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Excessive IP protection causes economic gridlock, says expert
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| Intellectual property laws which were designed to protect inventors are
| actually stifling innovation, according to a leading US law academic.
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| Michael Heller, an academic at Columbia University in New York, told
| technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that intellectual property laws are
| being used to stop new products and services being made.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/outlaw_ip_protection/
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.
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| 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
ICC calls on business to understand that IP is now a major political issue
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| That said, there are a number of companies where there is IP awareness. The
| problem here though is that they see the IP system in so many different ways
| and want very different things from it. The recent Patent Reform Act debate
| in the US showed this very clearly. And what it also demonstrated is that
| when IP owners fight among themselves, it leaves very big spaces for people
| with a general anti-IP message to exploit; something that harms all rights
| owners, no matter what side of a specific argument they are on. The same
| thing happened in Europe with regard to the CII Directive and could well
| happen again if there is ever any political agreement on the Community patent
| and the European patent court.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=e4431e82-a26f-48a9-81ef-b5d37edbd39c
$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.
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| 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”.
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| 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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