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Sun fights to invalidate the Firestar patent (they're almost there)
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| It's not that Sun has better lawyers than Red Hat. It's that Sun has better
| top management than Red Hat! The #1 Linux company gave the wrong message to
| the community, going for petty deals and thinking "wow, we're great because
| we did better than Novell!". Red Hat is a shame, period. They were simply
| feeding the trolls — it's the same as when you simply pay the protection tax
| to the Mafia instead of calling the police and trying to fight with the
| evildoers.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/07/13/20/22/20-sun-fights-to-invalidate-the-fir
Patent: 6,264,560 - USPTO grants re-exam request
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| The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office agreed to re-examine online-gaming
| patent 6,264,560 after the Electronic Frontier Foundation challenged it on
| the grounds that the technology covered by the patent had been used
| extensively before it was issued.
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http://wowgoldeu.hipbloggers.com/2008/07/12/patent-6264560-uspto-grants-re-exam-request/
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
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