U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-ray
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| The U.S. International Trade Commission will launch an investigation into
| Sony and about 30 other companies on possible patent infringements related to
| Blu-ray disc players and other products.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6235128.html
Professor asks trade body to investigate everyone and their mom
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| Columbia University Professor Emeritus Gertrude Neumark Rothschild says 30
| companies are infringing on her patent for laser and light-emitting diodes
| (LEDs). In response, she wants the U.S. government to ban those companies'
| imports to the U.S. that are in violation.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9900659-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Days ago:
SA minister slams software patents
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| In a taped address for the Idlelo 3 conference, Fraser-Moleketi said
| that “open standards are a critical factor in building interoperable systems
| that are important to governments … In South African we have a document - the
| minimum interoperability standards - which includes the use of open document
| format or ODF.”
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| Fraser-Moleketi pointed out that ODF was adopted as an ISO standard in 2006.
| She said that it was “unfortunate that the leading vendor of proprietary
| office software, which enjoys considerable dominance in the market, chose not
| to participate and support ODF in its products but rather to develop its own
| competing document standard, which is now also awaiting judgement in the ISO
| process.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2304
Related:
Technology’s Hottest Product? Patent Litigation
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| The Wall Street Journal’s Sara Silver takes a look today at Visto Corp., the
| company that last Friday sued Research in Motion for patent infringement. RIM
| returned the favor on Monday, suing Visto on the same grounds.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/05/04/technologys-hottest-product-patent-litigation/
More patent money wasted on fighting over where to sue
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| The same problem exists for trade marks and designs, but the frequency with
| which jurisdictional tussles and applications for stays occur seems to the
| IPKat to be very much lower. Does anyone know why? Merpel is disappointed
| that the English courts won't have a chance, at least this time, to rule on
| whether there had been an abuse of process in bringing the action in Italy.
| That would have been fun.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-patent-money-wasted-on-fighting.html
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