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Recent news re: source code, reverse engineering, software patents, patent litigation

2017/02/09 04:44:27 UTC Microsoft Adds Patent Suit Protections For Cloud Customers Offer will help Microsoft distinguish itself from rivals in fast-growing internet-based computing market. “All of our customers are at some level becoming software providers of their own,” … Customers will be able to pick one patent from a pool of 10,000 offered — Microsoft […]

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Recent news re: source code, reverse engineering, software patents, patent litigation

2017/01/22 08:33:26 UTC Predicting Patent Policy Under the Trump Administration | Publications | Shearman & Sterling LLP The America Invents Act (“AIA”), signed into law by President Obama on September 16, 2011, was the biggest legislative overhaul to the United States patent system since the Patent Act of 1952. Among other changes, the AIA moved […]

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Online searching of Apple OSX and iOS binaries

An earlier post notes some examples of “deep indexing” of the textual contents of commercial software products: Such deep indexing of binary code files has been done in some limited areas, such as the superb PDP-10 software archive at http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/ in which files have been extracted from tape images, each file given its own web […]

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