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Contents 1 Additional Material - Patents 1.1 Eben Moglen - Patents at a Crossroads: Bilski and Beyond 1.2 Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (CAFC) 1.3 The Subject Matter Trilogy 1.3.1 Gottschalk v. Benson 1.3.2 Parker v. Flook 1.3.3 Diamond v. Diehr 1.4 Research 1.4.1 Medey v Duke University 1.5 Press Articles 1.6 Eliminating Software Patents

Additional Material - Patents

Eben Moglen - Patents at a Crossroads: Bilski and Beyond

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPzpBn-XGxw

Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (CAFC)

• http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/

• Judges Biographies
• http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judgbios.html

The Subject Matter Trilogy

Gottschalk v. Benson

Parker v. Flook

Diamond v. Diehr

• http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=450&invol=175
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_v._Diehr
• Oral Argument before the Supreme Court
  • http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1980/1980_79_1112/argument

Research

Medey v Duke University

• http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/2002Madeyedit.html

Press Articles

• "Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation"
  • by Gordon Crovitz
  • Wall Street Journal
  • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121599469382949593.html

• "Inventing a better Patent System"
  • by Robert C. Pozen
  • New York Times
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/opinion/17pozen.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=patents&st=cse

• "A Patent Lie"
  • by Timothy Lee
  • New York Times
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html?sq=patent%20magazine&st=nyt&adxnnl=1&scp=14&adxnnlx=1259352021-k6tZDf5oHzW5szAA+M9oXQ

Eliminating Software Patents

The following organizations are actively engaged in eliminating Software Patents

• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure : (http://www.ffii.org)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation : (http://www.eff.org)
• Free Software Foundation : (http://www.fsf.org)
• Students for Free Culture : (http://freeculture.org)