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[News] George Bush Defends Patent Trolls, Microsoft Escapes Them

  • Subject: [News] George Bush Defends Patent Trolls, Microsoft Escapes Them
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:14:40 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Bush lets Qualcomm ban stand

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| Qualcomm will appeal a ban on imports of mobile devices that use some of its 
| chips, the company said Monday after the Bush administration declined to 
| reverse the ban.  
| 
| The U.S. International Trade Commission imposed the ban in response to 
| patent-infringement claims by Broadcom, a rival communications chipmaker. 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070807/tc_infoworld/90791

Judge overturns $1.5 bln ruling against Microsoft

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| U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster said in a 43-page order that the jury's 
| damages could not stand because Microsoft had not violated one of the two 
| patents related to MP3 music files at the heart of the case.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070806/bs_nm/alcatellucent_microsoft_dc


Related:

Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.

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| Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break 
| up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by
| repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad 
| against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent
| rejection of a complaint by Google.
| 
| [...]
| 
| In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top 
| antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state
| prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by 
| Google that is tied to a consent decree that monitors Microsoft's 
| behavior. Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest 
| operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google's desktop 
| search program, lawyers involved in the case said. 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin


Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket

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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from 
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/


A Patent Lie

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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his 
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how 
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, 
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete 
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will 
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of 
| our profits as they want."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html


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| ...Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols 
| anyone can implement is communism...
|  
| ...Mr. Gates' secret is out now--he too was a "communist;" he, too,
| recognized that software patents were harmful-until Microsoft 
| became one of these giants...
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http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?part=rss&tag=5575731&subj=news.1071.20


Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses

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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
|
| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html

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