Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty
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| In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the
| Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the
| University a worldwide license to make each faculty member’s scholarly
| articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided
| that the articles are not sold for a profit.
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.14/99-fasvote.html
Stakeholders inch toward final deal on patent reform, but rifts remain
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| Universities and colleges have also watched the debate closely and last week
| complained that their position was being misinterpreted by a rival coalition.
| In a letter Feb. 5 to Leahy and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the Judiciary
| Committee's ranking member, the American Association of Universities (AAU)
| said a document distributed by the Coalition for Patent Fairness
| (CPF) "seriously misrepresents university views." The CPF, an alliance of
| several tech giants, indicated that academics were fully behind the bill as
| now written. However, AAU Executive Vice President John Vaughn wrote, "That
| is not so."
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http://thehill.com/business--lobby/stakeholders-inch-toward-final-deal-on-patent-reform-but-rifts-remain-2008-02-13.html
"If it [the timing of the donation] had anything to do with the antitrust case,
we would have told someone."
--Ms. Stonifer, director William H. Gates Foundation
Related and recent:
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
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| Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by
| its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Related:
U.S. Patent Office gets funding increase
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| he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has received a budget increase of
| about 9 percent for the government's 2008 fiscal year, prompting praise from
| some tech groups.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/010308-us-patent-office-gets-funding.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Digg And Others Sued For Infringing Infamous Computer Solitaire Patent
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| However, perhaps the most interesting is the third case discussed by the
| Troll Tracker. It involves the somewhat infamous patents of Sheldon Goldberg,
| which got plenty of attention back in 2004 when he started claiming that
| computer solitaire was covered by his patents. The two key patents are for a
| network gaming system and a method for playing games on a network.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080104/025253.shtml
Yahoo Patent Troll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFUSHwRXJE
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
|
| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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