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[News] Patent Reform Could Rob Large Companies from Benefits

Ruling Seen as Giving an Edge to Challengers of Patents

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| ....shift power in the courtroom from bigger patent-owning companies
| to smaller start-up companies that rely on obtaining licenses for
| patented technology. The court's 8-to-1 decision [MedImmune Inc. v.
| Genentech Inc.] held that the holder of a patent license can sue to
| challenge the patent's validity without first refusing to pay
| royalties and putting itself in breach of the license agreement.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/washington/10scotus.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

High Court Ruling Could Spark Surge in Patent Challenges

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| Badke, who worked on the case for MedImmune at an earlier stage,
| says that in the long run, the ruling will help clear out invalid
| patents that impede innovations in areas like biotech and software.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168336930333


Related:

Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses

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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
|
| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end
| only those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html


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