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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 19th of April 2018 11:33:30 AM Filed under
- The Patent Microcosm, Patent Trolls and Their Pressure Groups Incite a USPTO Director Against the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Section 101/Alice
- Microsoft’s Lobbying for FRAND Pays Off as Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Conversant (Formerly MOSAID) Goes After Android OEMs in Europe
- To Understand Why People Say That Lawyers are Liars Look No Further Than Misleading Promotion of Software Patents
- When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored ‘Reports’ and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
- The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
- Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”
- The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
- For Samsung and Apple the Biggest Threat Has Become Patent Trolls and Aggressors in China and the Eastern District of Texas, Not Each Other
- The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
- SCOTUS on WesternGeco v Ion Geophysical Almost Done; Will Oil States Decision Affirm the PTAB’s Quality Assurance (IPRs) Soon?
- Links 18/4/2018: New Fedora 27 ISOs, Nextcloud Wins German Government Contract
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 17th of April 2018 04:34:39 PM Filed under
- The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It’s the Management’s Fault
- The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
- With Liars Like These…
- IAM, Patently-O and Watchtroll (the Patent Trolls’ Lobby) Try to Stop Patent Oppositions/Petitions (PTAB)
- The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Ending Software Patents One Patent at a Time
- Academics and Think Tanks for Patent Maximalism
- Links 17/4/2018: Linux 5.x Plans and Microsoft’s ‘Embrace’
- Links 16/4/2018: Linux 4.17 RC 1, Mesa 18.0.1 RC, GNOME 3.28.1
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LG’s Linux-based webOS Goes Open Source, Again!
Submitted by itsfoss on Tuesday 17th of April 2018 11:48:01 AM Filed under
One of the earliest mobile operating systems, Palm OS is still alive in the form of webOS. It’s current owner LG is making it open source, once again.
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 14th of April 2018 11:42:50 PM Filed under
- Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
- Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
- The ‘Blockchaining’ of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
- Links 14/4/2018: Wine 3.6, KDE Elisa 0.1
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 13th of April 2018 11:16:16 PM Filed under
- East Asia Should Have Adopted the Patent Strategy of South Asia, Notably India
- Samsung is the ‘New IBM’, Sans the Trolling With Patents
- David Barcelou May or May Not be a Patent Troll, But He is Certainly a SLAPPing Bully and Watchtroll is Fine With It
- The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
- Patent Trolls in the United States Show the Importance of Stopping Software Patents (Trolls’ Favourite) Worldwide
- USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks
- Links 11/4/2018: Linux 3.18.104, ReactOS 0.4.8 Release
- Links 12/4/2018: Stable New Kernels, Neptune 5.1
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 11th of April 2018 09:18:52 AM Filed under
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 10th of April 2018 10:41:59 AM Filed under
- EPO in ‘Low Profile’ Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India’s Oil Drilling/Miners
- Microsoft’s Extortion Racket Against GNU/Linux Carries on, Both Directly and Indirectly (via Patent Trolls)
- IAM Churning Out Support for the Software Patents and HEVC Lobby
- Links 9/4/2018: Linux 4.16.1, phpMyAdmin 4.8.0, GNU Mcron 1.1.1
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Albanian Open Source Conference OSCAL’18 is Now Open For Registration
Submitted by itsfoss on Monday 9th of April 2018 12:30:09 PM Filed under
Albania’s premier open source event OSCAL will be held on19-20 May 2018 in Tirana. Registration for the event is now open.
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 9th of April 2018 07:30:13 AM Filed under
- In Just a Few Years China Became the Eastern District of Texas
- The ‘Sisvelisation’ of Europe, With or Without the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
- PTAB and the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Still Rejecting and Removing Dubious Patents
- Hype Waves Exploited by the Software Patents Lobby: Blockchain, Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Wearables
- The Patent Litigation Lobby — by Cherry-Picking Court Decisions — Explores Ways to Work Around 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Patent Software
- IAM Encourages Patent Aggression, CCIA Highlights Cost of Being Accused of Infringement, Professor Tun-Jen Chiang Explores Free Speech Aspects of Patents
- Links 8/4/2018: KDE Applications 18.04 Release Candidate, Features Approval For Fedora 29
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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 7th of April 2018 07:51:47 AM Filed under
- Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
- Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
- Microsoft — Like BlackBerry — is Nowadays a Patent Extortion Company, So Ignore the ‘Shared Innovation Initiative’ Nonsense
- The Anti-PTAB Brigade is Willing to Embrace Radical Elements Just to Get Its Way
- Links 6/4/2018: New Fedora ISO, Next Ubuntu Reaches Final Beta
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