My TweetsIt appears that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) — the court having exclusive jurisdiction over appeals in patent infringement cases here in the U.S. — is going to consider this very question in the near future. Last week the CAFC agreed to grant a relatively rare en banc review [...]
Filed under: Court Decision, Infringement, Intellectual Property, Patent Reform, Patents, Trends | Tagged: Bilski, business method patent, CAFC, en banc, Gajarsa, software patent | 2 Comments »
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced that it has filed two additional lawsuits on behalf of its clients Erik Andersen and Rob Landley (the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source utility) alleging copyright infringement based on a violation of version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The defendants in [...]
Filed under: Alert, Busybox, Compliance, Erik Andersen, GPL, Infringement, Law, Monsoon Multimedia, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: High-Gain Antennas, Xterasys Corporation | 2 Comments »
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was fortunate enough to attend and present at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) earlier this week in Portland, Oregon. As advertised, the conference was excellent. Attendees included representatives from a number of government agencies, both here in the US as well as from numerous [...]
Filed under: GOSCON, Infringement, Linux, Linux Foundation, Open Source, Patents, Presentations and Panels, Standards, Zemlin | Leave a Comment »
