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Microsoft Sues to Defend Visual Studio Users
This is scary, folks. If you use Microsoft Visual Studio to create web services, you could be subject to lawsuits for patent infringement. Yes, simply using a software program puts your company and livelihood at legal risk, yet another si...
Today is "World Day Against Software Patents"
As currently implemented in the United States, software patents suck. Microsoft's recent patent of page up/down proves by example how flawed the system is. DevTopics supports the protection of intellectual property, but is against the current sof...
Protect Your Software with Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
You've spent thousands of hours developing a new software program. Now how do you ensure that your competitors don't copy your program and steal your market? The sad truth is you can't, as Apple discovered when Microsoft "borrowed" its graphical us...
Brief History of Software Patents
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor for a fixed period of time in exchange for disclosure of an invention. The patent enables the inventor to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing the i...
