IBM Establishes Worldwide Patent Policy to Promote Innovation
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| Inspired by a two-month, online forum involving dozens of experts, IBM
| today formalized a new, groundbreaking corporate policy governing the
| creation and management of patents.
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http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20325.wss
Interpretation here:
IBM Adopts Open Patent Policy
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| IBM clearly hopes that this move will increase pressure on other companies
| to accelerate efforts to improve the quality of software patents, which is
| an issue of interest and concern to a broad audience, and particularly
| those that participate in the development of, or that use,
| open source software.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060926075902953
Related:
Patent review goes Wiki (an Open Source approach)
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| The problem: an epidemic of shoddy patents.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
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