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ValueClick Sues Tacoda Over Behavioral Targeting Patents
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| Another test of patent reform, perhaps
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| A technology slap-fight headed to the California court rooms in Los Angeles
| as ValueClick accused Tacoda of infringing on its patents.
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| The issues of behavioral targeting go beyond the usual concerns about privacy
| and consumer tracking. At the core of the approach to presenting advertising
| to people based on their online habits comes the practice of behavioral
| targeting.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/05/valueclick-sues-tacoda-over-behavioral-targeting-patents
There are similar junk patents going on auction in eBay. The USPTO becomes some
sort of a harbour for abuse. The system is corrupt by design (of those who
deform it).
Major Internet Companies Agree On China Code Of Conduct
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| Chinese Internet users cannot access Web sites that contain information that
| is critical of the country's Communist government and have their Internet
| activity heavily monitored.
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| Durbin said Google, Yahoo and Microsoft should keep working on the code of
| conduct and should not wait to complete it.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/05/major-internet-companies-agree-on-china-code-of-conduct
Recent:
Caught in the ACTA
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| Politicans remain the ultimate dinosaurs in terms of openness: ideally, the
| rich and powerful would like to make their cosy deals - often aimed at that
| dangerous openness - behind closed doors.
|
| [...]
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| This secret agreement, drawn up without any public discussion or oversight,
| would basically impose all of the worst aspects of US intellectual monopolies
| on everyone in sight - starting with willing stooges like the UK, and
| progressing to the unwilling but powerless.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/caught-in-acta.html
[ffii] McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty
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| Brussels, 13 May 2008 -- European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a
| bilateral patent treaty with the United States. This Tuesday 13 May in
| Brussels, White House and European representatives will try to adopt a
| tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of
| the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on
| software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.
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| "TEC talks are the current push for software patents. The US want to
| eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The
| bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the
| Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look
| who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single
| European SME in there", says Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent
| policy specialist.
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| The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) which comprises EU and US high
| level representatives put a substantive harmonisation of patent law on
| its agenda. Substantive patent law covers what is patentable or not. The
| attempt to impose the low US standards on Europe via the Substantive
| Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) process utterly failed at the World
| Intellectual Property Organisation. Also progress in the WIPO B+
| subgroup (without development nations) could not be reached.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282000/
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