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Looks Like IP Is About To Slow Down Innovation In Clean Tech
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| Plenty of studies have shown, over and over again, that in an emerging
| market, the last thing you want is patent protection. It slows down
| innovation and adoption drastically. That's because in a brand new emerging
| market, the bigger issue is actually figuring out how to get the market
| established -- and that means a lot of different efforts getting thrown at
| the wall, and the ability for multiple parties to try different approaches to
| getting things to work in a way that the market wants. Often this means a lot
| more sharing of ideas (even among competitors), as everyone begins to
| recognize that getting over that adoption hurdle is a much bigger deal than
| hoarding IP. And that's a key point.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090820/0252325944.shtml
Why We Must Call Them "Intellectual Monopolies"
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| There we have it: the more opponents collude by using the "eye-pea" term, the
| more the monopolists can point to this as "proof" that copyright and patents
| are property, not monopolies.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-we-must-call-them-intellectual.html
European Commission to commission research into IP systems
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| The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market and
| Services plans to conclude a contract for a comprehensive study on patent
| quality. The aim is to study the quality of patent rights with economic
| analysis in order to propose effective policy solutions for the optimal
| functioning of the future patent system in Europe considering its objectives
| to encourage innovation and the diffusion of new technology and knowledge.
| This should take into account a system with the co-existence of national and
| European patents, and a future Community patent which is currently being
| negotiated between Member States.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/08/european-commission-to-commission.html
Recent:
EU Commission Sponsoring Study On The Quality Of The Patent System In Europe
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| In political terms, this move of the EU Commission might indicate that they
| do want to have a take of their own on the topic of patent quality: Despite
| the fact that the European Patent Office (EPO) is working since many years on
| this aspect on their business, the EU Commission has decided to spend some
| money in order to obtain something like a second opinion independently from
| EPO.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/110-EU-Commission-Sponsoring-Study-On-The-Quality-Of-The-Patent-System-In-Europe.html
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