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[News] Blockade in Patent System Due to Trolls Epidemic
Patent trolls live under the bridge
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| Dell, HP, Fujitsu and IBM have been hit by a lawsuit in the Eastern District
| of Texas Marshall Division - famously known for its ability to expedite
| patent (chapter 830) disputes. The article linked to points out that it is
| unfair to describe anyone bringing patent suits to court as "patent trolls" -
| they have to have a sound case and deserve their time in court. So who
| exactly are the trolls?
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42715/118/
Actus goes patent lawsuit crazy
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| The outfit clams that more than 15 companies, including Apple, Amazonmdocs,
| American Express, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Cabela's, Citigroup, Ebay,
| Firstview, Marketing Technology Concepts, Netspend, Officemax, US Bancorp,
| and Vivotech have nicked its technology.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1184517/actus-goes-patent-lawsuit-crazy
Recent:
Of Trolls, Davids, Goliaths, and Kings: Narratives and Evidence in the
Litigation of High-Tech Patents
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| While each patent dispute is unique, most fit the profile of one of a limited
| number of patent litigation stories. A dispute between an independent
| inventor and a large company, for instance, is often cast in “David v.
| Goliath” terms. When two large companies fight over patents, in contrast,
| they are said to be playing the “sport of kings.” Some corporations engage
| in “defensive patenting” in order to deter others from suing them. Patent
| licensing and enforcement entities who sue have been labeled “trolls.”
| Finally, observers of the patent system call the use of patent litigation to
| impose or exploit financial distress “patent predation.”
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1396319
Golan Case May Put US In Violation Of International Copyright Treaties
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| By limiting copyright restoration, the ruling might prevent the US from
| fulfilling its obligations under the Berne Convention and the World Trade
| Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
| Rights (TRIPS).
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/08/golan-case-may-put-us-in-violation-of-international-copyright-treaties/
EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty
documents
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| Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "The U.S. government is
| still blocking the release of information about a secret intellectual
| property trade agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation
| around the world, despite the Obama administration's promises to run a more
| open government. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) could
| establish far-reaching customs regulations over Internet traffic in the guise
| of anti-counterfeiting measures, but no one knows for sure the state of this
| pact, as the government is hiding the details. EFF is calling on the feds to
| change their minds, and will keep fighting this in court."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/06/eff-sues-obama-admin.html
European Commission On ACTA: TRIPS Is Floor Not Ceiling
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| The EU Commission is “committed to improve the international legal framework
| for IP protection” and sees “ACTA as one way to reach that goal,” Devigne
| said. There was no intention to duplicate TRIPS. Rather, “we want to go
| beyond it,” he said, adding, “TRIPS is the floor, not the ceiling.”
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/04/22/european-commission-on-acta-trips-is-floor-not-ceiling/
The ACTA draft treaty is covering patent infringement
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| Wikileaks has published some drafts of the secret ACTA treaty, which aims to
| give better guns to Patent Trolls. The draft mentions that it covers all the
| rights covered by TRIPS, so it will cover also patents.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-147082/the-acta-draft-treaty-is-covering-patent-infringement
Goodbye WIPO, Hello ACTA?
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| What is really remarkable about this is that Greve can even be asking WIPO to
| consider free software and open standards: a few years ago, such a thing
| would have amounted to blasphemy.
| Sadly, there is another sign that WIPO is becoming more accommodating to the
| ideas behind free software: the fact that there seems to be a move to come
| up with an alternative forum for promoting intellectual monopolies where it
| will not be so easy to participate.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2101&blogid=14
New ACTA copyright treaty dodges the UN, poor countries and activists
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| Michael Geist sez, "The World Intellectual Property Organization may be best
| known for the Internet treaties that led to the DMCA, but in recent years
| groups like EFF, KEI, and Public Knowledge has helped to open things up and
| move toward a Development Agenda that better balances international
| intellectual property policy. That progress may be threatened by the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which officials now acknowledge is
| designed to exclude WIPO, developing countries, and NGOs."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/new-acta-copyright-t.html
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