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Software Patents: News Sources and Discussion Rounds
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As the number of granted patents on algorithms and business methods (computer-implemented solutions) soars to hundreds of thousands and the licensing tax on the industry is making itself felt, the quantity and quality of information on the Net seems to be rising proportionally. Here we try to keep track of the most important ones.

Mailing Lists

subscription infolangarchiveRelated Websites
FFII-Neuigkeitende+Software Patents: News and Chronology
FFII Newsen+Software Patents: News and Chronology
FFII Softwarepatente-Diskussionde+FFII: Logic Patents in Europe
AFUL FreePatents Forumen+FFII: Logic Patents in Europe and (protecting competition against the abuse of software patents)
PROSA Discussione Brevettiit+(Prosa: Contro Gli Brevetti Software)
EPO Discussionen (European Patent Office)
Intellectual Property Law Discussion List, operated by PA Axel Hornsen+IPJUR.com
IP Wire (Newsletter of IP lawyers at the European Commission, financed by DG Enterprise, in part operated by EPO Liason Bureau at the European Commission)en?IPR Helpdesk
TIIP Newsletter (maintained by leading american economists, focussing on reviews of research results on the economics of innovation)en+Research on Innovation

Other News Sources

->Software Patents: Discussion Rounds and News Channels
As the number of undeserved patents on program logics, business practises and other trivialities soars to hundreds of thousands and the dire consequences are gradually being felt, the activity of various mailing lists and newsletters gradually intensifies. Here we try to keep track of the most important ones.
->Europe Shareware Newspage
->IPJur News
Blog of PA Axel Horns
->http://www.bustpatents.com/
Website of Gregory Aharonian, editor of a newsletter on software patents
->EU News
->CEC / DG Markt / IndProp
->(European Commission Software Patentability Project)
->WIPO News
->EPO News
->BMJ: BMJ.bund.de: Internet and Law
news page of the german Federal Ministery of Justice

see also BMJ: BMJ.bund.de: Internet and Law

->RWS-Verlag: BGH-free
Current decisions of the German Federal Court of Justice as full texts

Gesetzeswidrige Wirtschaftspolitik des BGH-Patentsenates

->BPatG Eilunterrichtungen
Current Decisions of the German Federal Patent Court
->Neues vom DPMA
German Patent Office NewsPage
->INPI
News from the French Patent Office (INPI.fr)

Plutarque

->UKPO News
see The UK Patent Family and Software Patents
->Avisos y Noticias
DKPTO News
->DK PTO Nyheder
DKPTO News
->US PTO News
see Software Patents in the USA
->JPO News
see Patent Inflation in Japan
->AIPPI News
see also Association Internationale Pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle (AIPPI)
->FFII News
How is the infrastructure logical ideas and creations growing and thriving? How is it being infringed or safeguarded by legal systems, in particular by private property claims? What are we doing to defend and cultivate it?

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