IX. Appendix B: Links
I. Introduction
Are Software Patents Evil? Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. 112-29
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/20110916-pub-l112-29.pdf
The America Invents Act 500 Expanded: Effects of Patent Monetization Entities
University of California Hastings College of Law Professor Robin Feldman
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2247195
Software Patent Institute
http://spi.org/
Design Innovation: A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/open-patent-granting-process?page=1
II. Software Patentability
American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/law/aipa/
Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002
http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property_and_High_Technology_Technical_Amendments_Act_of_2002
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/20110916-pub-l112-29.pdf
US patent chief to software patent critics: “Give it a rest already,” Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/us-patent-chief-to-software-patent-critics-give-it-a-rest-already/
Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system?, Declan McCullogh, CNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57496747-38/google-time-to-ditch-our-current-software-patent-system/
Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them, Richard Stallman, Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents/
Defend Innovation: A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/open-patent-granting-process?page=1
IV. Software-Patent Notice and Discoverability
Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Eighth Edition, August 2001
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/
MPEP 2181: Identifying a 35 U.S.C. 112, Sixth Paragraph Limitation [R-9]
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2181.html#d0e219279
35 U.S.C. 112: Specification
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9015-appx-l.html#d0e302824
V. Federal Statutes & Regulations
USCS Const. Art. I § 8, cl. 8
http://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm#a1_sec8
35 USCS § 1
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partI-chap1-sec1.pdf
35 USCS § 101
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap10-sec101.pdf
35 USCS § 102
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap10-sec102.pdf
35 USCS § 103
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap10-sec103.pdf
35 USCS § 112
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/USCODE-2011-title35/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap11-sec112/content-detail.html
Patent Act of 1952, ch 950, § 1, 66 Stat. 792 (codified into 35 USCS)
http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/lipa/patents/patentact.asp
American Inventors Protection Act, Pub. L. 106-113
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/law/aipa/
Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107-273 http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property_and_High_Technology_Technical_Amendments_Act_of_2002
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. 112-29
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/20110916-pub-l112-29.pdf
PATENT REGULATIONS, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 37, Part 1- Patents
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/consolidated_rules.pdf
VI. Secondary Sources
Summary of America Invents Act, National Law Review
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/summary-america-invents-act
IP: New Weapons in the War Against Bad Patents, InsideCounsel
http://www.insidecounsel.com/2012/10/16/ip-new-weapons-in-the-war-against-bad-patents
The Broken Patent System: How We Got Here and How to Fix It, The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/
Are Software Patents Evil?, Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
The History of Software Patents: From Benson, Flook, and Diehr to Bilski and Mayo v. Prometheus, BitLaw
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html
USPTO Software Partnership, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/software_partnership.jsp
Software Patents: Obstacles to Software Development, Open Software Foundation
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.html
Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere 'Mental Processes', Mike Masnick, TechDirt
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110817/03120415557/court-ruling-opens-door-to-rejecting-many-software-patents-as-being-mere-mental-processes.shtml
Patent Act of 1952: Standard of Proof, Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership, Harvard Law Review, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 351 (2011)
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/125/november11/Leading_Case_8558.php
What the i4i-Microsoft Patent Case Means for Software Users, Dennis O’Reilly, CNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-20070828-68/what-the-i4i-microsoft-patent-case-means-for-software-users/
Patently Absurd, Simson L. Garfinkel, Wired Magazine (2.07)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.07/patents.html
History of Software Patents III: In re Alappat
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/11/01/history-of-software-patents-iii-in-re-alappat/id=7059/
Why Protect Software Through Patents, BitLaw
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/why-patent.html
Patents for Software-Related Inventions, Jeffrey R. Kuester and Ann K. Moceyunas
http://www.kuesterlaw.com/swpat.html
Software patents – Obstacles to software development, transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman presented in 2002 at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html
Software Patent Institute
http://spi.org/
Patent Fail: In Defense of Innovation, Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/patent
Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming, Mark Lemley
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/ipsc/Paper%20PDF/Lemley,%20Mark%20-%20Paper.pdf
Defend Innovation: Open Up the Patent Granting Process
https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/open-patent-granting-process
Are Software Patents Evil? Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. 112-29
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/20110916-pub-l112-29.pdf
The America Invents Act 500 Expanded: Effects of Patent Monetization Entities
University of California Hastings College of Law Professor Robin Feldman
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2247195
Software Patent Institute
http://spi.org/
Design Innovation: A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/open-patent-granting-process?page=1
II. Software Patentability
American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/law/aipa/
Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002
http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property_and_High_Technology_Technical_Amendments_Act_of_2002
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/20110916-pub-l112-29.pdf
US patent chief to software patent critics: “Give it a rest already,” Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/us-patent-chief-to-software-patent-critics-give-it-a-rest-already/
Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system?, Declan McCullogh, CNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57496747-38/google-time-to-ditch-our-current-software-patent-system/
Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them, Richard Stallman, Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents/
Defend Innovation: A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/open-patent-granting-process?page=1
IV. Software-Patent Notice and Discoverability
Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Eighth Edition, August 2001
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/
MPEP 2181: Identifying a 35 U.S.C. 112, Sixth Paragraph Limitation [R-9]
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2181.html#d0e219279
35 U.S.C. 112: Specification
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9015-appx-l.html#d0e302824
V. Federal Statutes & Regulations
USCS Const. Art. I § 8, cl. 8
http://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm#a1_sec8
35 USCS § 1
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partI-chap1-sec1.pdf
35 USCS § 101
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap10-sec101.pdf
35 USCS § 102
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap10-sec102.pdf
35 USCS § 103
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title35/pdf/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap10-sec103.pdf
35 USCS § 112
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/USCODE-2011-title35/USCODE-2011-title35-partII-chap11-sec112/content-detail.html
Patent Act of 1952, ch 950, § 1, 66 Stat. 792 (codified into 35 USCS)
http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/lipa/patents/patentact.asp
American Inventors Protection Act, Pub. L. 106-113
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/law/aipa/
Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107-273 http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property_and_High_Technology_Technical_Amendments_Act_of_2002
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. 112-29
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/20110916-pub-l112-29.pdf
PATENT REGULATIONS, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 37, Part 1- Patents
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/consolidated_rules.pdf
VI. Secondary Sources
Summary of America Invents Act, National Law Review
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/summary-america-invents-act
IP: New Weapons in the War Against Bad Patents, InsideCounsel
http://www.insidecounsel.com/2012/10/16/ip-new-weapons-in-the-war-against-bad-patents
The Broken Patent System: How We Got Here and How to Fix It, The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/
Are Software Patents Evil?, Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
The History of Software Patents: From Benson, Flook, and Diehr to Bilski and Mayo v. Prometheus, BitLaw
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html
USPTO Software Partnership, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/software_partnership.jsp
Software Patents: Obstacles to Software Development, Open Software Foundation
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.html
Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere 'Mental Processes', Mike Masnick, TechDirt
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110817/03120415557/court-ruling-opens-door-to-rejecting-many-software-patents-as-being-mere-mental-processes.shtml
Patent Act of 1952: Standard of Proof, Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership, Harvard Law Review, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 351 (2011)
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/125/november11/Leading_Case_8558.php
What the i4i-Microsoft Patent Case Means for Software Users, Dennis O’Reilly, CNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-20070828-68/what-the-i4i-microsoft-patent-case-means-for-software-users/
Patently Absurd, Simson L. Garfinkel, Wired Magazine (2.07)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.07/patents.html
History of Software Patents III: In re Alappat
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/11/01/history-of-software-patents-iii-in-re-alappat/id=7059/
Why Protect Software Through Patents, BitLaw
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/why-patent.html
Patents for Software-Related Inventions, Jeffrey R. Kuester and Ann K. Moceyunas
http://www.kuesterlaw.com/swpat.html
Software patents – Obstacles to software development, transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman presented in 2002 at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html
Software Patent Institute
http://spi.org/
Patent Fail: In Defense of Innovation, Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/patent
Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming, Mark Lemley
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/ipsc/Paper%20PDF/Lemley,%20Mark%20-%20Paper.pdf
Defend Innovation: Open Up the Patent Granting Process
https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/open-patent-granting-process
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