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Key themes for 2009 - from green patents to the IP marketplace
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| Things are not helped by a Commission that often seems to hold contradictory
| views on IP (although Commissioners are set t be replaced in June 2009). What
| could change things is if European leaders get the bit between their teeth,
| as the seemed to in 2007. With so many other things to worry about, however,
| you have to wonder whether there will be time for patents in 2009.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=3be8a8a6-8752-40e1-8e6c-49eb03094d5d
Seagate found to have infringed patent, but beats lawsuit from Siemens
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| The last two years have seen plenty of patent litigation among storage
| companies, including a battle between Sun Microsystems and NetApp Inc. that
| is still ongoing. However, other patent lawsuits that have made a splash in
| the storage industry, such as Quantum’s suit against Riverbed, have been
| settled out of court or otherwise fizzled like this one. In the Sun case, at
| least one of the patents cited by NetApp in suing Sun has been taken off the
| table by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office due to similar enforcement
| issues. So far the lawsuits are looking like key talking points for those who
| argue the patent system in general badly needs reform.
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http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2009/01/05/seagate-found-to-have-infringed-patent-but-beats-lawsuit-from-siemens/
Related:
Siemens stained by multimillion bribery scandal
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| Hacks there have seen a ruling by a German court which named telco ministers
| in these countries as the lucky recipients of 77 bribes worth an estimated 12
| million Euro.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/16/siemens-shelled-millions
Bribery scandal: Siemens fined 201 million euros
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| All in all payments of about 450 million euros in the Com division had been
| classified as non-tax-deductible, Siemens declared.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/96999/from/rss09
MPs rap BBC over Siemens deal
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| But public spending watchdog the PAC said BBC executives misled the board
| of governors about possible savings while trying to convince them to give
| the deal the go-ahead.
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| The committee of MPs found £60m of costs was excluded when budgets were
| put to the governors for approval.
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| [...]
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| The PAC said the BBC was failing to manage the contract properly.
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| [...]
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| The report suggests the BBC should open up its accounts to government
| officials for proper scrutiny.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/pac_bbc_siemens/
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