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.
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| 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
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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.
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| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
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| 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
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| 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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