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Entries in Intellectual Property (44)
Antitrust status conference on tap for Microsoft
September 24, 2008 By Dawn Kawamoto (CNET News)
Microsoft and antitrust regulators will be back in federal court on Thursday, for a regularly scheduled status conference on the software giant's compliance with the final judgment order stemming from its historic consent decree.
In preparation for the upcoming hearing, which will be held in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Microsoft, the Department of Justice, and state antitrust regulators filed a joint status report late last week.
Appcelerator switches from GPL to Apache to boost adoption
September 16, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
We've seen a groundswell of support for the GNU General Public License (GPL) and its variants among commercial open-source companies, including MySQL, Funambol, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and others. But Appcelerator is bucking the trend and changing from the GPL to the Apache Public License for its Rich Internet Application developer tools.
A new battle is beginning in branding for the Web
September 2, 2008 By Steve Lohr (New York Times)
To marketers large and small, the Web is a wide open frontier, an unlimited billboard with boundless branding opportunities.
For the empirical proof, look at the filings with the government for new trademarks that, put simply, are brand names.
Judge: Even 'free' open-source code is licensed
August 15, 2008 By Chloe Albanesius (PCMag.com)
The open source community – and tech-savvy model railroad enthusiasts – were handed a victory Wednesday when an appeals court ruled that people who use open source content can be found guilty of copyright infringement if they do not adhere to the license terms set out by the creator.
Is MS-DWSS the POP3 for collaborative workspaces?
August 12, 2008 By Larry Cannell (Burton Group)
This is the last in a series of blog posts where I discuss what Alfresco's support of SharePoint protocols means and what can happen now that Microsoft has released technical documentation of their Office and Windows protocols. The first post is entitled "Cloning SharePoint" and the second post is "What the heck is a SharePoint Protocol?"
Alfresco Labs 3 is a thought provoking example of a type of solution that can be created now that Microsoft has released this protocol information.
Microsoft extends and clarifies the OSP
July 28, 2008 By Mike Gunderloy (Ostatic)
Microsoft has made it clear (in part through this posting from Associate General Counsel Richard Wilder) that a software product doesn't have to implement an entire specification perfectly to fall under the OSP. That's welcome news to developers who were worried that a bug or missing feature could result in them inadvertently being subject to legal action.
IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns
July 3, 2008 By Grant Gross (CIO)
IBM has acquired Platform Solutions, a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, in a move that raised antitrust concerns from one IT trade group.
IBM's acquisition of Platform Solutions, announced Wednesday, ends lawsuits the two companies had filed against each other. In November 2006, IBM filed a lawsuit against Platform Solutions (PSI), accusing the Sunnyvale, California, company of patent infringement by creating computers that allow customers to run IBM's System z operating systems and software on mainframes from other vendors.
The Commission's incoherent approach to IP imperils Europe's economic future
July 2, 2008 By Joff Wild (IAM Magazine)
Whenever you speak to someone from the European Commission about intellectual property and ask them whether the various directorate-generals that have an interest in the area get together and talk issues through, you are always told yes. I have been assured on a number of occasions that there are regular meetings between representatives of the different DGs on IP and that everyone agrees on everything IP-related that the European Commission says or does. All of which makes you wonder whether any of them really have any clue about the extraordinary mixed messages that come out of Brussels on what seems like a regular basis.
T3 Technologies ready to lodge complaint with EU over IBM conduct - source
July 1, 2008 Thompson Financial (CNBC)
T3 Technologies Inc. is ready to lodge a formal antitrust complaint with the European Commission against U.S. technology company IBM over alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the European computer mainframe market, a source close to the matter said.
T3 Technologies believes that IBM, as the number one mainframe vendor, has shut out it and other rivals from sales in the market by closing support for older mainframe systems and not licensing its mainframe software to rivals.
The curse of open source license proliferation
May 9, 2008 By Mark Hinkle (Socialized Software)
I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license. The tides are shifting, debates now center around which open source license to use. Adding to the complexity of the debate is proliferation of OSI-approved licenses.