What’s the deal with copyright and 3D printing? by Michael Weinberg
Michael Weinberg’s follow-up whitepaper to “It will be awesome if they don’t screw it up.”
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Context-Free Patent Art
This is wonderfully random: illustrations used to illustrate patent applications but without the context.
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work | Epicenter | Wired.com
A superb scathing piece by Andy, who has a personal perspective on Yahoo’s massively dick move in deploying the patent nuclear option against Facebook.
MPEG LA’s AVC License Will Not Charge Royalties for Internet Video That Is Free to End Users Through Life of License | Business Wire
Well, well, well. It looks like h264 is not going to be torpedoing us with any submarine patents anytime soon ...but this only applies to end users, not browser makers. Sigh.
Daring Fireball: GIF, H.264, and Patents
A thoughtful piece by John Gruber on HTML5 video: yes, software patents are toxic to the web but perhaps H.264 isn't the worst offender.
SPARKLINES IN THE GRID - Patent Application 20090282325
Microsoft are trying to patent sparklines. Twunts.
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Impasse on HTML 5 video
The spectre of patents is hurting progress on the web.
Google, Microsoft, Apple sued over preview icons | Business Tech - CNET News
Further proof, as if any were needed, that the patent system turns into a steaming pile of shit as soon as it has dealings with software.
United States Patent: 6941562
A wonderful example of why the patent system is so totally b0rked and completely unsuited to software. Someone patent Ajax (or Remote Scripting, if you prefer) back in 2001. Un. Bel. Eeeevable.
B Vitamin Case Reaches Supreme Court - Yahoo! News
Finally, questions are being asked about some of the more ludicrous patents out there. "Have inventors been busy patenting laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas?" Duh!
The Patent Epidemic
An article delving into the crazy, crazy world of the US Patent Office.
Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig
This, my friends, is the number of the beast.