A roundup of many software patents-related developments, including the way they affect Free software

For the past 26 weeks I've been producing the Bizarre Cathedral strips for Free Software Magazine. Every one of them is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commerical-Share Alike (BY-NC-SA) licence. Recently I've received a few pieces of mail saying this is a'non-free' licence and questioning my use of it here.

With the games industry apparently enthralled by DRM and committed to criminalising their customers, our upcoming event as part of the London Games Fringe is especially timely.

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Well, the Windows Vista-Capable class action lawsuit has taken another pretty interesting turn, with the plaintiffs lawyers having requested that Microsoft use it's own Windows Update service to notify potential class members of the suit.

The Vista Capable lawsuit accuses Microsoft of duping buyers in 2006 and 2007 by letting PC makers slap a [...]

I don't want to overstate anything, but I can't help but notice that Berger Singerman's 13th bill has just been filed, and it includes this intriguing notation on Exhibit A [PDF],

Tanner has filed with the bankruptcy court in Delaware a motion asking the court to approve an expansion of its work for SCO. It projects for the year ahead that it will do SCO's annual report, its 4 quarterly 10Qs, and the required Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 audit statements.

It's been a while since we last looked in on the IP Innovation LLC v. Red Hat et al patent litigation. In fact, it's been exactly a year. The parties are deep in discovery, with trial set for April 12, 2010.

In the mid 90s I acted for a large government institution in a dispute over the implementation of a failed search engine development being carried out by one of the worlds’ largest developers/systems integrators.