Slovenia, France build pressure for Community Patent
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| “This is a long-awaited step in the right direction. We applaud the Member
| States’ decision to push for a Community Patent,” said Jonathan Zuck,
| president of the Association for Competitive Technology, which represents
| small and medium size companies in the EU.
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http://bulletin.sciencebusiness.net/ebulletins/showissue.php3?page=/548/art/10104&ch=1
Shilling son of a...
Microsoft sends this shill (ACT: Zuck and other scum) to do a lot of legwork
these days, e.g.:
Standards Body Weighs Microsoft’s Competing Format For Document Sharing
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| Reactions to the BRM have been mixed. Jonathan Zuck of the Association for
| Competitive Technology, which counts Microsoft as a member and issued a
| statement in support of the standard, said that OOXML is just as deserving as
| ODF of standardisation, as “only OOXML offers full fidelity for storage of
| existing documents” from prior versions of word-processing software.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=938
ACT is a Microsoft lobbying arm.
Related:
Microsoft sets spinners on court verdict
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| Microsoft may have lost in court, but it quickly tried to win the war of
| media reaction via organisations like CompTIA, the Computing Technology
| Industry Association and ACT (the Association for Competitive Technology)
| which both intervened in court on its side.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/reaction_microsoft_verdict/
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
|
| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
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