____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 06 September 2007 14:47 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> House May Vote on Patent Reform Friday
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| "We've spent three Congresses on this," said Steve Elmendorf, a lobbyist
>>| for the Coalition for Patent Fairness, a group of technology companies,
>>| such as Microsoft, Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., that favor the
>>| legislation.
>> `----
>>
>> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070904/patent_reform_house.html?.v=1
>
> Would those names really be doing anything in the public interest? It
> doesn't seem all that likely.
You want them to include small companies?! Are you out of your mind? :-)
US 'Innovation' panel excludes small companies...
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
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
To me, this seems like corruption. Who does one complain to?
>>
>> More new stuff:
>>
>> Getting Back to Patent Application Bug Spraying...
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| For sure I don't want any patents getting approved that might be used
>>| against FOSS someday because I wasn't paying attention. My worry is that
>>| because we have been busy elsewhere, the Microsoft patent submission might
>>| slide by, get approved by default despite there being prior art we
>>| neglected to mention, and then the FUD machine can start up about how it's
>>| now a super strong patent that made it through a FOSS community
>>| examination.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070904192707124
>>
>> Microsoft Win in Court May Cut Chances in Congress
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Microsoft Corp.'s success in reversing a $1.52 billion trial loss was the
>>| latest in a series of court victories that may undermine its chance for
>>| broad changes in U.S. patent law this year.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a2Pj9tY1E1cA&refer=news
>>
>> Broadcom wins antitrust appeal against Qualcomm
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Broadcom's lawsuit accused Qualcomm of breaking a pledge to the standards
>>| board to be fair when licensing patents for technology it owned. That
>>| technology has been adopted as an industry standard to promote
>>| interoperability among handsets and carriers.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6206044.html
>>
>>
>> Recent:
>>
>> Microsoft, Eolas settle patent dispute
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Microsoft has settled a long-running and expensive lawsuit with Eolas
>>| Technologies, a start-up backed by the University of California that
>>| alleged Internet Explorer infringed a patent.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9769483-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>>
>>
>> Microsoft, IBM Sued over Patent Infringement
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| JuxtaComm also has provisional patents for a system and method of managing
>>| and updating data from a number of sources for a project, and for a system
>>| and method of controlling and monitoring an application in a network?
>>| methodologies and software likely used by any number of software vendors.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2177341,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
>>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
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>
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