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...submitted to the US Patent Office. "The US patent system is broken," Osimo said. This is because searches for "prior art" took so long that the office simply let everything pass and let the patent holders dispute their rights in court... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/15/237723/E-government-success-depends-on-external-expertise.htm
...payments last year, and Google has now counterclaimed saying the patent in question should be made invalid because of prior art. The patent in dispute describes a distributed database system that breaks queries into fragments and distributes... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/01/14/228901/Google-fights-search-patent-claim.htm
...originally asked the US patent office to re-examine the patents almost two years ago. The foundation claimed there was “prior art” to Microsoft’s patents which were accordingly invalid. The organisation also feared that Microsoft would demand... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/01/11/213622/microsoft-wins-vital-patent-decision.htm
...claims that these patents represent the worst cases where patents issued are clearly too broad, ignore the existence of prior art or are so obvious as to be too trivial for patenting. Patents identified by the EFF include: a method for administering... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2004/07/06/203632/eff-lists-10-it-patents-that-endanger-internet-freedom.htm
...Foundation, which said they were invalid because of “prior art” – in other words, Microsoft tried to register patents...the Public Patent Foundation’s claim that there was prior art in relation to FAT, originally developed for Windows... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/10/06/212197/microsoft-loses-linux-patent-battle.htm
...designed to attack patents that impose particularly heavy burdens on software developers and internet users, by identifying prior art that can be used to invalidate those patents and by pursuing invalidation of those patents through re-examination efforts... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/05/24/224049/Novell-and-EFF-form-alliance-to-reform-software-patents.htm
...source software code and documentation that can be used as prior art during the patent examination process. The Open Source Software as Prior Art project aims to reduce the number of software patents... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/01/17/213704/Technology-news-in-brief.htm
...most of Microsoft's software is already a refinement of other people's work, meaning challenges on the grounds of "prior art" are decidedly dicey. Of course, if it ever did come to court, Microsoft's challenge could run the risk of going... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/06/08/224647/downtime-dont-be-microdaft-they-surely-wont-sue.htm
...Rentzepis. A former head of Bell Laboratories, Rentzepis has approximately 85 patents and his innovations are referenced as prior art by 45 of the world's top optical technology providers, including IBM, Panasonic and Hitachi. He's lining up OEM... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/07/03/225302/data-storage-startups-emerge-from-stealth.htm
...Trademark Office declared it would independently re-examine the patentability of some patents, based on several different prior art publications. Comment on this article: computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk QHS6-20090512.3 http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/11/10/219849/symantec-wins-security-patent-battle.htm

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