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OASIS: New IP Policy Makes Room for Open Source
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| In a nod to the open-source community, the Organization for the Advancement
| of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, revises its intellectual
| property policy to include a non-assertion mode, which means standards
| contributors must forgo royalty claims or license rights.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/OASIS-New-IP-Policy-Makes-Room-for-Open-Source-441073/
Recent:
harmfulpatents.org
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| More than 20 years after medical expert systems were first developed, the
| USPTO issued two patents simply on the concept of using a computer to help
| physicians choose medical treatments. A company that purchased these patents
| claims that "the diagnosis and treatment of most chronic diseases will fall
| under the claims of these patents." Already it has filed patent infringement
| suits against seven companies in three years and it threatened to sue a
| university for hosting a freely available HIV database. Perhaps most
| startling of all, that same university -- where much of the seminal research
| on expert systems took place -- entered into a licensing agreement intended
| to limit the use of the HIV database, which had been created by one of its
| own faculty.
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http://www.harmfulpatents.org/
Do Patents Kill? A Strange Twist in the Ramkumar vs Samsung Saga
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| A number of papers report that a death in Chennai could be connected with the
| ongoing Ramkumar vs Samsung (and others) patent litigation, a litigation that
| we have been tracking on this blog.
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http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2009/05/do-patents-kill-strange-twist-in.html
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