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____/ nessuno on Monday 22 June 2009 08:47 : \____
> <Quote>
> President Obama has announced his intent to nominate David Kappos, a
> VP and general counsel at IBM, to head the US Patent and Trademark
> Office. This move is particularly notable not only because of IBM's
> much friendlier attitudes towards open source compared with some of
> their rivals, but also because Kappos himself is open source-friendly:
> 'We are now the biggest supporters of the open source development
> project,' explains David. 'Admittedly this policy is not easily
> reconcilable with our traditional IP strategy, but we are convinced
> that it is the way to go for the future.' Not just a lawyer, Kappos
> earned an engineering degree before working in the legal field. Kappos
> has been described as 'critical of the American approach to patent
> policy.' Given his background, could this mean a new era for US patent
> policy?
> </Quote>
>
>
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/1941241/Obama-Taps-IBM-Open-Source-Advocate-For-USPTO
If he cares about "open source" he will prepare a plan to abolish software
patents, if not gradually shut down USPTO. Then again, with the peer2patent
(aka volunteers-to-legitimise-software-patents) project, I guess there could
be worse candidates.
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