Inventors protest patent reform bill
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| About 20 inventors and U.S. company executives, visiting Washington, D.C.,
| encouraged Congress to defeat the Patent Reform Act, a version of which
| passed the House of Representatives earlier this month. The Senate has not
| yet voted on its version of the bill.
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http://www.itworld.com/Man/2687/070920patent/index.html
Segway Inventor Raps Patent Reform Bill
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| Strong patents make it harder for larger firms to copy inventions by
| individuals and small firms without compensation, Kamen said. Innovators rely
| on licensing fees from large firms to finance research.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070920/patents_startups.html?.v=1
Related:
Software patents not GPL3 to kill open source?
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| Anyway, I think Stallman's ideas, though at times inflammatory, are
| definitely worth a few minutes, perhaps while you put those finishing touches
| on your "Mouse Pad for Lefties" patent submission.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/09/software_patent.html?source=rss
EFF Challenges Bogus Patent on Internet Subdomains
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is challenging a bogus patent on
| Internet subdomains that has been used to threaten small businesses and
| innovators.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/11300/eff-challenges-bogus-patent-internet-subdomains
EU accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'
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| European Union regulators have charged Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse,
| alleging the memory chip designer demanded "unreasonable" royalties for its
| patents that were fraudulently set as industry standards.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_hi_te/eu_rambus_patent_ambush
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
Open Source Patents
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| Nice, creative idea. But note a few things. First, the OIN patent pooling
| approach relies on the patent monopoly to work, since the potential threat of
| a patent infringement lawsuit is what induces third parties to enter into the
| OIN license (on the other hand, without the patent monopoly, there would be
| no reason for OIN to exist).
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| [...]
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| In other words, it's similar to the situation that would exist in the absence
| of IP--without all the effort and waste to get a bunch of flaccid scraps of
| paper.
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/007126.asp
When Patents Threaten Science
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| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
| nature, or mathematical formulas.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395
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