Jobs replied, saying that “[a] patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other open source codecs now.” The news spread like wildfire. This episode provides a good example of how software patents harm innovation and why they are ultimately incompatible with Free Software. Any program - Free Software or not - is threatened by patents.

The latest news about patents (software in particular) that affect Free software

Patents news from the past week with special focus on their possible effect on economies

Rambus antitrust comes to the Supreme Court; Bilski strikes again; isolated hardware patents news; trolls attack

A quick look at stories that may impact Free software at a lesser technical level

A roundup of software patent news that Free software watchers need to know about

The latest news about patents with emphasis on software

A roundup of software patents news and signs of political games around them

The following snippets from a news article contain propaganda terms such as “piracy” and “IPR”. The article also comes from a publication that typically published pro-Microsoft agenda. The intention here is to show you just how Microsoft overrides local laws and pushes software patents onto those who must not accept them.