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Patents Don't Promote Innovation: Study
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| It's extraordinary how the myth that patents somehow promote innovation is
| still propagated and widely accepted; and yet there is practically *no*
| empirical evidence that it's true. All the studies that have looked at this
| area rigorously come to quite a different conclusion.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/patents-dont-promote-innovation-study.html
Linux community codes around Microsoft's FAT patents
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| In early 2009, open-source luminary Larry Augustin urged the Linux community
| to "get the FAT out." While Tridgell's approach doesn't quite do this, it
| does appear to obviate Microsoft's patent claims.
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| This should make Linux users happy. Whether it will make Microsoft happy to
| see how trivial it is to code around its patent claims remains to be seen.
| That's the problem with launching nuclear marketing attacks against the legal
| integrity of open-source code: given enough eyeballs, all patent claims are
| shallow.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10278003-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Can FAT patch avoid Microsoft lawsuits?
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| Andrew Tridgell has published a patch that could make the Linux
| implementation of the FAT filesystem impervious to Microsoft patent claims of
| the kind that forced a settlement from TomTom. The patch alters the VFAT code
| so that it does not generate both short and long filenames, says Tridgell.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4980952387.html?kc=rss
Recent:
The True Begetter of Innovation is Openness
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| This work basically shows that recent attempts to introduce intellectual
| monopolies into science in order to "promote innovation" have actually been
| counter-productive.
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| [...]
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| In this context at least, it's openness that leads to more innovation, not
| its polar opposite.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/02/true-begetter-of-innovation-is-openness.html
Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for
biological research
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| Abstract
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| A new survey shows scientists consider the proliferation of intellectual
| property protection to have a strongly negative effect on research.
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| Introduction
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| A system of intellectual property (IP) rights can encourage inventions by
| scientists and help promote the transformation of research achievements into
| marketed products. But associated restrictions on access can reduce
| utilization of inventions by other scientists. How is this trade-off working
| out in practice?
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http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n1/full/nbt0109-36.html
Patent Trolls Are a Symptom of Deeper Problems
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| The reason patent trolling is so profitable is that over the last quarter
| century the courts have expanded patenting into new areas like software and
| business methods, and dramatically lowered the bar for receiving a patent. As
| a result, patents that would have been rejected 30 years ago (like this
| ridiculous patent on removing white space from database entries, which IBM
| received earlier this month) are now routinely approved by the Patent Office.
| As a result, patent trolls are able to buy up low-quality patents by the
| truckload. Even though the vast majority of the patents won’t survive legal
| challenges, defendants can’t take the chance that one of them might survive
| and force the firm into a 8- or 9-figure settlement.
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| Patent trolls make good poster children for the patent system’s dysfunctions,
| but focusing too much on them ignores the fact that abusing the patent system
| is a game played by large companies as well. For example, Verizon managed to
| extort tens of millions of dollars from Vonage to settle a lawsuit over an
| absurdly broad Internet telephony patent. Verizon, of course, isn’t a “patent
| troll,” but a competitor interested in hobbling an up-and-coming competitor.
| Any patent reform needs to address the Verizons of the world too, not just
| the NTPs.
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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/01/17/patent-trolls-are-a-symptom-of-deeper-problems/
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