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USPTO Getting Paupers To Hand Over Thousands On The Dream Of Patent Wealth
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090808/1112555813.shtml
Patent Office Keeps Check, Lets Patent Go Abandoned For Being $10 Short
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| Jorge Taylor had a patent for a chemical sealant device for repairing flat
| tires (U.S. Pat. No. 5,178,701) and had to pay the seven-and-a-half-year
| maintenance fee of $1040. But, Mr. Taylor sent a check for $1030, rather than
| $1040, in the mail and used the wrong form for transmitting his payment, and
| sent it to the Applications Branch rather than the Maintenance Fee branch â
| sort of a hat trick of errors.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/08/patent-office-keeps-check-lets-patent-go-abandoned-for-being-10-short.html
Pharma biz fingers tech firm over patents
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| PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY BTG is trying to stop certain computer products from
| reaching American shores because they infringe on some of its patents.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1528823/pharma-biz-fingers-tech-firm-patents
Recent:
Patenting the Barcode of Life
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| DNA barcoding is such a powerful idea that the parasites have moved in, and
| started trying to *patent* bits of the idea:
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| Â Â Systematic and phylogenetics, indeed much of evolutionary science, has
| Â Â long and great tradition of making resources and knowledge freely
| Â Â available to other resources. Instead of cash, all an author asks for is
| Â Â a citation or a credit. Therefore, it sounded incredulous to me that one
| Â Â researcher was trying to patent a DNA barcode snippet for a plant gene
| Â Â that was being worked on over several years by a large group of
| Â Â researchers.
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| It's a classic situation: not only are scientific techniques being patented,
| they are techniques that are well established and have been used for years -
| something that is explicitly excluded even in the most deranged patent
| regimes. And people say the system is working just fine...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/patenting-barcode-of-life.html
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