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"China Will Reshape International Intellectual Property Policy"
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| I just read a great paper by Andrea Wechsler 'Intellectual Property Law in
| the P.R. China: A powerful Economic Tool for Innovation and Development', Max
| Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research
| Paper No. 09-02, November 12, 2008, download at SSRN here.
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| In 56 pages Ms Wechsler takes you on a journey to see the changing purposes
| in and rationales for international IP protection, the political economy of
| IP protection and the Chinese approach to IP policy in the light of
| international IP law developments.
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http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2009/04/china-will-reshape-international.html
Apple fined $19m in 'Predictive Snooping' case
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| Apple has been ordered to pay $19m (£12.9m/€14.3m) in damages after losing a
| patent infringement case which its lawyers hoped might only cost the firm
| $270,000.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/04/24/apple_opti_ruling/
28 More Companies Sued Over Grouped Toolbars Patent
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| You may recall last summer that we wrote about Gary Odom (as known as Patent
| Hawk) who has been known to stop by our site here to throw around an insult
| or two (nice guy!). It seems that Odom, who had previously worked with
| Microsoft, doing prior art research for its patents, had decided to turn
| around and sue Microsoft for having software toolbars that take different
| toolbar items and group the items together (stunning innovation, there). It
| later turned out that he may have violated his contracts in suing Microsoft.
|
| That case is still ongoing, but why stop with just suing one company?
| Especially when that company is big and has lots of lawyers. Why not sue 28
| other companies over the same patent.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090423/1442174629.shtml
Ah! Innovation. Meanwhile, in some other places, people can actually develop
and compete better.
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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