A summary of early coverage about the patent reform bill, which proves useless to Free software

Red Hat and Novell stood up to a patent bully and got a favorable jury verdict in the IPI trial which invalidated some software patents that should never have been issued. It's hard to see how that's not a good thing for open source. It's also good that the particular battle has inspired discussion of the need for fundamental reform of the U.S. patent system.

Since I run my own small business, I'm very interested in health care reform. You see, my tiny -- two-person -- company pays more than four figures a month for health insurance. Ow!

Reform is ahead, Microsoft plays mental games against Linux, Microsoft-affiliated patent harvesters revisited and studied

When a Public Administration uses it to reform the way it works, to solve the problem it actually has instead of those authors of proprietary software _think_ it has

Chrome comes under software patent attack, Apple to fight back against Nokia over patents, a new (if any) model for protectionism is needed

At the Linux Foundation's annual LinuxCon event this week, Columbia University law professor and Software Freedom Law Center founder Eben Moglen explained that prospects for software patent reform are bleak and that the time has come for the free software community to start finding ways to solve its patent problems by using the patent system itself.

Philips might be taken to court after using illegal force to 'protect' patents; US candidates on patent reform; patent trolls watch.

Last September, the House of Representatives approved the Patent Reform Act of 2007, legislation that would make important changes to America's patent system.