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• Report EU Community Patent working breakfast 1 day, 18 hours ago
  
  Below is my summary, slightly long, of a working breakfast held in the European Parliament on the Community Patent. According to the European Commission, only Spain is preventing this (IMO bad) proposal from being adopted. At the meeting, it was interesting to hear the motivations for the Community Patent, and the issue of software patents was of course raised.
• House Democrats Try Again With Net Neutrality Bill 1 week ago
  
  Two House Democrats today introduced another bill that would prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) from slowing or degrading the delivery of some content over their networks.
• Day 3 in Novell v. SCO; and some bankruptcy filings 1 week, 6 days ago
  
  Day 3 of the SCO v Novell trial started with SCO's Edward Normand calling William Broderick, SCO's Director of Software Licensing....
• Data for 6,000 UCSF patients gets exposed online 2 weeks ago
  
  Patient data exposed on the Internet for months after [The University of California, San Francisco] gives records to third party for help in targeting potential financial donors, newspaper reports.
• How the Trial Will Go, Beginning Tomorrow (SCO v. Novell) 2 weeks, 3 days ago
  
  The trial in SCO v. Novell -- which has morphed into exclusively Novell's counterclaims against SCO -- begins tomorrow morning, and the parties have filed a Joint Pretrial Stipulation [PDF] and then an Amended one [PDF]. For purposes of this trial, Novell is the plaintiff and SCO the defendant, so Novell will be going first. Thanks to the Stipulation, we know how the trial is structured. Each side will limit itself to 10 hours. It's 10 hours sort of like football, though, so don't imagine it will all be over in, say, a long day or two days. A football team might have a minute left on the clock, but it takes a half hour to play it out. Similarly here, 10 hours each doesn't count things like conferences with the judge at the bench and things like that. It will go like this:
• The Legality of EULAs in The Netherlands 3 weeks ago
  
  When PsyStar announced they would be offering their own Macintosch clone, pre-installed with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard, they opened up a whole can of worms. Despite the fact that the company itself was shrouded in mystery and dubiousness, the possible implications of their actions sparkled an interesting debate here on OSNews as well as other discussion venues: can PsyStar and its users just discard Apple's End User License Agreement for Leopard? Instead of relying on my own limited layman's understanding of Dutch Common Law, I decided to contact Dutch legal experts, and ask for their opinions on Apple's EULA, and EULAs in general.
• A Eulogy For Patent Reform? 3 weeks, 4 days ago
  
  Following a week of inconclusive talks on the Patent Reform Act, prospects dwindle for action on the bill this year.
• Seagate Fires First SSD Legal Salvo 1 month ago
  
  Drive maker seen sending a message with patent infringement suit against a much smaller rival.
• ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks' 1 month ago
  
  The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard.
• Don't Work Downstream from Redmond 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  This is my problem with Microsoft’s patent pledge, with the Microsoft-Novell deal over codecs for Monopolight, and just about everything coming out of Redmond except for the pretty words of the open source interoperability lab.
• Will Rambus' Big Win Hold Up? 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  A San Jose jury today ruled in favor of Rambus in its legal battle with Micron Technology, Hynix Semiconductor and Nanya Technology in a patent infringement case involving DRAM memory.
• Sony Faces U.S. Scrutiny Over Blu-Ray 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  The U.S. International Trade Commission said it would launch an investigation into some 30 companies including Sony (NYSE: SNE) on possible patent infringements related to Blu-ray disc players and other products.
• Supremes Reject Microsoft's Novell Appeal 1 month, 4 weeks ago
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear Microsoft's appeal of a lower court ruling, thus setting the stage for yet another antitrust trial for the software giant.
• Courting Industry in The Net Neutrality Debate 1 month, 4 weeks ago
  
  If Internet neutrality is ever going to be the law of the land, businesses are going to have to join the movement, insisted two of the more outspoken advocates of a national broadband policy to bar Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking or degrading certain network traffic.
• SFLC Rejects Microsoft's Open Specification Promise 2 months ago
  
  The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has just come out with a scathing analysis of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise(OSP). In short, the SFLC concludes that the OSP still leaves developers with the potential for patent risk.
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