Patents Stories for 2003

Outstanding Achievements In Biopiracy - 2004 34
Company Claims Patent on CD Writing 559
Slashback: Hilbert's, Transgenic, Silicon 214
When Good Patents Go Bad 220
Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent 404
Regifting Not Just A Seinfeld Gag -- It's Patented 70
Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System 1424
Kurzweil Gets A Patent For Poetic Software 242
A Day in the Life of a Patent Examiner 225
AT&T Sues PayPal and eBay for Patent Infringement 355
Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam Patent 314
Evolving the Social Network 165
USPTO To Reexamine Eolas, SBC Patents 96
O'Reilly On What Happened To BountyQuest 134
IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent 247
Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented 519
Are MS, W3C Barking Up Wrong Prior Art Tree? 97
FTC Issues Report Critical Of Patent Policy 206
W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination 342
Employee Patent Compensations? 89
Patent Sought For Amazon Marketplace 182
Fight Woodworking Piracy: Add EULA Restrictions 662
Copyright Extension In Australia 258
Slashback: Diebold, Peroxide, Comdex 225
X10 Pays $4.3 million In Damages For Pop-Unders 288
Europeans Still Battling Software Patents 142
Third Anniversary of Bezos-Backed Patent Reform 115
Microsoft Patents Your Local Weather Report 437
U.S. Court: Lexmark Can Tie Rebates To Refills 365
Microsoft Patents 'Phone-Home' Failure Reporting 361
EU Parliament Approves Software Patents 678
European Parliament Clashes Over Software Patents 213
EU Amends Software Patent Directive (Suggestions) 160
Torvalds And Cox Write EU Parliament On Patents 293
Lobbying For Linux 154
Can Lotus Notes R3 Prior Art Save The Browser? 522
Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent 803
WebSense Patents Censorware System 179
The Economist Contrasts American, European Patent Approaches 205
Nano Power for Nano Devices Patented 30
Protests Delay European Software Patent Vote 316
Freedom of Speech in Software 250
Sites Shut Down to Protest Software Patents 563
Plugin Patent to Mean Changes in IE? 437
PanIP May Be Standing On Shaky Ground 261
Software Patent Demonstrations Taking Off 239
E-Pass Can Resue Patent Case Against Palm 190
Demonstrations Against EU Software Patent Plans 33
Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent 668
EU IP Enforcement Directive Criticized 295
EBay Fined $29.5M in Patent Case 317
RIM Loses NTP Case, To Pay $53 Million 256
Holographic Keypads Float Into View 291
O'Reilly On The Importance Of The Mainframe Heritage 62
Yahoo! Settles Patent Dispute 164
Could You Really Do Better than the USPTO? 98
PKWare Files a Patent Application for Secure .zip 281
Microsoft's Patent Problem 712
ATM For Anonymous Online Payments 254
Making Freenet Find Stuff Faster 283
Australian Gov't Moves To Block E-commerce Patent 103
Overture To A Patent War? 174
Prior Art to Pinpoint vs. Amazon, from 1980's? 139
USPTO Issues Microsoft A Patent For 60's Technology 53
EU Sues Member Nations To Force Change In Patent Laws 24
Patent Granted for Ethical AI 345
Business Process Patents Taking The World By Storm 51
The New Yorker on Business Process Patents 315
Microsoft Patenting IM Translation? 446
EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules 252
More on European Software Patents 150
A Replacement Term for 'Intellectual Property'? 177
Transparent Web Caching Patented 309
Netflix Granted Patent on DVD Subscription Rentals 638
Dutch Firm Says Dell Motherboards Violate Its Patent 38
Chip Firm Hit By 45-Year-Old Patent 375
Nextel Claims Trademarks On "Push To Talk" and "PTT" 44
European Software Patents Vote Now June 30th 38
GIF Patent Prepares to Expire 632
EU Moves Towards Single European Patent Standard 234
European MP Responds on Software Patents 307
How to Become a Patent Millionaire 500
What Is The Future of PNG? 609
Sendo Sues Orange for Patent Infringement 100
Steal This Idea 222
Copyright Defeats? 285
Online Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo 329
eBay guilty Of Patent Infringement, Ordered To Pay 70
An Empirical Look at Software Patents 9
W3C Approved Patent Policy: Royalty Free Standards 144
MailBlocks sues Earthlink over Anti-Spam Tech 336
W3C Poised To Release New Patent Policy 112
Monsanto Plant Patent Case Winds On 268
Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office 337
Mighty Amazon 189
Excerpt From The FTC Trial Against Rambus 11
Prince of Pop-ups 543
"False" Open source Representative Tells EU Patents OK 482
SARS Researcher Files Preemptive Patent Application 291
From Legal Wordings to Economic Reality 78
SBC Getting Aggressive With Frames Patent 444
Creating A Global Patent System 172
Write Your Own Laws With Patents 16
Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues 282
Patent Office Shows Record Backlog 236
Amazon Subsidiary Alexa Patents Resubmitting Form 29
Greenspan Examines the Economics of IP 401
Forgent Networks Wins $25M from Sony for JPEG Patent 270
Information Patents in the US and Europe 182
Acadia Streaming Patent Contested 194
Palm Sued Over Multiplayer PDA Games Patent 15
Browser Cookie Patent 238
Amazon's Bezos Wants Web Advertising Patent 264
Revised W3C Patent Policy Out, Comments Invited 95
Engineer Loses SSL Patent Case against RSA and VeriSign 152
Another Garbage Patent 612
Google Patents Search Algorithm 367
Amazon Scores Another Patent 395
Interwoven Patents Code Versioning 517
'Patently Ridiculous' - What's Wrong With The PTO 31
Reason on IP Protection and Creativity 284
SQL Server Developers Face Huge Royalties 574
The Case Against Intellectual Property 243
Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent 628
Microsoft, Others, File "Stealth" Patents 26
Acacia Climbing the Food Chain 162
Online Testing Patented 48
Biotech Genome Patents Invalidated? 148
SBC Patents Links, Dynamic Pages 452
SCO Group Hires Boies After All 479
Will GIFs Be Free in 2003? 48
SBC Demands Royalties for Links in Frames 55
Defensive Software Patents for Open Source Projects? 51
Ontario Ignores Gene Patent 68