Techrights /2018/10/
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10/01 Links 1/10/2018: Linux 4.19 RC6 and Audacity 2.3.0 Released
10/01 The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli’s Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
10/01 EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
10/01 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent ‘Industry’
10/02 Links 2/10/2018: Stratis 1.0 and Milestone for Alliance of Open Media
10/02 Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
10/03 Eric Swildens Squashes Bogus US Patent, Corporate Media’s Response Gives Room for Thought
10/03 Today’s IBM is Acting Like a Patent Troll and Arming Active Patent Trolls, Just Like Microsoft Does
10/03 More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
10/03 Links 3/10/2018: IBM Containers and Red Hat Announces Satellite 6.4
10/04 Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
10/04 Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
10/04 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition
10/04 Links 4/10/2018: Tails 3.9.1, Fedora 29 Gnome 3.30 Test Day Tomorrow
10/05 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
10/05 Links 5/10/2018: Mesa 18.2.2 Released, First Release of libxmlb
10/05 Microsoft Uses LOT Network to Spread Lies and Promote Its Protection Racket
10/06 Techrights’ Position on the Linus Torvalds and CoC Kerfuffle
10/06 The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
10/06 Google ‘Prior Art Archive’ (for Patents) the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem
10/06 Links 6/10/2018: Mageia 6.1, Qt 5.12 LTS Beta Released
10/06 Is Hyatt an Inventor or a Tax Evader?
10/06 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
10/06 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is Not Getting Money From Apple and VirnetX Might Not Get Any, Either
10/07 The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us
10/08 When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
10/08 The Federal Circuit Continues to ‘Lecture’ the Patent Office on Patent Scope and Limits, But Iancu Isn’t Listening
10/08 Links 8/10/2018: Linux 4.19 RC7, Mageia 6.1, Calculate Linux 18
10/08 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Under Andrei Iancu Subjected to an Assault on Patent Quality
10/08 In Spite of Campaigns Against It, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Squashes Software Patents by the Hundreds Per Month, Patent Maximalists Still Try to Stop It
10/09 António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
10/09 Links 9/10/2018: Plasma 5.14, Flatpak 1.2 Plan
10/09 Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents)
10/09 Greg Reilly Inadvertently Makes a Case for Replacing/Improving the Patent System With a Wiki, Editable by All as Society Moves Forward
10/09 The USPTO’s Principal Issue is Abstract Patents (or Patent Scope), Not Prior Art Searches
10/10 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents — Just Like Microsoft — and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors
10/10 Links 10/10/2018: Unreal Engine 4.21 Preview, Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 3.11
10/11 New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
10/11 Links 11/10/2018: PostgreSQL 11 RC1 Released, Librem 5 Loves GNOME 3.32
10/11 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
10/11 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
10/13 EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
10/13 Links 13/10/2018: Ubuntu Touch OTA-5, MidnightBSD 1.0 Ready
10/13 Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
10/13 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
10/14 Federal Circuit Doubles Down on User Interface Patents, Helps Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Curtail the Prime Competitor of Microsoft Office
10/14 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Decides That USPTO Wrongly Granted Patents to Roche
10/14 USPTO FEES Act/SUCCESS Act Gives More Powers to Director Iancu, Supplying Patents for Litigation ‘Business’ and Embargo (ITC)
10/14 Even Judge Gilstrap From Texas is Starting to Accept That Software Patents Are Invalid
10/14 Let’s Hope Apple Defeats All the Abstract Patents That Are Leveraged Against It
10/15 Links 15/10/2018: Testing Ubuntu 18.10 Release Candidates, KaOS 2018.10 Released
10/15 Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
10/16 ‘Cloud’, ‘AI’ and Other Buzzwords as Excuses for Granting Fake Patents on Software
10/16 Links 1610/2018: Linux 4.19 RC8, Xfce Screensaver 0.1.0 Released
10/16 Judge-Bashing Tactics, Undermining PTAB, and Iancu’s Warpath for the Litigation and Insurance ‘Industries’
10/17 Improving US Patent Quality Through Reassessments of Patents and Courts’ Transparency
10/17 Links 17/10/2018: Elementary OS 5.0 “Juno” Released, MongoDB’s Server Side Public Licence
10/17 Ask OIN How It Intends to Deal With Microsoft Proxies Such as Patent Trolls
10/18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
10/18 Links 18/10/2018: New Ubuntu and Postgres
10/18 The EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation ‘Industry’ Loves That
10/18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
10/19 Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant
10/19 Links 19/10/2018: OpenBSD 6.4 and OpenSSH 7.9 Released
10/20 The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe
10/20 Links 20/10/2018: Mesa 18.2.3 Released, FreeBSD 12.0 Beta 1
10/20 Unified Patents Demolishes Some More Notorious Patent Trolls and Offers Bounties to Take Down More of Them
10/21 More ‘Blockchain’ Nonsense in Pursuit of Bogus, Nonsensical Software Patents
10/21 Data Engine Technologies (DET) Just One Among Many Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls That Pick on Microsoft’s Biggest Competitors
10/21 Alice/Mayo and Hatch-Influenced US Patent Office
10/21 Lockpath Patents Demonstrate That the US Patent Office — Unlike US Courts — Keeps Ignoring 35 U.S.C. § 101/Alice
10/21 A Warning About MPEG-G, the Latest Software Patents Trap That Threatens Innovation Everywhere
10/21 Lack of Patent Quality Means Lack of Patent Validity and Lack of Legal Certainty
10/21 The Eastern District of Texas and Its Patent Trolls Affinity Not a Solved Issue
10/21 MIT and the Prior Art Archive Perpetuate Existing Problems
10/21 Funded by the Public to Prey on the Public: The Absurdity of Patent Sales and ‘Enforcement’ by Government
10/22 Links 22/10/2018: New Kernel Release and Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge
10/23 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
10/23 Links 23/10/2018: Mesa 18.3 Planned, RISC OS Adopts Apache Licence, Mozilla Firefox 63.0 Available
10/23 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Still Suing Microsoft’s Rivals, Microsoft Gags Its Staff Regarding Patent Matters
10/23 German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
10/24 Links 24/10/2018: Windows Breaks Itself Again, Debian GNU/Linux Gets Salsa
10/24 Colleen Chien’s New Paper Analyses the Basis for Invalidating Software Patents
10/24 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
10/24 The Patent Microcosm is Trying to Derail Patent Reform and Make Iancu the ‘American Battistelli’
10/25 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
10/25 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
10/25 The Litigation ‘Industry’ Pays the Media for ‘Sponsored’ (Paid-for) Articles That Sway Public Opinion on Patent Policy
10/25 Links 25/10/2018: Blender 2.8 Beta, Qt Design Studio 1.0 Released
10/25 EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say ‘AI’ in the Patent Applications and We’ll Compel Examiners to Grant
10/26 The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel ‘Healthy’
10/26 On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)
10/26 Links 26/10/2018: System76 Hardware, Glenn Rander-Pehrson (PNG Innovator) Dies, X.org Patched
10/26 Microsoft’s Largest Patent Troll, Operating Through Shell Entities, Broadens Extortion Campaign in Eastern Texas
10/27 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft’s Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
10/27 Links 27/10/2018: Wine 3.19, Sparky 4.9 RC, GCC 6.5 Released
10/28 The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
10/28 EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He’s Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
10/28 The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia Wants Litigation, Hence It Wants Software Patents
10/28 The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
10/28 Links 28/10/2018: Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Plans, a Look at Lubuntu 18.10 Release
10/29 PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With ‘Presidential’ Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump
10/29 USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)
10/29 Links 29/10/2018: Red Hat Being Bought
10/30 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Judges Oughtn’t Attend Patent Lawyers’ Echo Chamber Events Like the AIPLA Annual Meeting
10/30 Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
10/30 Links 30/10/2018: System76 Hardware, Disco Dingo, New Fedora and RHEL
10/30 IBM- and Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Strikes Again and IBM’s Lobbyist for Software Patents Has Just Defended Patent Trolls (Again)
10/30 Donald Trump’s Choice of Leadership for the USPTO Means That Invalid Patents Continue to be Granted Only for Law Firms to Profit
10/30 EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before”
10/30 Nobody Should be Immune From Patent Law or the Rule of Law in General
10/31 Links 31/10/2018: Linux Lite 4.2 and GNOME 3.30.2 Officially Released
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