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Battle of ideas
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| Chinese companies are enforcing patents against foreign firms
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| FOR over a decade Schneider Electric of France has bombarded a Chinese firm,
| Chint Group, with lawsuits accusing it of copying its technology. But the
| tables turned on April 15th when the two companies settled an infringement
| case—with the French firm forking over $23m to Chint. The rich settlement
| against a foreign firm is a landmark. It serves as a reminder that Chinese
| companies are just as eager to defend patents as Western firms, and that
| China’s intellectual-property regime has been tightened in recent years.
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http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13528318&fsrc=rss
Now scientists can only thank their mighty 'IP' and corrupted, subverted USPTO.
Privatising Public Knowledge Draft Regulations: confusing the public domain and
the commons
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| The phrase ‘or protection through established means’ is the most troubling,
| because it ignores of the decades old success of FOSS, Free Open Source
| Software, in the computer industry, and of the history of science itself
| which regarded knowledge as a commons, until the recent incursion of
| Thatcherite economics. Both of these are more far more ‘established’ than the
| recent American fad for software patents.
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http://aliquidnovi.org/?p=293
Related:
SA minister slams software patents
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| In a taped address for the Idlelo 3 conference, Fraser-Moleketi said
| that “open standards are a critical factor in building interoperable systems
| that are important to governments … In South African we have a document - the
| minimum interoperability standards - which includes the use of open document
| format or ODF.”
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| Fraser-Moleketi pointed out that ODF was adopted as an ISO standard in 2006.
| She said that it was “unfortunate that the leading vendor of proprietary
| office software, which enjoys considerable dominance in the market, chose not
| to participate and support ODF in its products but rather to develop its own
| competing document standard, which is now also awaiting judgement in the ISO
| process.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2304
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