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Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: the next four years
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| Both the United States and the European Union are facing demands to modify
| policies on patents, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property
| protection, coming from different perspectives. There are high profile
| right-owner lobbying efforts directed at higher standards and tougher
| enforcement of intellectual property rights, and growing interest among
| consumer groups, academics and many innovative businesses to protect the
| public domain and retain or even expand user rights. There is also much
| interest in exploring newer approaches to the support of creative and
| inventive communities, that do not rely on notions of exclusive rights.
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http://www.tacd.org/events/patents_2009.htm
The Limits of Abstract Patents in an Intangible Economy
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| Meanwhile, the issue has been resurrected in Europe. Three years after the
| European Parliament rejected a proposed directive after extraordinarily
| contentious debate, the EPO President has asked the Enlarged Board of Appeals
| to determine where and how the line should be drawn on computer programs. The
| UK Intellectual Property Office has announced an economic study of software
| patents to provide input to the EPO. There is also vigorous debate in India,
| centered around patent office interpretation of recent legislation.
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https://xteam.brookings.edu/LAPIE/Pages/home.aspx
Conference on Computer Implemented Inventions
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| The one-day conference is dedicated to exploring the treatment of
| computer-implemented inventions under patent law in Europe, Japan and the
| U.S. Renowned experts – Judges, academic and practitioners – from all three
| jurisdictions will present the case law and praxis of the relevant patent
| offices and courts in the respective jurisdictions, both with regard to the
| particularities of obtaining and enforcing patents for computer implemented
| inventions
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http://www.miplc.de/en/cii/
Recent:
EU accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_hi_te/eu_rambus_patent_ambush
European Patent Office warns of "Global Patent Warming"
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| The European Patent Office (EPO) is warning of "Global Patent Warming" in
| light of the growing number of patent applications it is receiving. At the
| AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété
| Intellectuelle) Congress that closed today in Boston, EPO head Alison
| Brimelow said that the increasing number of patent applications is currently
| the biggest problem that patent offices face and is slowing down the issue of
| patents.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/115941
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