Patents

Patents have increasingly become an issue in the information age as patents are granted in more and more areas which formerly were held to be "unpatentable", such as software, ideas, and knowledge of causal relationships.

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News and Editorials

• 2006-09-12 How Hartmut Pilch, Avid Computer Geek, Bested Microsoft by Mary Jacoby: "Foe of Software Patents, He Prevailed With Europe; Next, a Court Battle" (will require login after 7 days)
• 2006-09-08 No Happy Ending for Net Movie Renters (slashdot): Netflix sues Blockbuster for stealing the concept of renting movies over the Internet
• 2006-08-18 Court order to shut down DISH DVRs blocked: video time-shifting is apparently patented?
• 2006-03-19 This Essay Breaks the Law by Michael Crichton (slashdot)
• 2005-10-26 Patents Kill by Annalee Newitz, AlterNet

Quotes

• Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas
• Ben Franklin on Patents, with commentary by Scott Carpenter