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Setting Standards
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| For if anything other than royalty-free terms are adopted, open source is
| effectively locked out – something that Microsoft knows full well, which is
| why it has pushed for “Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing” (RAND).
| At first sight, this appears fair enough – after all, if it is
| non-discriminatory, what's not to like?
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| But the point is that it is not possible for free software programs to
| support even nominal licensing fees, since the unlimited, unchecked
| distribution of code makes it impossible to monitor how much should be paid.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1643&blogid=14
Rambus Redux: The FTC Tries One Last Time (and so do I)
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| This has made its stockholders particularly partisan, as its stock has risen
| and fallen in synchrony with its fortunes in court, and its detractors
| particularly irate, because they view Rambus not only as a patent troll, but
| also as one that has gamed the standards development process during the
| creation of a universally adopted SDRAM memory standard. Hundreds of
| millions, and perhaps billions, of dollars of royalties are at stake.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20081214113930139
Recent:
European Patent Office staff to demonstrate for reforms
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| The international Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) has
| called on the staff of the office to strike on Thursday 18th of September,
| and to demonstrate in Brussels for a reform of its supervisory board. The
| strike and demonstration are timed to coincide with meeting in the Belgian
| capital of the executive of the patent office, under its president Alison
| Brimelow, to seek approaches to a "strategic renovation". The employee
| representatives expect around 300 staff members from the patent offices in
| Munich, Berlin, The Hague and Vienna to attend the protest rally.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/115940
EPO examiners do not trust Brimelow for her quality reforms
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| According to an EPO internal staff survey of June 2008, only 9% of the EPO
| examiners believes that "Brimelow and the Vice-Presidents actively promote
| patent quality". Brimelow is progressing, since Alain Pompidou, the former
| President, had a trust of only 7%.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-89228/epo-examiners-do-not-trust-brimelow-for-her-quality-reforms
Patents – Do you really need them?
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| In the last Venture Capital Journal, Thomas Klein from Wilson Sonsini wrote a
| great article (Actually link doesn't work – this article requires
| subscription) about the diminishing value of patents for early stage
| technology companies. In the short article he quoted 5 recent court decisions
| that have created limited the value of patents. I will not repeat all the 5
| cases that he quotes, but his overall verdict is clear: Leveraging patents in
| the courtroom is becoming harder and harder.
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http://coheda.typepad.com/israel/2008/09/patents-do-you.html
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