The European Commission yesterday unveiled a controversial proposal for a harmonized law on software patents that is less encompassing than laws in the U.S. and Japan. The proposed law, which would ...

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Microsoft/TomTom lawsuit sparks call to change a patent system that helps few, hurts many. The recent Microsoft/TomTom patent infringement suit has sparked a renewed call for software patent reform.

BRUSSELS – A proposed Europe-wide law on software patents has been knocked off the agenda of this week’s plenary meeting of European parliamentarians and won’t be debated by the full assembly until ...

BRUSSELS – Supporters of open source and free software saw an extravagant lobbying exercise against a planned European Union law on software patents backfire on them Thursday. More than 300 software ...

These are interesting times for patent lawyers. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has proposed new transparency rules and will soon run a pilot program to introduce glossaries to patent ...

Microsoft's recent trials and tribulations with its Word software patent illustrates the difficulty in granting -- and defending -- software patents. This fall, Microsoft was briefly barred from ...

STRASBOURG, France, July 6 -- -- The European Parliament rejected a proposed law Wednesday that would create a single way of patenting software across the European Union. The vote, 648 to 14 with 18 ...