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@btilly In district court, the jury identified copyright infringement, was hung on fair use (which means that this would have to be determined by a new jury if the relevant code is…

@btilly My articles on how the lawsuit was going weren't "inaccurate". The district judge ruled against the copyrightability of the declaring code Oracle asserted, and that decisio…

Yes, European-style "as such" exclusion, a bit clarified but still the same basic idea. Lexology writes this about today's decision: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b…

You're right on. There's a WTO treaty on the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and it requires patents to be available in all fields of technology. See…

They say they've adopted UK case law, which they claim is more restrictive than the overall European practice, but even under UK rules, hundreds of thousands of European software p…

Not so fast. Spin doctoring is no substitute for substance. As Caesar used to say, "fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt" (people are ready to believe what they want to be …