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End Software Patents

End Software Patents (ESP) is an international campaign of the Free Software Foundation for a legislative ban on software patents in all jurisdictions. We believe that software patents constitute a threat to developer freedom. To learn more, check the ESP FAQ and blog.

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This community is dedicated to the discussion of software patents. Here you can post anything that is related to software patents. Opposing views are welcome, but only to the extent that they encourage healthy debate. ESP advocates for the total (not partial) elimination of software patents.

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This community is run and moderated by supporters of the End Software Patents campaign, not the FSF staff itself. Opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the FSF or the End Software Patents campaign.

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ESP Wiki is looking for moderators (lemmy.ml)
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If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.

ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.

It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesting details about this topic.

Do not hesitate to contact me at any point; this post will be up for a while.

You can read more about the End Software Patents campaign in the community's description.

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Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 (www.nytimes.com)
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See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.

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ESP letter to the European Commission's proposal for a Regulation on standard-essential patents (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
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Huawei reveals royalty rates for 4G, 5G, Wi-fi 6, IoT patents (www.huawei.com)
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Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense! (tutanota.com)
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Harmonization of European patent systems - ESP Wiki (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
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On 1 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court and the unitary patent were entered into force. Simply put, this means that we will soon have software patents in Europe that are effective automatically in the entire European Union.

Hardly anyone talks about this, but it is bound to become a problem. I am currently editing relevant entries on ESP Wiki. This specific entry is about the history and dangers of harmonizing the European patent systems (spoiler alert: the EU had been trying to create such a system ever since its creation).

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Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense (www.linuxfoundation.org)
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Transcript: The state of software patents in 2022 with Panos Alevropoulos โ€“ End Software Patents (endsoftwarepatents.org)
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Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls (ipde.com)
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GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights (blog.opensource.org)
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Asymmetric numeral systems - ESP Wiki (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
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This is a new ESP Wiki entry explaining the situation around software patents on a new data compression algorithm.

The original author, Jarek Duda, released his work into the public domain. Despite his intentions, Big Tech companies are attempting to patent his technology around the world. In early 2022, Microsoft registered a software patent on ANS. Google tried to do the same a few years ago but failed. We can't catch them all.

The free software community is fighting an unfair battle. Megacorporations are stealing people's work by imposing unjustified patent rights. The patent offices grant software patents despite obvious existence of prior art.

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AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent (nitter.fdn.fr)
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See Hacker News comments.

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The state of software patents in 2022 - LibrePlanet talk by Panos Alevropoulos @ 18:30 UTC March 20 (today) (libreplanet.org)
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ESP Wiki March 2022 project updates (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
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This is the first post on Lemmy related to ESP Wiki. I will be posting updates here from now on. Please share this site if you can. Combating software patents is very important for user freedom.

Some notes: I'm trying to make ESP Wiki a user-friendly place so that anyone can find it easy to contribute information. For this reason, I focused on creating a style guide and some neat templates. Templates are especially important because we can use them to easily mark entries that need work, so we can focus on them first.

Here is an overview of March 2022 project updates so far:

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Alarm raised after Microsoft wins data-encoding patent (www.theregister.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/177331

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The threat of software patents persists โ€“ End Software Patents (endsoftwarepatents.org)
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An article I wrote for ESP a few months ago. I thought it would be good to have it posted here too.

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MPEG-2 patents have expired everywhere except Malaysia, but the RaspberryPi Foundation will keep requiring purchase of license keys until they expire there too (lemmy.ml)
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Plagiarism as a patent amplifier: Understanding the delayed rollout of post-quantum cryptography (blog.cr.yp.to)
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