We are talking serious below-the-belt punching here. The following appears on the last page of Microsoft's brief:
Likewise, the district judge's apparent decision to read letters he received
from the public during trial, some of which he described as "thoughtful pieces by people who
were vitally interested in the case," Sarah Jackson-Han, Father in Law, DARTMOUTH ALUMNI
MAG., Nov./Dec. 2000, at 44, was a flagrant violation of Canon 3(A)(4) of the Code of Conduct.
Sarah Jackson-Han happens to be Judge Jackson's daughter, a journalist with Agence France-Presse (the French Associated Press). Impeaching the judge with his own daughter's article is pretty rough play.
If we understand an "advance in the art of computer software" to be an expansion in the set of problem instances that can be solved using existing computer hardware, then computational complexity theory supplies the necessary organizing principle for software patent law. For details, see my recent law review article, "Computational Complexity and the Scope of Software Patents," which appeared in the American Bar Association's JURIMETRICS journal.
If software patent law is to be reformed, computer science must point the way.
My article, "Computational Complexity and the Scope of Software Patents," which appeared in a 1998 American Bar Association law journal, proposes a new legal doctrine that would bring computer science into the patentability analysis. Please have a look.
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If you're on Facebook, there is a new group in support of the EC's case against Microsoft. -- Please join and invite your friends!
If you're on Facebook, there is a new group in support of the EC's case against Microsoft. -- Please join and invite your friends!
If you're on Facebook, there is a new group in support of the EC's case against Microsoft. -- Please join and invite your friends!
If you're on Facebook, there is a new group in support of the EC's case against Microsoft. -- Please join and invite your friends!
Judge Kotelly was a Clinton appointee.
We are talking serious below-the-belt punching here. The following appears on the last page of Microsoft's brief: Likewise, the district judge's apparent decision to read letters he received from the public during trial, some of which he described as "thoughtful pieces by people who were vitally interested in the case," Sarah Jackson-Han, Father in Law, DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAG., Nov./Dec. 2000, at 44, was a flagrant violation of Canon 3(A)(4) of the Code of Conduct. Sarah Jackson-Han happens to be Judge Jackson's daughter, a journalist with Agence France-Presse (the French Associated Press). Impeaching the judge with his own daughter's article is pretty rough play.
The article is now online at http://democracyweb.com/law/software.htm.
If we understand an "advance in the art of computer software" to be an expansion in the set of problem instances that can be solved using existing computer hardware, then computational complexity theory supplies the necessary organizing principle for software patent law. For details, see my recent law review article, "Computational Complexity and the Scope of Software Patents," which appeared in the American Bar Association's JURIMETRICS journal.
If software patent law is to be reformed, computer science must point the way.
My article, "Computational Complexity and the Scope of Software Patents," which appeared in a 1998 American Bar Association law journal, proposes a new legal doctrine that would bring computer science into the patentability analysis. Please have a look.
http://democracyweb.com/law