The Opensource.com Patents article collection examines the intersection between open source and patents, patent troll topics, and patent-related legal issues.
Like many, I was surprised-but-not-really when Pamela Jones announced that she would be retiring original content on the legal analysis site that grew to fame within and…
Gene Quinn's recent post titled " What Happened to the Obama Open Source Initiative?" criticizes, in turns, open source software, Scott McNealy, the Obama administration, and…
In my March 2 post on patent reform , I noted that many of the provisions offered in prior versions of patent reform bills were removed from the pending bill. On March 8, the…
The threat from software patent trolls arises not from an invisible distant origin, but actually from within open source communities. So that's the best place to eradicate it…
Yesterday a patent reform bill passed in the Senate, but the sound and fury don't seem to signify much. The legislation as it evolved has shed most of the features that could…
A case now before the Supreme Court could lower the threat level created by bad patents in a meaningful way. The issue before the Court is whether to change the burden of…
