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- Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-announces-broad-expansion-open-source-patent-promise 7 comments
- EFF promising intensified fight against bogus software patents http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/eff-promises-new-fight-against-software-patent-abuse 5 comments
- IBM: Broken Promises and Patent Enforcement http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ibm-breaks-oss-patent-promise-targets-mainframe-emulator.ars 9 comments
- Apple's New DAC Patent Promises Flawless Sound Quality on All Apple Devices by Eliminating One Thing https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/07/apple-patent-dacs-promises-sound-quality/ 198 comments apple
- 'Keep Your Promise': Ady Barkan Urges Biden to Support Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/30/keep-your-promise-ady-barkan-urges-biden-support-covid-19-vaccine-patent-waiver 9 comments politics
- Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals. Here’s What They Hide. — Multibillion-dollar contracts give drug makers liability shields, patent ownership and leeway on delivery dates and pricing — and promises that much of it will not be made public. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/world/europe/vaccine-secret-contracts-prices.html 3 comments indepthstories
- Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals: Multibillion-dollar contracts give drug makers liability shields, patent ownership and leeway on delivery dates and pricing — and promises that much of it will not be made public https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/world/europe/vaccine-secret-contracts-prices.html?action=click&module=top%20stories&pgtype=homepage 17 comments worldnews
- China wants to patent Gilead’s promising coronavirus treatment https://fortune.com/2020/02/05/coronavirus-treatment-china-gilead-patent/ 4 comments worldnews
- Tesla’s New Lithium-Ion Patent Brings Company Closer to Promised 1 Million-Mile Battery https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2020/12/30/teslas-new-lithium-ion-patent-brings-company-closer-to-promised-1-million-mile-battery/#10ee3e5033e3 5 comments technology
- Researchers tested more than 500,000 chemical compounds for their ability to inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier lifecycle stage than most current drugs, finding 631 promising ones that could form the basis for new malaria prevention drugs, which they are making open source and not patented. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/half_a_million_tests_and_many_later_new_buzz_about_a_malaria_prevention_drug 4 comments opensource
- Researchers tested more than 500,000 chemical compounds for their ability to inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier lifecycle stage than most current drugs, finding 631 promising ones that could form the basis for new malaria prevention drugs, which they are making open source and not patented. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/half_a_million_tests_and_many_later_new_buzz_about_a_malaria_prevention_drug 362 comments science
- Microsoft promises to defend—not attack—Linux with its 60,000 patents https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-promises-to-defend-not-attack-linux-with-its-60000-patents/ 483 comments linux
- Microsoft promises to defend—not attack—Linux with its 60,000 patents https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-promises-to-defend-not-attack-linux-with-its-60000-patents/ 20 comments microsoft
- Microsoft promises to defend—not attack—Linux with its 60,000 patents https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-promises-to-defend-not-attack-linux-with-its-60000-patents/ 12 comments technology
- Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-announces-broad-expansion-open-source-patent-promise 4 comments programming
- Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-announces-broad-expansion-open-source-patent-promise 13 comments linux
- Who owns the blockchain? A rush to patent the blockchain is a sign of the technology’s promise [The Economist] http://www.economist.com/news/business/21714395-financial-firms-and-assorted-startups-are-rushing-patent-technology-underlies 5 comments btc
- Who owns the blockchain? A rush to patent the blockchain is a sign of the technology’s promise [The Economist] http://www.economist.com/news/business/21714395-financial-firms-and-assorted-startups-are-rushing-patent-technology-underlies 4 comments ethereum
- New patent promises to lower total cost per Bitcoin mined by approximately 20% http://www.asicboost.com/ 6 comments btc
- Patent US20140282625 - Asynchronous programming model for concurrent workflow scenarios [Looks like someone wants to patent promises!] https://www.google.com/patents/us20140282625 133 comments programming
- The Promise of a Ten Minute Charge, Without Tesla's Patents http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-promise-of-a-10-minute-charge 3 comments technology
- Twitter granted patent on 'pull-to-refresh' and promises to only use it defensively http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350826/twitter-pull-to-refresh-patent-innovators-patent-agreement-announced 71 comments web_design
- Apple patent shows promise in further helping the disabled use iOS devices. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20101563-92/apple-tech-would-help-disabled-use-ios-devices/?tag=mncol 3 comments apple
- How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win Against Google, Sealing Ballmer’s Promise http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/09/vesper/ 14 comments apple
- MS ordered to pay $367.4 million for patent violations to lucent. How good is the imdenity MS promised if lucent goes after windows users next? http://www.reuters.com/article/technologynews/idusn0435406720080404 54 comments programming
- Big pharma gets G8 leaders to tighten drug patents thereby cutting off cheap drugs to people who need them the most even though the G8 leaders had promised to help Africa tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic http://pressesc.com/01181464972_g8_ip_aids_promise_broken 2 comments reddit.com