The relentless underhanded assault against Linux
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| Luckily, we have a heavy hitter on our side, as well. A coalition of
| companies, led by IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony, have created
| the Open Invention Network in order to provide Linux companies legal
| protection against these types of lawsuits.
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http://www.openaddict.com/node/18
When Bullies Rule: A Call For Patent Reform in America
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| For some time now, Microsoft has been accusing the FOSS community of
| violating its patents. FOSS journalists have been calling their bluff for
| about as long. And now the patent armageddon game is on. And we could have
| prevented this all along.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/content/when_bullies_rule_call_patent_reform_america
Fixing a broken patent system
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| It costs millions of dollars in litigation fees to show that a patent should
| not have been granted, and most big corporations have learned that the hard
| way.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9595_22-6212615.html
Some new information here:
More details emerge about Linux patent suit
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| Stephen Walli recently noted that the targets seemed strange when you
| consider the comparative size of Red Hat and Novell’s Linux business. “Why
| not Microsoft? (Acacia went after Apple who settled. Microsoft would seem to
| have deeper pockets than Red Hat or Novell. It would seem to be the more
| interesting business discussion.),” he stated.
|
| Perhaps going after smaller vendors with shallower pockets is the better bet
| if you are litigating against the clock, although it does seem an odd
| decision not to go for the mother lode. Either way, one suspects that if
| Acacia was hoping for a quick settlement it is likely to be disappointed.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/17/more-details-emerge-about-linux-patent-suit/
Related:
We are the World: Globalization, Standards and Intellectual Property Rights
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| On any given day you can find thousands of words of reporting, advocacy and
| debate over the role of patents in technology. One side promotes the
| availability of patent protection as the source of much innovation, while the
| other contends that patents have exactly the opposite effect, and many other
| vices besides.
|
|
| [...]
|
| he issue also includes revised versions of two pieces that have already
| appeared here in the Standards Blog, the first of which (called OOXML, ODF
| and UOF: What's Up in China?) uses the development of UOF and the recent
| defeat of OOXML in China as an example of how developing nations are taking
| action to promote their industries in spite of the efforts of First World
| industries efforts to maintain their primacy.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070928064543343
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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