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[News] Report: Patent System is in Ruins

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Landmark study reports breakdown in biotech patent system

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| The world's intellectual property system is broken. It's stopping lifesaving 
| technologies from reaching the people who need them most in developed and 
| developing countries, according to the authors of a report released in Ottawa 
| today by an international coalition of experts.   
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http://www.physorg.com/news140178906.html


Recent:

Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation

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| Our patent system for most innovations has become patently absurd. It's a
| disincentive at a time when we expect software and other technology companies
| to be the growth engine of the economy. Imagine how much more productive our
| information-driven economy would be if the patent system lived up to the
| intention of the Founders, by encouraging progress instead of suppressing it.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121599469382949593.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Related:

Who is the world's biggest patent troll?

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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."  
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Playing Microsoft Patent Poker

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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.    
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| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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