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Software patents plot buried under amicus avalanche
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| The EPO's latest attempt to validate their widely criticized practice of
| software patenting has been met with a much stronger response than expected.
| This broad public interest comes in reaction to the referral on the
| patentability of software to the Enlarged Board of Appeal. The referral
| procedure allows interested third parties to file statements - Amicus Curiae
| Briefs - to present their views to the members of the board. The Enlarged
| Board of Appeals asked for such statements to be submitted by end of April
| and a total of 89 such statements have been published by the Register so far.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Software_patents_plot_buried_under_amicus_avalanche
EPO Looks To Future Technologies, 2010 Leadership Change
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| Meanwhile, European Patent Office (EPO) President Alison Brimelow informed
| her staff that she will “not be seeking extension” when her current
| three-year contract is up at the end of June 2010, EPO Director for Media
| Relations Rainer Osterwalder told Intellectual Property Watch. Choosing a new
| president is the member-driven job of the administrative council of the EPO,
| but it is unclear when they will start such a process.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/08/epo-looks-to-future-technologies-2010-leadership-change/#more-3217
Patents: fixable, or the next weapons of financial destruction?
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| At that point Simon dropped a bomb. "This is something we should definitely
| fix," the Intel counsel said. "Right now there's $35 billion out there trying
| to buy patents and form them into pools. And I can tell you that there is
| much more money coming in soon."
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| Even more dire, Simon said that recently one of the experts on his team had
| been approached with a job offer from an investment bank. The bank is putting
| together a team to pool patents and create financial derivatives based on the
| pools.
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| This would, in effect, create a mechanism by which speculators could bet on
| the future cash flow from patents. Because more aggressive litigation would
| be expected to increase the flow, it is likely that a patent derivatives
| market would significantly further increase the assertion of patents by NPEs,
| and hence further increase the risk of innovation for real technology
| companies.
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http://www.edn.com/article/CA6656862.html
Recent:
IAM exclusive - Brimelow to quit as EPO President
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| Alison Brimelow will not seek reappointment as President of the European
| Patent Office when her current term expires at the end of June 2010, it was
| announced today. Rainer Osterwalder, Director of Media Relations at the EPO,
| told IAM this afternoon: "Yes, I can confirm that Alison Brimelow has
| informed the EPO staff today that she will not seek an extension of her
| contract which ends on 30 June 2010."
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?g=c54c7e9c-28e0-42cf-9e10-389812ad3e60
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