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Compulsory lobby register moves closer
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| The IT industry has had an often controversial role in lobbying European
| institutions. There was heavy criticism of dodgy campaigns in favour of
| software patents in 2005. In its battle with the European courts Microsoft
| drafted in big companies and even the US government to lobby on its behalf.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/09/eu_lobby_list/
But... but... why are GNU/Linux users so obsessed with Microsoft? Here's just
reason #1001. Microsoft corrupts... in order to ban Free software, its #1
rival.
Patent Troll Myhrvold gets press attention, sadly enough.
Myhrvold Talks Innovation Past and Present
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| Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer of Microsoft... Myhrvold now
| leads Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, Washington, company, which he says
| fosters "invention capital" to help inventors get their products into the
| real world, but critics say it's a "patent troll," buying up patents so it
| can later sue companies that use them.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145704/myhrvold_talks_innovation_past_and_present.html
A British (London-based, IIRC) company called Finjan received a lot of funding
from Microsoft and recently it appeared to be making a push for software
patents in the UK.
Recent:
Jury finds for Finjan in patent suit against Secure Computing
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| A U.S. District Court of Delaware jury has found that Secure Computing, and
| its subsidiaries CyberGuard and Webwasher, infringed three patents that
| Finjan Software created over the past decade.
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| Finjan is partially owned by Microsoft, which purchased a non-exclusive
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| worldwide license for some Finjan patents last year.
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http://www.scmagazineus.com/Jury-finds-for-Finjan-in-patent-suit-against-Secure-Computing/article/107933/
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