Android: Samsung to pay royalties to Microsoft - The H Open Source: News and Features

Android: Samsung to pay royalties to Microsoft - The H Open Source: News and Features

Google buys another thousand IBM patents - The H Open Source: News and Features

Google buys another thousand IBM patents - The H Open Source: News and Features: Google expands its patent armoury again, purchasing another thousand patents from IBM covering mobile, search, enterprise Java and scripting

Acer and ViewSonic do Android patent deal with Microsoft - The H Open Source: News and Features

Acer and ViewSonic do Android patent deal with Microsoft - The H Open Source: News and Features

Google attacks Lodsys patents - The H Open Source: News and Features

Google attacks Lodsys patents - The H Open Source: News and Features: "Google has applied to the US Patent Office for the re-examination of two patents owned by Lodsys. The company is currently taking action against several developers of mobile applications for patent infringement"

Google accuses Apple, Oracle and Microsoft of an Android patent war - The H Open Source: News and Features

Google accuses Apple, Oracle and Microsoft of an Android patent war - The H Open Source: News and Features

DHH on patents

David Heinemeier Hansson in a tweet:

The standard for patents should be: Would this product not exist without protection? Maybe Viagra wouldn't, but the iPad sure would.

"nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices", Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas ~ Moving to Freedom

Found in a tweet by David Heinemeier Hansson.