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In re Bilski -- Red Hat files amicus brief saying software patents are a brake on innovation

By Pamela Jones et al.

If you've been reading News Picks, you may have noticed that both the ACLU and Red Hat have filed amicus briefs in a patent case, In re Bilski and Warsaw. I thought you might like to understand what is going on, as best as I can explain it. Here's the ACLU brief [PDF]. Red Hat's announcement indicates that it is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to consider something dear to your hearts, whether or not, or to what degree, patents should be allowed on software, and its brief explains to the court the damage that software patents are doing to Open Source software. Here's the brief [PDF].

Full post as published by Groklaw on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).