Žiga Turk: Europe must support 'creative economy'
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| The EU's 'Lisbon' goals of boosting R&D and scientific innovation are
| just "part of the story", Slovenia's Minister for Growth Ziga Turk told
| EurActiv in an exclusive interview. He believes the EU can make use of its
| global lead in fine arts to develop new products and services ahead of its
| competitors – but only if it makes progress on intellectual property and IT
| infrastructure.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/innovation/iga-turk-europe-support-creative-economy/article-170898
EU presidency moves to kick-start Community patent talks
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| Not content with seeking to get consensus on the creation of a pan-European
| patent jurisdiction, the EU presidency, in the shape of the Slovenian
| government, is also attempting to reopen serious discussion on the creation
| of the Community patent.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=87a619cd-6143-46ec-9d6b-850abaea89f7
Microsoft sent its lobbying arms and Brainwash Machine to do some 'jobs' in
Europe. People just ought to resist this BS, which is ruining the American
industry already (patent trolling, patent Armageddon, time wasted reviewing
and applying for patents).
Days ago:
Dublin firm dispels European patent myth
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| O’Connor is a leading expert on European software patents and explained to
| his audience, which comprised 250 technology transfer and intellectual
| property experts from a range of companies and universities including Yahoo!,
| Microsoft, MIT, UC Berkeley and Stanford, why software patent applications
| fail in Europe, and what needs to be done to resolve these problems.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10510
Intellectual property: Patent progress
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| The problem arose because the EPC and the derivative UK Patents Act excluded
| from patentability “methods of doing business and computer programs ‘as
| such’”. It took a number of stages to get a consistent interpretation of what
| was allowed. The problem arose because a computer program is often a
| convenient way of implementing a set of instructions which produce a
| technical advance (technical effect in patent-speak). Early on it was decided
| both in the EPO and in the UK courts that where the computer program is used
| to implement a method which produces a technical advantage, the process would
| be patentable.
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http://www.legalweek.com/Navigation/32/Articles/1105782/Intellectual+property+Patent+progress.html
EU Microsoft judge fears decision may hurt investment
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| The chief judge in the landmark European Microsoft antitrust case highlighted
| the doubts of critics on Wednesday, saying in his first public comments on
| the decision he hopes it will not discourage investors.
| The 13-judge Grand Chamber of the European Union's second highest court
| handed down a sweeping ruling in September, upholding a tough European
| Commission decision saying Microsoft abused its dominance of PC operating
| systems to crush rivals. It also endorsed a 497-million euro fine.
|
| [...]
|
| Vesterdorf said that many critics believe the decision weakened patent law
| and the rights of patent holders to do as they wished with their intellectual
| property.
| There was no doubt that the CFI had significantly enhanced the authority of
| the European Commission beyond its rulings earlier cases, he said, giving
| it "a wide margin of appreciation."
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-46648/guardian:eu-microsoft-judge-fears-decision-may-hurt-investment
Related:
Software Group Lobbied on Patents
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| The Business Software Alliance, whose members include Microsoft Corp. and
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Adobe Systems Inc., paid Emery Simon $260,000 in 2007 to lobby the federal
| government.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080228/business_software_alliance_lobbying.html?.v=1
Technology’s Hottest Product? Patent Litigation
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| The Wall Street Journal’s Sara Silver takes a look today at Visto Corp., the
| company that last Friday sued Research in Motion for patent infringement. RIM
| returned the favor on Monday, suing Visto on the same grounds.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/05/04/technologys-hottest-product-patent-litigation/
More patent money wasted on fighting over where to sue
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| The same problem exists for trade marks and designs, but the frequency with
| which jurisdictional tussles and applications for stays occur seems to the
| IPKat to be very much lower. Does anyone know why? Merpel is disappointed
| that the English courts won't have a chance, at least this time, to rule on
| whether there had been an abuse of process in bringing the action in Italy.
| That would have been fun.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-patent-money-wasted-on-fighting.html
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