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Recent patent infringement cases filed in U.S. District Courts
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| The original complaint alleges defendants Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and
| Aruba Networks infringe the '118 Patent by making, using or selling wireless
| Internet access systems which utilize captive portal techniques to block or
| redirect HTTP requests.
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http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/contentview.asp?c=214075
Rai on Patent Reform
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| Arti K. Rai (Duke University School of Law) has posted Building a Better
| Patent System: Facially Neutral Standards with Disparate Impact (Houston Law
| Review, Vol. 45, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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| Prompted by persistent complaints, particularly from the information and
| communication technology (ICT) industries, about the dangers allegedly
| posed by strong patents of poor quality, both the legislative and
| judicial branches have recently made attempts at patent reform.
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http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2008/08/rai-on-patent-r.html
Software Patents and Current Trends
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| To increase the digital economy in different countries myriad firms engage in
| costly R & D activities to forth innovative software effort due to the fact
| that achievement of competitive help. This paper covers eight countries the
| most developed software industry in the in every respect US and than after
| Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, India, and Israel.
| These countries are having its own standard to grant software Patents, the
| laws followed not later than these countries are distinctly outlined one by
| one.
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http://patentsworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/software-patents-and-current-trends.html
Recent:
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
|
| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
$10K For Microsoft's Club Dues
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| After Microsoft went public with its patent licensing specs the other day, I
| took a closer look at the agreements you have to sign -- and the cash you
| have to fork over. To license patents from any one Microsoft product, you
| need to pay $10,000 up front, no questions asked, on top of per-copy-sold
| duties for your product.
|
| It's about what I expected from Microsoft. Good on them that they allow you
| to peruse and make use of the protocols without charge if you just want to
| work with them privately and not develop something that's going to be
| released to others. But everything outside of that requires payment -- and
| that $10K entry dues per Microsoft product is a great way to keep all of the
| noncommercial open source players out of the game.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/10k_for_microso.html
WIPO patent committee embarks on positive agenda
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| The fact that the WIPO patent committee has decided to request the
| International Bureau studies on “exceptions from patentable subject matter
| and limitations to the rights, inter alia research exemption and compulsory
| licenses” and “patents and standards” is testament that the WIPO of 2008 is
| not the WIPO that invoked “Intellectual Property as a Power tool for
| Development”.
|
| Here below is the Annex to the Summary by the Chair which lists the eighteen
| non-exhaustive list of issues for further elaboration and discussion in the
| future. This list includes such topics as “Economic impact of the patent
| system, Alternative models for innovation, Patents and health (including
| exhaustion, the Doha Declaration and other WTO instruments, patent
| landscaping) and Relation of patents with other public policy issues.”
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http://www.keionline.org/index.php?option=com_jd-wp&Itemid=39&p=124
Open Parliament
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| In private a government delegate compared
| Microsoft's public affairs methods with the scientology cult.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-54634/open-parliament
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