On Monday April 17th, Mozilla and Stanford Law are presenting a panel about intellectual property law and the First Amendment. We’ll talk about how IP law and the First Amendment … Read more
What if you couldn’t sell your old car without getting a patent license? What if you couldn’t bring your smartphone into the US without the phone maker’s permission? It would … Read more
A new U.S. Presidential Administration takes office today. While there are many serious issues to tackle and many hard-fought debates to commence, no matter what your political views are, I … Read more
As we have previously written, long term patent terms impede the short innovation cycle and continuous iteration of software development. Innovation is harmed by overbroad software patents that cover large … Read more
Last year, we unveiled the Mozilla Open Software Patent License as part of our Initiative to help limit the negative impacts that patents have on open source software. While those … Read more
In April, I wrote about the challenges the patent system presents to open source software development. I believed then that Mozilla needed to do more by leveraging our mission and … Read more
As we’ve highlighted in the past, we believe that the software patent system is challenging for open source software development. Because of the short innovation cycle and continuous iteration of … Read more