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The DPL Birthday Party!

The Defensive Patent License Birthday Party, held on November 15, 2013, marked the unveiling of the DPL 1.0 to the world. Held at the Internet Archive, an audience of about 50 lawyers, activists, and founders heard the Archive's own Brewster Kahle speak about the broken patent system and the origin of the DPL as a way to solve it.

Profs. Jennifer Urban and Jason Schultz walked through the language of the license, showing how it benefits adopters without sacrificing freedom of movement in the marketplace.

Julie Samuels of the Electronic Frontier Foundation finished the presentation with a

Julie Samuels on Beating The Patent System

Let’s start with the obvious: The patent system . Inventors are ,  are  from the U.S. market to avoid bogus legal threats, and  members that obvious technological improvements might draw lawsuits.

Last year, Congress passed patent reform legislation; . The courts, too, have . The result?  A chill on innovation.

Jennifer Urban on Ending The Software Patent Wars

Welcome to the Software Patent Wars. In recent months, the dormant and somewhat decaying intellectual property arsenals built by technology companies in the 1990s and 2000s for supposedly “defensive” reasons have been deployed. Yahoo! sued Facebook; Oracle sued Google; and Samsung sued Apple. Microsoft and Nokia have also been drawn into the fray. The result is millions of dollars in legal fees and years in court, raising concerns among Silicon Valley innovators that the software patent arms race is beginning to take a costly toll.