The EU Commission wants Michel Barnier to make the Community patent a reality ("community" being a euphemism that would fascinate even Orwell)

U.S. innovation slowed this year for the first time in 13 years as the recession cut into budgets, and costs to protect inventions rose. The system is broken.. Pushing patents through the system is easier said than done: The decline in filings this year has brought to light a number of problems with the antiquated American patent system.

The eternal battle to win a unified/harmonised/communal patent system (lobbied for by Charlie McCreevy, amongst others under these euphemisms) makes dangerous strides that threaten Free software

While software patents threaten to invade Europe, Sir Tim Berners-Lee antagonises their existence

TiVo's shift to a strategy of patent litigation is not paying off, patent trolling becomes common, Microsoft rides the wave

Vandana Shiva talks about patenting of seeds; other examples of privatisation with patents and funding.

Canonical's route to escaping Microsoft's patent extortion is simple owing to gThumb and Gnote, but will it manage to see Mono's agenda?

Familiar bedfellows come together for an event that celebrates intellectual monopoly (Innovation 2009)