Thanks to Saurabh’s mail on ILUGD, found out about this nice essay by Paul Graham on software patents. Not being much of a lawyer or an expert on these things, but nevertheless having a conviction that software patents are evil, I have dared to comment on parts of this essay. Of course, you ar...

Patent law is confusing. I’ve filed for and received a couple patents filed under the names of companies I’ve worked for in the past, and I’m still not sure exactly how that worked.  I know I wrote up a pretty complex description of the process (which was a combination of hardware...

By John F. Duffy * [PDF Version (42 KB)]             The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering p...

Richard Morris recently took some time out to interview the great Linus Torvalds, the founder and creator of our favorite operating system, Linux. The interview is very well put together with both great questions and answers. Here are two of my favorite Q & A’s with Linus: RM: ‘Do yo...

The following is excerpted from Thomas Claburn's February 6, 2008 article at InformationWeek: Barracuda Networks, a maker of e-mail and Web security hardware, has sent out a distress call to the open source community to save it from patent litigation at the hands of Trend Micro, a competing security...

The following is excerpted from Thomas Claburn's February 6, 2008 article at InformationWeek: Barracuda Networks, a maker of e-mail and Web security hardware, has sent out a distress call to the open source community to save it from patent litigation at the hands of Trend Micro, a competing security...