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Promoting Shared Hardware Design
Now is the time to move open-source hardware development into basic research labs. Read More »
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Public Research For Private Gain
UC Regents recently approved a new corporate entity that will likely give a group of well-connected businesspeople control over how academic research is used. Read More »
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Pulling Back From Open Source Hardware, MakerBot Angers Some Adherents
You likely know MakerBot Industries as the poster child for the new era of 3D-printing. You might not know that, until last week, the company and its CEO, Bre Pettis, were considered shining lights in the open-source hardware movement. Read More »
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Reach For The Open Skies: An Interview With Curtis Olson
FlightGear is one of the most amazing and most important open source projects in existence. With a huge community around it, and a group of talented aviation lovers to develop it, FlightGear is the greatest and most open way to travel our world! Curtis Olson who is one of the founders of the project, explains the technical uniqueness of FlightGear, the plans of the project and how his love for airplanes made him a big part of this huge effort. Read More »
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Seeking Prior Art Where It Most Often Is Found In Software
Open Invention Network plans to mine open source projects for patent busters Read More »
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Self-Preservation Chokes Open Science, Kills The Patient
Arguably the one area that stands to benefit the most from open and shared data is science. Yet researchers are reluctant to do it. Why? Because the reward model for scientific discovery is chaining them to dollars they can't pocket otherwise. [...] Read More »
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Software Patents And The Return Of Functional Claiming
Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in the software industry than in other industries such as pharmaceuticals. They have pointed to a variety of problems and offered a variety of solutions...Most software patents today are written in functional terms. If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents, they could prevent overclaiming by software patentees and solve much of the patent thicket problem that besets software innovation. Read More »
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SparkFun CEO Nathan Seidle To Speak At TEDxBoulder Event
SparkFun Electronics, a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is proud to announce CEO Nathan Seidle will be presenting at the third annual TEDxBoulder event on Saturday, Sept. 22. Read More »
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Stop Patent Mischief By Curbing Patent Enforcement
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Software patents are evil. They allow the work of innovators to be ambushed and raise the cost of technology innovation. But finding a viable solution to the software patent mess isn't easy. Read More »
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Syapse Joins Free The Data! Initiative and Provides Software To Power Participant-centric Hereditary Gene Mutation Data
Syapse, the leader in software for bringing omics into routine medical use, announced that it has joined the Free the Data! initiative. [...] Read More »
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Thanks To 3D Printing And Open Source Hardware, Patent May Be On The Cusp Of A Copyright Moment
A new wave of creators care about innovating. They care about building things. And they mostly see patents as getting in the way. Read More »
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The Huge Societal Costs Of NPE Software Patent Lawsuits
Innovative software companies start each work day knowing that, no matter how careful and how ethical they are, they face a meaningful risk of being sued for patent infringement...A major source of this pain is non-practicing entities (NPEs), which are expert at acquiring and exploiting weak software patents. While this is not hot news to the open source community, the enormous financial harm caused by NPEs is just starting to be understood. Read More »
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The Open-Source Seed Movement In Wisconsin
Farmers have traditionally gathered and saved seeds from one growing season to plant in the next. But this age-old tradition is being threatened by corporations that are increasingly restricting access to seeds through patents. Read More »
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The Software Patent Solution Has Been Right Here All Along
New paper from a legal researcher [presented at the 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems] suggests a fix for the software patent mess has been lurking in the statute all this time.
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Transit Agencies Are Finally Fighting Back Against An Infamous Patent Troll
For several years now, a curious company called ArrivalStar – which has no website, appears to produce nothing, and is oddly registered in Luxembourg – has been systematically suing public transit agencies in the United States. [...] Read More »
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