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USPTO Director announcement imminent as a new name enters the frame
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| Three names have been in the frame for the job up to now: Todd Dickinson,
| David Kappos and James Pooley.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?g=5e1205f8-5646-45ff-bbb6-0890193738bf
Dave Kappos as Next PTO Director?
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/05/dave-kappos-as-next-pto-director.html
Patent Thickets and Patent Trolls:
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| Moreover, this new definition would now include many corporations, such as
| IBM, which collect patents, not for manufacturing purposes, but to use them
| as a shield against patent infringement lawsuits. (Coincidentally, two
| commentators to my prior post on incremental invention mentioned IBM's
| practice of hoarding patents.) In sum, IBM, which has long been one of the
| largest owners of patents in the country, uses patents defensively. Its
| policy has been one of “mutually assured destruction,” i.e., if someone
| threatens to sue it for patent infringement, then it promises that it can
| find a patent in its massive patent portfolio with which to countersue for
| infringement. This policy has worked marvelously well for IBM, which has
| mostly avoided patent infringement lawsuits and has been left free to devote
| its time, energy and money to developing new products and services that it
| offers in the marketplace. But IBM's policy of hoarding patents is
| certainly "patent troll"-like behavior — patents are being used solely for
| litigation purposes and not for development of actual products sold in the
| marketplace.
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http://volokh.com/posts/1241494164.shtml
Recent:
EPO seeks to validate software patents without the European Parliament
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| At the highest level of the European Patent Office (EPO), the legality of
| software patents in Europe is about to be tested. The FFII warns that the
| European Parliament is being bypassed by allowing a decision with EU-wide
| implications to be made without its involvement or any real debate.
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| The President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Alison Brimelow, has asked
| the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) to decide on the interpretation of the
| European Patent Convention (EPC) regarding the exclusion of software from
| patentability. The EBA is replacing the European Parliament in order to
| validate software patents EU-wide without the need of a debate.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/EPO_seeks_to_validate_software_patents_without_the_European_Parliament
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