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Cash prizes offered for patent-busting evidence
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| Information gathered from bounty winners will be used in two ways. It may be
| sold, either to a patent owner wishing to strengthen or replace a weak
| patent, or to a competitor.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16059
"Don’t encourage new, cross-platform Java classes, especially don’t help get
great Win 32 implementations written/deployed. (..) Do encourage fragmentation
of the Java classlib space."
--Ben Slivka, Microsoft
Recent:
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| Staff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization
| of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to
| make more money.
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| One of the ways that the EPO has done this is by issuing software patents in
| defiance of the treaty that set it up.
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http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#24%20September%202008%20%28Patent%20Office%20on%20Strike%29
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