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US's Global IP Cops Bemoan Anti-IP Activists For Making Their Lives More
Difficult
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| One of our readers, Virginia, alerted us to a report concerning a gathering
| of US IP Attaches (basically, the US gov't's international copyright cops
| that we send around the world to try to enforce draconian IP policy), in
| which they spend most of the time complaining about how countries around the
| world don't agree with the US's view on intellectual property and are quick
| to ignore it when possible. In fact, those countries often don't even want to
| invite their US counterparts to meetings because they're "too aggressively
| pro-IP."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090116/0403073433.shtml
US IP Attachés Take Hard-Line Position On Overseas IP Enforcement
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| Nations ranging from Brazil to Brunei to Russia are failing to properly
| protect the intellectual property assets of US companies and others, and
| international organisations are not doing enough to stop it, seven IP
| attachés to the US Foreign and Commercial Service lamented recently.
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| Meanwhile, an industry group issued detailed recommendations for the incoming
| Obama administration’s changes to the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1387
Recent:
Economist Critic of Software Patents gets Nobel Prize
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| The FFII congratulates Eric S. Maskin, an economist who has long criticised
| the patenting of software, for receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics.
| Prof. Maskin and two colleagues receive the Prize for research into the
| optimal design of economic mechanisms. By applying his theory to the IT
| sector, Maskin demonstrated "that in such a dynamic industry, patent
| protection may reduce overall innovation and welfare."
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Economist_Critic_of_Software_Patents_gets_Nobel_Prize
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
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| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
Software Patents: New Guidance from the IPO
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| The Intellectual Property Office had previously recognized inventions that
| either solve technical problems external to a computer or solve "a technical
| problem within the computer" as potentially patentable inventions. The sea
| change of Symbian is that
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| "improving the operation of a computer by solving a problem arising from
| the way the computer was programmed - for example, a tendency to crash
| due to conflicting library program calls - can also be regarded as
| solving "a technical problem within the computer" if it leads to a more
| reliable computer. Thus, a program that results in a computer running
| faster or more reliably may be considered to provide a technical
| contribution even if the invention solely addresses a problem in the
| programming."
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http://nipclaw.blogspot.com/2008/12/softare-patents-new-guidance-from-ipo.html
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