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Methods and madness
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| ...the court took the unusual step of calling for the parties, and anyone
| else with an interest in the case, to address not only whether the patent
| should be granted, but also whether the court should overturn the 1998 case
| in which it first held that business-methods patents could be awarded.
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http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11332744
MEPs back sports 'intellectual property' landgrab
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| Iain Connor, an intellectual property partner at law firm Pinsent Masons,
| said: "A football match is not a performance for the purposes of copyright
| because you can't reproduce it. It isn't choreographed."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/sport_ioc_intellectual_property/
Recent:
Red Hat Says U.S. Patent System Is Broken
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| This week Red Hat filed with the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to
| carefully examine the state of software patents in the country. According to
| Red Hat, a company ripe with support for open source software, software
| patents are being issued at an alarming rate, and many of them are obvious
| ideas that should not have passed the patent desk to begin with.
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http://www.tomsguide.com/us/redhat-patent-lawsuit,news-961.html
Related:
Opinion: behind the Acacia suit
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| It's a neat structure. Pump money into Acacia so it can attack Red Hat, and
| at the same time prove to the world how strong the Microsoft patent shield
| really is against those naughty, naughty trolls.
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| If this works with Acacia, perhaps we can expect a scaled-up attack by
| Intellectual Ventures on Linux users like Google and IBM.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-24106/opinion:behind-the-acacia-suit
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