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All Products Camcorders Cameras CD Players & Recorders Computer Add-Ons DVD Players Gadgets Home Audio Home Office Home Theater PDAs Phones Portable Audio / Video Printers Scanners TVs VCRs As many of us already know, the issue of software patents is currently being addressed by industry and the patent office. The following links provide a guide to aid in understanding the issues associated with software patents. The League for Programming Freedom ( http://www.lpf.org/Patents/industry-at-risk.html or industry-at-risk.html )  has submitted a paper to the US Patent Office, which provides a good overview of the issue, and is suggested reading for those interested in the specific area of software patents. Note that the LPF position is that software patents are bad in general. Unfortunately as they make their case and present the facts it becomes clear, from a pragmatic point of view, that software patents may be critical to the survival of a business in the coming years. Related Books A good collection of books on patents, copy rights, trademarks, and intellectual property. Software patents granted 1990 - 1992: IBM 500 Fujitsu 50 Lotus 7 Hitachi 400 HP 50 Novell 1 AT&T/Bell 150 Sun 50 Borland 0 DEC 150 Unisys 30 NeXT 0 Toshiba 150 Apple 20 Oracle 0 Sharp 100 Texas Inst. 20 Pyramid 0 Xerox 100 Microsoft 13 SGI 0 Canon 70 Intel 10 Sybase 0 Motorola 70 Matsushita 9 Symantec 0 Wang 60 Adobe 8 WordPerfect 0 Total software patents granted (1990 - 1992): 5000 Entities with fewer than 5 s/w patents: 1000 Entities with 5 or more s/w patents: 60 Roger Smith, Assistant General Counsel for IBM: The IBM patent portfolio gains us the freedom to do what we need to do through cross-licensing -- it gives us access to the inventions of others that are the key to rapid innovation. Access is far more valuable to IBM than the fees it receives from its 9,000 active patents. There's no direct calculation of this value, but it's many times larger than the fee income, perhaps an order of magnitude larger. --- "Think" magazine, #5, 1990. Patent Debate: League for Programming Freedom (LPF) Index of /pub/mirrors/lpf/ Examples Of Software Patents that are raising concern in the industry: 4924411 5151991 5121499 5247611 4956809 4714989 Patent Awarded to Lynx RTS Main TOC There is more to life then all this techie stuff. You are burning out half of your brain. Before it is too late, give it a rest and feed the other half of your brain with a visit to a wonderful sane cyber shop. LinkExchange Member Free Home Pages at GeoCities Technologies Copyright © 1997 All Rights Reserved. Top of Page

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