When Lawyers are writing your Press Release... redhat
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| American lawyers. They have destroyed the Capitalism and the
| innovation.
|
| The good news is that Red Hat's customers don't read this kind
| of attorney gibberish, so they are not aware that you can't trust
| what Red Hat says.
|
| If all the major American companies will start having this kind
| of disclaimers, then it's better to sign contracts with European
| ones.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2727&from=rss
Related:
Small Businesses Call for Patent Reform
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| Small business owners pleaded Thursday for an overhaul of the U.S.
| patent system they say unfairly favors corporate titans who can
| afford lengthy approvals time and expensive litigation to protect
| patents.
|
| [...]
|
| Riley also blamed part of the backlog on tech giants, such as Microsoft
| and others. He said they face a "litigation crisis" because they focus
| on making incremental improvements to existing inventions and "stomp
| all over" the individual inventors and small businesses that are
| innovating.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070329/small_business_patent_reform.html?.v=1
Tech companies, investors clash over patent law
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| Large technology players such as Oracle, Microsoft and eBay have
| lamented what some call a "broken" U.S. patent system prone to the
| rise of so-called "trolls" who sit on broad or obvious patents to
| extort exorbitant settlements from deep-pocketed companies like theirs.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6171866.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/yqan8x
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
Commerce Secretary names Schramm to innovation panel
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| He will be part of a lineup that includes the Microsoft Corp. CEO
| Steve Ballmer, 3M CEO George Buckley, UPS Chairman and CEO Michael Eskew,
| IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano and Wal-Mart Stores Vice Chairman John
| Menzer.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/061206/1386414.html?.v=2
US 'no longer technology king'
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| The US has lost its position as the world's primary engine of technology
| innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
|
| The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the
| impact of technology on the development of nations.
|
| A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| in the US prompted the fall, the report said.
|
| The top spot went for the first time to Denmark, followed by Sweden.
|
| Innovation
|
| [...]
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6502725.stm
System, method and program product for community review of documents
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| Abstract: A system, method and program product for providing for
| the review of documents by a community...
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http://www.patentdebate.com/PATAPP/20060218491?scache=22881039&spg=1
IP ant and IP grasshopper
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| Politicians jump to praise IP and courts endorse it because, they
| think, it's the only way to reward invention and keep innovation going.
|
| [...]
|
| The idea that the world would pay Verizon an IP tax on common
| Internet standards is absurd. It's just another way to keep the
| U.S. phone network marching backward, and assure that the
| Internet's future is made in Asia.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=949
Where will innovation come from?
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| O'Rourke turns to Worldmapper, a tool created by geographers at
| the University of Sheffield (UK). Basically, it shows maps of
| the world - national boundaries intact - that show nations as
| fat or skinny based on how they stack up in terms of population,
| R&D expenditures, or whatever data you plug into them.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/where_will_inno.html
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