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“INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”:
A LIBERTARIAN CRITIQUE
http://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/intellectual-property-a-libertarian-critique.pdf
Fashion Industry Repeats Software's Mistakes
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| Software patents are stupid on both theoretical and practical grounds. Since
| software is just algorithms - that is, maths - software patents are
| intellectual monopolies on pure knowledge. Practically, they make coding
| almost impossible, since software patents have been given for so many trivial
| and common programming techniques.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/fashion-industry-repeats-softwares.html
New fashion copyright bill will let big companies own public domain designs and
bury young, indie designers in legal costs
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/06/new-fashion-copyrigh.html
Canadian Patent Appeal Board Rules Against Business Method Patents
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4034/135/
Canadian Patent Office Rejects Software And Business Model Patents
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090606/1138105151.shtml
Patent-Litigation Weekly: The Photo-Sharing Files
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| Creating and sharing images—drawings, paintings, photographs—are among the
| most ancient of human activities, and throughout history, technology that
| makes that sharing possible has been embraced as rapidly as it appears.
| Today, that technology takes the form of software applications for computers
| and cell phones.
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| That all helps explain why the collection of scrappy entrepreneurs who run
| small and medium-sized photo-sharing companies didn’t always think about
| patents as they built up their businesses.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2009/05/patentlitigation-weekly-the-photosharing-files.html
Rambus drops (some) Nvidia allegations
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| Rambus is dropping allegations against Nvidia relating to four of nine
| patents the IP chip firm claims are being infringed by GeForce graphics
| processors and nForce chipsets.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/rambus_asks_itc_to_drop_4_of_9_patents_in_complaint/
Recent:
Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
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| Conversely, there is widespread anecdotal evidence that the act created a
| mind-set among many researchers that their knowledge represents a potential
| goldmine not to be shared with potential competitors (i.e. those working in
| other universities) - at least until it has been protected by a patent
| application.
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| Similarly, the act has led to a flood of “upstream” patents on basic
| scientific knowledge, leading to what some commentators describe as a
| virtually impenetrable “patent thicket” blocking small-scale inventors from
| marketing their products. For example, restrictive software patents limit
| further development and commercialisation in the field of information
| technology.
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http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8543&page=
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