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1 Software Patents: Solutions for Developers Deb Nicholson Linuxcon Europe

2 The Big Picture

3 Patents, Products, or Ideas?

4 functional claiming

5 What is currently patentable in the US?

6 - Patentable subject matter: new and useful, no algorithms

7 - Patentable subject matter: new and useful, no algorithms - Novel: you can't patent something people are already using

8 - Patentable subject matter: new and useful, no algorithms - Novel: you can't patent something people are already using - Non-obvious: it can't be obvious to someone in that field

9 - Patentable subject matter: new and useful, no algorithms - Novel: you can't patent something people are already using - Non-obvious: it can't be obvious to someone in that field - Useful: must have utility and be possible

10 Measuring innovation

11 The US Patent Office is granting 40,000 new software patents each year. (Source: A Generation of Software Patents, by James Bessen, 2011 )

12 Two Types of Threats

13 Un-spoiler alert - Patent suits are costing us a lot of money - Activity is increasing, not decreasing - Lawsuits aren't spurring innovation - Developers are fed up

14 Trolls

15 ...annual wealth lost from NPE lawsuits was about $80 billion... (Bessen et al. 2011)

16 Patent suits involving NPEs Source: PatentFreedom Data captured as of January 18, 2013.

17 "...patent trolls... are increasingly targeting users and adopters, rather than makers of the technology: this tactic is used an estimated 40% of the time." Colleen V. Chien: Tailoring the Patent System to Work for Software and Technology Patents

18 1,300 shell companies at Intellectual Ventures

19 Strategic Aggressors

20 Avoiding thickets, rewriting code and pulling features out is time-consuming and un-fun for developers.

21 A headache even if you don't get sued.

22 Suits deep at the stack level deter innovation

23 Parallel Filing Patents Development

24 Thinking Globally

25 Where do you want your code to go?

26 Certainty

27 Harmonisation

28 Can't you guys fix it?

29 Courts are a black box

30 ...and expensive

31 Congress

32 ...also ain't cheap

33 Policy change at the United States Patent and Trade Office?

34 The USPTO could treat software patents differently

35 Require applicants to provide written descriptions and definiteness

36 Another pair of eyes

37

38 Increased transparency

39 Make losers pay litigation fees

40 Let the Federal Trade Commission go after trolls?

41 Bad for Trolls

42 Strategic aggressors may not be curtailed.

43 What can we as developers do?

44 Defensive Strategies Patent Pool Non-Assert Covenant Scorched Earth (Defensive Filing) Modern Software License Patents Threatening Your Software

45 Strength through Community

46 The bad news Patent validity is not important Patents == a chilling effect on development Your international customers can be sued Future intellectual property treaties

47 What you can do about it Use a software license that mentions patents Defensive filing Linuxdefenders.org can help Join a defensive patent pool Open Invention Network Which is also a non-assertion agreement

48 For your reading "pleasure" Colleen V. Chien: Reforming Software Patents (Houston Law Review) Tom Ewing & Robin Feldman: The Giants Among Us (Stanford Law Review) Dan L. Burk & Mark A. Lemley: The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It

49 Picture Credits CC-BY You Sunk My Battleship! by Derek Gavey, Ruler by Sterlic Grinding Sausage by Rachel Tayse, Natural Bonsai by Lars Andreas Lindstol, Feeding Turtles by Ollie Crafoord, SCOTUS Stairs by Phil Roeder, Overview by jcbmac, Trust Fall by Vos Efx Road by Bonsai Forest by Kathryn CC-BY-SA Lightbulb by eoin, Wet Grass by qgil Courtesy of Simon Phipps; Sydney Opera House, Parallel Filing and Defensive Strategies Charts President Barack Obama; Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Graphs source: PatentFreedom Data captured as of January 18, 2013

50 Thanks!

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