Overview

• Software Patents Wikipedia
• Ladas & Parry Guide to Statutory Protection for Computer Software in the United States Ladas & Parry LLP
• Software Patents League for Programming Freedom
• Software Patent Debate Wikipedia

"Obvious" Patents

• Friendster Wins Patent Red Herring
• U.S. Supreme Court to weigh standards for patent "obviousness" CNet News.com
• Real Software Slams Microsoft's Patent Effort eweek.com

Patent Reform

• Microsoft calls for Patent Reform eweek.com
• The Computer-Shaped Hole in the Patent Reform Act The Brookings Institute
• Patent reform: Who's on first ZDNet

Famous patent controversies

• eBay patent case arrives at Supreme Court ars technica
• The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective Cloanto
• Red Hat faces Hibernate patent infringement claim Computer Business Review Online
• Amazon One-Click Shopping Stanford University

The Darker side of patents

• Patent Troll Wikipedia
• Are Software Patents Evil? Paul Graham

Are Software patents legitimate?

• Software Patents in Europe: A Short Overview Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• No Software Patents! NoSoftwarePatents.com
• Theory and reality for software patents: good in concept, not so good in practice Bioinformatics
• Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation? Union Square Ventures
• The Coming Software Patent Crisis: Can Linux Survive? Linux Journal
• In Defense of Software Patents R.R.Tucci