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Prague and patents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6byOZBWwcE
Watch his reaction. It's like he's one of Microsoft.
Prague, patents and Amsterdam
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| Dave Birch of Consult Hyperion has strong views on all sorts of technology
| issues – instinctively, he is an open-source web libertarian, and he was not
| afraid to voice his opinions to the patent lawyers and artists’ rights
| organisations gathered in Prague, You get a bit of a flavour of that in this
| video.
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http://rorycellan.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/prague-patents-and-amsterdam/
Lawyers 'orgy':
2945th session of the Council of the European Union - Competitiveness
Configuration (Internal Market, Industry and Research)
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| On May 28 and 29, 2009, a EU Council meeting (2945th session of the Council
| of the European Union - Competitiveness Configuration (Internal Market,
| Industry and Research)) will take place in Brussels. It will be chaired by Mr
| Vladimír Tošovský, Minister of Industry and Trade, and Ms Miroslava Kopicová,
| Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, of the Czech Republic currently
| representing EU Presidency. The afternoon session on May 28, 2009, will be
| devoted to the examination of the project for creating a Community Patent and
| a Unified Patent Litigation System (UPLS).
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/77-2945th-session-of-the-Council-of-the-European-Union-Competitiveness-Configuration-Internal-Market,-Industry-and-Research.html
Recent:
The Intellectual Property Asshole Competition
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| Roth has launched his "Intellectual Property Asshole Competition" where he is
| selling, via his website, hand-painted version of both the Mannie Garcia/AP
| photo and Shepard Fairey's poster... and will see who is the first to send
| him a cease and desist. While we never think it's a good idea to infringe for
| the sake of infringement, this ought to be fun to watch.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090522/1500094984.shtml
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=1
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