Patent Infringement

EDUCAUSE has posted a new Patents resource page. The page features resources such as information about copyright lobby groups, government policy surrounding open source software, and working with patents in the higher education arena.

The UK high court has thrown out a pure-software patent and directly criticised the doctrine and approach of the European Patent Office. It is not clear whether this is going to have any medium- or long-term significance, since this looks like the kind of ruling that is likely to no longer apply once the law is changed, and several parties in the UK and EU seem pretty keen to change the patent law as it applies to software.

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