Copyright Law

Clay Pigeon
"September 24 Is World Day Against Software Patents," booms Stop Software Patents. Benjamin Henrion, initiator of the StopSoftwarePatents coalition effort, explains "The aim behind StopSoftwarePatents is to gather a worldwide coalition of businesses and civil society in order to get laws which clearly exempt software from patentable subject matter...

UK software patent law uncertainty continues
The uncertainty over whether computer software is patentable in the UK continues, following a decision by the High Court last week which the UK Intellectual Property Office has announced it will appeal...

Happy Anti-Software Patent Day
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents".According to Benjamin Henrion, initiator of the StopSoftwarePatents coalition effort,The aim behind StopSoftwarePatents is to gather a worldwide coalition of businesses and civil society in order to get laws which clearly exempt software from patentable subject matter...

"End Software Patents" Launches With Website and Report
Coming in fashionably late to the "great patent reform debate", this organization (covered previously here) "will initially focus on two approaches: 1) assisting corporations that choose to challenge software patents in the courts and at the U...

Judge Plager: Regrets "Unintended Consequences" of State Street
Recently, CAFC Senior Judge Jay Plager spoke at a symposium at George Mason University, where he called for a "rethinking" of several aspects of patent law by returning to its origins in property law...

The Death of Google's Patents
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 patent claims to such...

Unlicensed Software
NovaStar Mortgage Inc. pays Business Software Alliance $112,000 settlement for using unlicensed copies of computer programs.

VA Medical Centers
Admit to Drug Overdoses, Software Glitches

Windows Software
Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order.

Sales to Iran
Software company to pay $132,791 settlement in conspiracy lawsuit.

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.