Miscellaneous LPF Documents
Some of these articles date from the time when the
lpf.org domain name was owned by the LPF,
which is not the case anymore.
- lpf.join
contains a summary of the purpose and activities of
the League, plus a membership form.
- look-and-feel.events
is a summary of recent events in the
news and some messages explaining what the League or the FSF has
done and why. There are also some messages from people explaining
why they joined the League.
- look-and-feel.texinfo
is the League position paper on the
subject of user-interface copyright.
- patents.texinfo
is the draft of a position paper on the
subject of software patents.
-
techrev.patent
is an article by Brian Kahin on the dangers of
software patents, published in Technology Review (March 1990).
- 1970 Harvard article footnote
on copyrights (2938 bytes)
- Artificial Intelligence Patents From 1989
(19835 bytes): by Gregory Aharonian
- Appeal Decision in
Computer Associates International v. Altai (93661 bytes)
- Friend-of-the-court brief
that the LPF filed on behalf of American Multi-Systems, a family business
that was sued by Fortunet for patent infringement.
(35945 bytes)
- Old handout against "look and feel"
lawsuits by Apple, Lotus, Ashton-Tate, and Xerox
(texinfo format, 4478 bytes).
Here is a Postscript version (89900 bytes).
- Old handout on the same subject,
urging a boycott of the four companies (Postscript, 13985 bytes).
- Letter
from RSA to the chair of the House subcommitte on
Technology and Competitiveness (24270 bytes)
- Response from the chairman of
the subcommittee (3327 bytes)
- Biographies of
(former) League Officers and Directors
(texinfo, 3085 bytes)
- Brief Amicus Curiae
submitted by the LPF in Fortunet v. American Multi-Systems (35408 bytes)
- Final Draft of the Law Professor
Amicus Brief for the Lotus v. Borland Case (23850 bytes)
- Appeal decision in Lotus v. Borland
(59672 bytes)
- A Byte Order Patent (4162 bytes):
Using a single standard byte
ordering for transfer of data between machines whose normal byte
ordering is different, if the machines are using a portable operating
system.
Sun was being faced with demands to pay royalties for NFS
- chess-flyer.ps (2085 bytes)
- congress.texinfo (2376 bytes)
- copyrighted-languages.texi (8152 bytes)
- Multimedia and Software Patents
(4871 bytes):
a Nov. 3rd, 1994 article by the LPF re: Compton's rejected
multimedia patent
- demo.final.release (3370 bytes):
A May 24th, 1989 press release about a
demonstration against user interface copyrights outside the
Lotus headquarters.
- Quote from Diamond v. Diehr
(1180 bytes) re: mathematical formulas.
- different-fields (1122 bytes)
- europe.xmail (37369 bytes)
- famous.people (1701 bytes)
- gatt.text (20525 bytes)
- handout.gore.ps (13985 bytes)
- ibm-patents-1week (5683 bytes)
- Article in "Think" magazine (2020 bytes)
about IBM's numerous patents.
- index (98441 bytes)
- index.html (7323 bytes)
- integration.patent (2718 bytes)
- Why Patents Are Bad for Software
(24286 bytes), by Garfinkel, Stallman and Kapor,
from Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 1991
- DVI version (31084 bytes)
- LaTeX source (24527 bytes)
- An opposing reply (7254 bytes)
from Harry F. Manbeck, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks,
Patent and Trademark Office.
Followed by an answer from the authors of the initial article.
- jefferson.quotation (1401 bytes)
- join.dvi (6748 bytes)
- join.latex (6135 bytes)
- join.ps (19979 bytes)
- kapor.testimony (11818 bytes)
- knuth-on-software-patents (1141 bytes)
- laf-fallacies.dvi (55568 bytes)
- laf-fallacies.texi (44854 bytes)
- liberty.ps.Z (101349 bytes)
- look-and-feel.dvi (25892 bytes)
- look-and-feel.events (83206 bytes)
- look-and-feel.ps (100702 bytes)
- look-and-feel.texinfo (19682 bytes)
- look-and-feel.text (20255 bytes)
- lotus-brief.government (37392 bytes)
- lotus.gore.ps (13911 bytes)
- lotus.texinfo (10735 bytes)
- Software Patents:
An Industry At Risk:
Submission by the LPF to the
Patent and Trademark Office (88207 bytes)
On Patent Protection for Software-Related Inventions,
by Gordon Irlam and Ross Williams (January 1994)
- lpf.join (5114 bytes)
- materials.texinfo (2980 bytes)
- mit.announcement (3343 bytes)
- mps-patents.tex (13169 bytes)
- mutual-defense-against-patents (5447 bytes)
- nafta.objs-sugg (51981 bytes)
- natural-right (3772 bytes)
- ndemo (3124 bytes)
- novell.article (5494 bytes)
- oracle.statement (8489 bytes)
- overkill (2195 bytes)
- parcplace.endorsement (2007 bytes)
- patent-list (120993 bytes)
- patent-office.answer (55672 bytes)
- patent-office.report.gz (222705 bytes)
- patent-office.rfc (29151 bytes)
- patent.4856787 (7525 bytes)
- patent.4916610 (5530 bytes)
- patent.4956809 (2501 bytes)
- patent.5083262 (9876 bytes)
- patent.essence (3929 bytes)
- patent.events (18678 bytes)
- patent.games (7525 bytes)
- patents.dvi (43544 bytes)
- patents.ps (166291 bytes)
- patents.texinfo (33228 bytes)
- patents.text (33612 bytes)
- pf1.emailissue (33795 bytes)
- pf2.emailissue (25719 bytes)
- pf3.emailissue (23973 bytes)
- pf4.emailissue (27374 bytes)
- pf5.emailissue (28605 bytes)
- pike.demo (5649 bytes)
- plaintiff.addresses (185 bytes)
- Programming Freedom:
The Electronic Newsletter of The League for Programming Freedom
- protection.texi (1757 bytes)
- recruit.dvi (10144 bytes)
- recruit.texinfo (7939 bytes)
- reply (58312 bytes)
- signs.dvi (2212 bytes)
- signs.texinfo (1610 bytes)
- speakers.texinfo (1610 bytes)
- spi (5465 bytes)
- supreme-court.patents (5502 bytes)
- techrev.patent (21846 bytes)
- texinfo.tex (95043 bytes)
- unnatural-order (6027 bytes)
- Articles by Pamela Samuelson or co-authored by her: