Patents

The Opensource.com Patents article collection examines the intersection between open source and patents, patent troll topics, and patent-related legal issues.

Why Oil States is good for open source

A victory for technology companies and innovators who face threats of patent litigation from entities that abuse the system.

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Don't over-React to the Facebook patents license

Criticisms of Apache's decision to ban Facebook's BSD+ Patents license from Apache Foundation projects don't survive the scrutiny of reason.

Search this database for inactive patents that are now in the public domain

In the U.S. patent system, if maintenance fees are not paid, an issued patent goes into the public domain. Find out how to search the database.

EFF asks universities not to sell to patent trolls

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international non-profit digital rights group, is reaching out to universities and their communities to combat patent trolls…

If we must have software patents, at least use the same rules

Oracle v. Google: What it means for software developers

On May 26, 2016, the jury in the well-publicized Oracle v. Google trial returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Google, essentially concluding that the copyright fair use…

Ginormous losses from NPE software patent lawsuits

Hacking the patent system: Open source and patents

Recently, I caught up with Daniel Nazer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to pose a few questions relating to software patents. Daniel is a staff attorney at EFF…

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