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Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for
biological research
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| Abstract
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| A new survey shows scientists consider the proliferation of intellectual
| property protection to have a strongly negative effect on research.
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| Introduction
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| A system of intellectual property (IP) rights can encourage inventions by
| scientists and help promote the transformation of research achievements into
| marketed products. But associated restrictions on access can reduce
| utilization of inventions by other scientists. How is this trade-off working
| out in practice?
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http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n1/full/nbt0109-36.html
A Patent-Holding Software Engineer Explains Why Software Patents Harm
Innovation
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| It's no surprise that many technologists and engineers dislike software
| patents -- even as their company's execs and lawyers push them to get more
| patents. Stephen Kinsella highlights an anonymous comment from a software
| engineer who clearly works for IBM (though he doesn't come out and say that
| directly), where he explains how IBM actively encourage engineers to file for
| as many patents as possible (it rewards them with monetary bonuses).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090119/1449403453.shtml
Patent Trolls Are a Symptom of Deeper Problems
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| The reason patent trolling is so profitable is that over the last quarter
| century the courts have expanded patenting into new areas like software and
| business methods, and dramatically lowered the bar for receiving a patent. As
| a result, patents that would have been rejected 30 years ago (like this
| ridiculous patent on removing white space from database entries, which IBM
| received earlier this month) are now routinely approved by the Patent Office.
| As a result, patent trolls are able to buy up low-quality patents by the
| truckload. Even though the vast majority of the patents won’t survive legal
| challenges, defendants can’t take the chance that one of them might survive
| and force the firm into a 8- or 9-figure settlement.
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| Patent trolls make good poster children for the patent system’s dysfunctions,
| but focusing too much on them ignores the fact that abusing the patent system
| is a game played by large companies as well. For example, Verizon managed to
| extort tens of millions of dollars from Vonage to settle a lawsuit over an
| absurdly broad Internet telephony patent. Verizon, of course, isn’t a “patent
| troll,” but a competitor interested in hobbling an up-and-coming competitor.
| Any patent reform needs to address the Verizons of the world too, not just
| the NTPs.
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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/01/17/patent-trolls-are-a-symptom-of-deeper-problems/
Recent:
Patent system 'stifling science'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm
What Can We Do To Help?
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-can-we-do-to-help.html
Related:
Patents Over Patients
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/opinion/01moss.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model
http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/51/
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