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FFII: World Day preparations #ssp09 - answer like your minister
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| September 24th software professionals around the world will
| celebrate the annual World Day against Software Patents. This
| year the Swedish EU Presidency happens to contributes a
| minister consultation to the #ssp09 celebrations with an aim to
| "[review] Community innovation policy in a changing world".
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-183279/ffii:world-day-preparations-ssp09-answer-like-your-minister
Trolls demanding tolls
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| The market is still small but it is growing quicklyâby perhaps
| 20-30% a year, reckons Coller Capital, an investment firm that
| has snapped up, among other prizes, IBMâs portfolio of medical-
| device and health-care patents. Intellectual Ventures, based
| near Seattle, has spent a large chunk of the $5 billion it has
| raised from investors on buying patents; at the last count it
| had 27,000. Fortress, a big hedge-fund and private-equity
| group, is also active. Ron Epstein of iPotential, a patent-
| brokerage firm, says he is getting an ever-increasing volume of
| calls from hedge funds looking for patents related to mobile
| telecoms, medical equipment, biotechnology and the internet. He
| estimates that $4 billion-worth were bought and sold last year
| overall.
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http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14416641
An Appeal to the New Patent Office Director: Repeal the Single Sentence Rule
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| The consequence of the USPTOâs âsingle sentence ruleâ requires
| the patent drafter to cram several paragraphs of description
| into a single sentence. The rule forces claim drafters to
| convert otherwise sensible sentences into multiple clauses
| beginning âwherein,â such as: âwherein the stringed instrument
| includes a vibrato bridge movable to vary the tension of each
| of said one or more strings wherein each of said one or more
| strings is connected at one end to the actuating means and
| wherein the actuating means is carried by the vibrato bridge.â3
| In a patent attorneyâs hands, the above clause contains
| reasonable usage. In the hands of any other person, that clause
| âpart of the lengthier entirety of the claimâjustifiably drives
| them apoplectic.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/09/an-appeal-to-the-new-patent-office-director-repeal-the-single-sentence-rule.html
Recent:
FFII and EPO announce "Binaries-As-Prior-Art"
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| After years of confidential work, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the
| Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) today announce a
| radical way to improve software patent quality: Binaries-As-Prior-Art, or
| BAPA. BAPA combines a database of billions of compiled computer programs
| ("binaries") with a powerful Cloud search engine that can find any invention
| in microseconds.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_and_EPO_announce_%22Binaries-As-Prior-Art%22
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