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Outdated intellectual property laws a patent disgrace
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| The U.S. patent office gets nearly 500,000 applications every year. Figuring
| out who owns what, typically in court, has morphed into a business worth
| $10-billion (U.S.) a year in the United States, where the global patent war
| is mainly being waged.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/outdated-intellectual-property-laws-a-patent-disgrace/article1271404/
U.S. to launch two flash memory patent investigations
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| The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate
| technology-related patent complaints brought by two companies, with the
| vendors asking the agency to ban the import of a wide range of products using
| flash memory.
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| In one case, Samsung Electronics of South Korea filed a complaint, and in the
| second, Samsung is among the targets in the investigation. The two cases
| involve different types of flash memory.
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| A Samsung representative didn't immediately return a phone call seeking
| comment on the two cases.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137233/U.S._to_launch_two_flash_memory_patent_investigations
Recent:
Minister pleads guilty to stealing $500K from U.S. patent office
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| One of the patent employee's tasks was to process requests for funds from
| customers who had completed the application process, documents said. In his
| guilty plea, Reid said the patent office employee identified accounts that
| had gone dormant. She then changed the name on the accounts to Redeemed Music
| House and wired the cash to the company's bank account.
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| Court documents show that the patent worker stole a total of $534,338 over 32
| transfers, 27 of which were to Reid. It is unclear from documents where the
| other $80,000 went.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/Minister-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-_500K-from-U_S_-patent-office-8124071-53602837.html
Has the US patent system gone too far?
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| When Samuel Hopkins came up with a method for improving the production of
| potash, it was probably just the kind of invention that President George
| Washington had in mind when he created the US patent system. Hopkins, who in
| 1790 received the first American patent ever issued, had discovered a way to
| increase the production of a critical resource used to make glass, soap, and
| soil fertilizer.
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http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/03/12/has-the-us-patent-system-gone-too-far/
Michael Jackson: Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MAUgAAAAEBAJ&dq=Michael+Jackson+shoe
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