]
1978-06-28 Software patent issue is murky [PDF]
1980-01-16 Diamond
v. Diehr. Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari
1980-03-17 Diamond
v. Diehr. Supreme Court Of The United States
1980-05-30 Diamond
v. Diehr. Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari
1980-06-10 Diamond
v. Diehr. Brief For The Petitioner
1980-07-28 Diamond
v. Diehr. Brief Amicus Curiae American Patent Law Association LAW
1980-08-12 Diamond
v. Diehr. Brief Amicus Curiae Chevron Research Company
1980-10-xx Diamond v.
Diehr. Respondents' Brief On The Merits
1980-10-03 Diamond
v. Diehr. Reply Memorandum For The Petitioner
1980-10-06 High
Court is facing key business issues [PDF]
1980-10-14 Diamond
v. Diehr. Oral Transcript
1980-10-20 Software
-No patents -- but still protected
1981-03-03 Diamond
v. Diehr. Supreme Court of the United States
1981-03-04 Supreme
Court Backs Patent in Computer Process
1989-04-24 Patent
Opens Window To Software Confusion
1989-06-19 Little
Quarterdeck Throws Its Weight Around
1989-11-10 Announcing the League for Programming Freedom More
1990-06-19
The Software
Patent Crisis
1990-07-26
Against Software
Patents [PDF]
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[PDF]
1990-09-17
Programming Freedom
At Risk
1990-11-13
Patents and boycott
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1991-02-28
Against Software
Patents [PDF]
1991-07-08 Your chance
of the year to change software patent law
1991-07-13
Easy way to reply
to PTO request for comments
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1991-07-17 Bill Gates Memo - "...our strategy for the 90's is Windows..."
- See document
1991-09-xx
Why Patents
Are Bad for Software [PDF]
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1991-10-02 Examples
of software patent benefit sought
1992-01-xx
Programming Freedom
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1992-01-18 Personal
Use
1992-02-20 Patents
and their form of expression
1992-05-29 The Great
Software Patent Debate
1992-06-xx Debunking
the Software Patent Myths [PDF]
1992-06-04 Interesting
article
1992-09-01
Photo-CD
1993-01-15
Protect Your
Freedom to Write Programs [PDF]
1993-03-xx
Programming Freedom
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1993-06-xx
Oracle Corporation
Patent Policy
1993-07-05
A sad result
1993-09-05 Bay Area
software patents by companies and law firms
1993-09-09
PhotoCD Access
1993-12-23 PTO holding
software patent public hearings
1994-01-06
Comments on Patent
Protection
1994-01-27 Use
of the Patent System to Protect Software [PDF]
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1994-01-31
Opinion on Software
Patents
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1994-02-24
Reverse-engineering
1994-03-17
IPX compliancy
1994-04-26
Novell is trying to sell
a derivative of Linux
1994-06-13
Patented material,
FTP, U.S.
1994-07-xx
Programming Freedom
1994-07-25 Letter
to President Clinton regarding proposed patent law changes
1994-10-28 Need a
better screen squisher
1995-01-06 Proposed
Mechanism to Establish LZ-free Image Format in 5 days
1995-01-13 LPF Statement
on the GIF controversy
1995-01-24 CERT advisory
-- details
1995-02-xx
Programming Freedom
1995-08-29
Developing Wine
1996-04-10 Berkeley
Round Table on Software Innovation
1996-08-07 AWE32 Programming
Info
1996-09-06
Why Software
Should Not Have Owners
1996-10-xx
The Politics of
Freedom
1996-11-12 Stronghold's
Apache SSL Server: Is it worth it?
1997-01-28 Experience
with THAWTE as Apache CA
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1997-04-13
Why there are
no GIF files on GNU web pages
1997-07-20 I2O specs
available
1997-08-04 Webserver
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1998-06-20 Recent Lucent-Cisco patent suit
1999-04-23 The
Problem With Patents
1999-11-03 Patent
1999-12-23
Saving Europe
from Software Patents
2000-12-29 Sequential innovation, patents and imitation [PDF]
2002-05-24 patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP
2003-09-21
Open Letter on Software
Patents from Linux developers
2003-11-04
Public Patent Foundation
Begins Operations
2003-12-03 Microsoft opens technology to more licensing - See
document
2003-12-09
Microsoft FAT patents
'could be re-opened
2004-04-15
PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft
Patent to Protect Competition
2004-04-15
Alan Cox talks about
patents [WMA]
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2004-05-24
The Danger of
Software Patents [YouTube]
2004-06-10
Microsoft Patent to be
Reexamined at PUBPAT's Request
2004-07-12
PUBPAT Announces Microsoft
Patent Watch
2004-08-02 Linux
Patent Review Results Announced [PDF]
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2004-08-02 Mitigating
Linux Patent Risk [PDF]
2004-09-30
At PUBPAT's Request,
Patent Office Rejects FAT Patent
2005-05-18
The Danger of
Software Patents
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[YouTube]
2005-10-05
Microsoft's Linux-related
patents rejected
2006-01-10 Microsoft's file system patent upheld
2007-05-14 Microsoft takes on the free world