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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> In summary, Microsoft runs overseas to avade patent lawsuits, but at the same
> time it aggressively uses software patents as a weapon.
>
> Microsoft Grabs Korea Patents
>
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>| Redmond accused of stifling Korean developers; Acer changes
>| M&A policy; Sony power adapter overheats; Fuji chair
>| offers 559 kinds of massage.
> `----
>
> http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=19420&hed=Microsoft+Grabs+Korea+Patents
>
>
> Supreme Court To Review Microsoft Patent Case
>
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>| Is Microsoft Liable?
>|
>| Microsoft argued that it had sent one master copy of Windows
>| overseas on a so-called golden disk to be copied onto PCs
>| sold outside the U.S. Microsoft shouldn't be liable for
>| patent infringement for the hundreds of thousands of
>| copies of Windows made from that master disk, its lawyers argued.
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>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127698-c,legalissues/article.html
>
>
> Also yesterday:
>
> WHO to hold public hearings on public health,
> innovation and intellectual property
>
> http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2006/np30/en/index.html
>
>
> Attempt to patent form-filling program rejected
>
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>| "It would have been a disaster if Macrossan was said to
>| be patentable, because every business method under the
>| sun would have been patentable," said Rufus Pollock,
>| director of the Foundation for a Free Information
>| Infrastructure (FFII), a not-for-profit organisation
>| dedicated to the development of information goods
>| for public benefit.
>|
>| The Convention's rules do allow patents to be granted
>| for hardware which has been programmed -- but that
>| condition only exists in select circumstances.
>|
>| Earlier this year, Appeal Court judge Sir Robin Jacob
>| criticised the US for allowing software to be patented.
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> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39284380,00.htm
Expect to see a lot of pressure from the US Government on the WHO now.
How can a foreign organisation possibly interfere with the growth of a
US company...
I really hope the world begins to wake up to what's going on here.
>
>
> Drop Patent, Educause Urges Blackboard
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>| We are sure you are aware of the many blog postings discussing the
>| law suit. Web sites have been established to gather evidence of
>| prior art to refute the patent claims. The expressions we hear
>| range from the vilification of Blackboard, to stories about the
>| cold reception Blackboard is receiving at presentations, to the
>| embarrassment of your employees who are asked to explain
>| this corporate action.
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>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/27/educause
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
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