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Vizio Asks FCC to Lower Digital TV Patent Fees
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| HDTV company Vizio is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to
| lower patent fees for digital TVs, claiming they are excessive, unregulated
| and costing consumers more than $1 billion and counting.
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| “This is the great untold story of the transition to digital television,”
| said Amos Snead, spokesman for the Coalition to Terminate Financial Abuses of
| the Television Transmission, or CUT FATT, which Vizio is backing. “Since
| 2007, American consumers have been paying more than 20 to 30 times what
| consumers in Europe and Japan pay in royalties for basically the same
| technologies.
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http://homemediamagazine.com/high-def/vizio-asks-fcc-lower-digital-tv-patent-fees-14234
VIZIO Supports 'CUT FATT' Effort to Reduce Excessive DTV Patent Licensing Fees
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| Asks FCC to hold parties accountable for more than $1 Billion in excess
| charges taken from American consumers and establish new rules for DTV patent
| licensing
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http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/540517.html
Recent:
Economist Critic of Software Patents gets Nobel Prize
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| The FFII congratulates Eric S. Maskin, an economist who has long criticised
| the patenting of software, for receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics.
| Prof. Maskin and two colleagues receive the Prize for research into the
| optimal design of economic mechanisms. By applying his theory to the IT
| sector, Maskin demonstrated "that in such a dynamic industry, patent
| protection may reduce overall innovation and welfare."
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Economist_Critic_of_Software_Patents_gets_Nobel_Prize
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
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| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
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