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- In Defense Of Patents and Copyright
  Posted by Jeff from Yro.slashdot
  C|Net Editor Michael Kanellos offers a potentially contentious opinion piece about patents and copyright on the CNet site. Highlights of the fairly biased piece include: a cheap shot dismissing open source projects as existing only to act as a foil for Microsoft, blatantly equating copyright infringement with stealing, and an embarrassing failure to even casually mention the current term lengths of patents and copyrights as a driving factor behind popular dissatisfaction.
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- Judge Orders Vonage to Stop Adding Customers
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  ''It's the difference of cutting off oxygen as opposed to the bullet in the head,'' Vonage lawyer Roger Warin said. The judge had initially planned to issue a full injunction that would have barred Vonage from using the patented technology to serve its existing customers. If these are software patents, they are likely to fall.
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- Businesses Split on Patent Case
  Posted by Jon from Washington Post
  The Supreme Court is hearing a probably-very-important patent case that may help clarify the definition of "obvious" things that cannot be patented.
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- High court to hear landmark eBay patent case
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  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a patent case that is part of a wider struggle between the software and pharmaceutical industries over the future of the U.S. patent system.
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- Supreme Court takes up key patent case
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  At stake, attorneys on both sides of the case say, are 25 years of patent law and literally tens of thousands of patents on drugs, medical devices, computer software and other inventions
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- Supreme Court to hear eBay patent case
  Posted by Jeff from Infoworld
  This will be an interesting test of SCOTUS re: Web and software patents.
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- BlackBerry shutdown closer after ruling
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  It will be interesting to see how this case affects software patents.
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Judge Orders Vonage to Stop Adding Customers

Court of Appeals stays the injunction.

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