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Down To Business: Tech Patents Run Amok
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| Let's remember the original purpose of the
| patent system: to encourage innovation and
| its broader benefits, not to make people
| rich.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/legal/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220400010
Senate Panel Approves Extension of Patriot Act
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| The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on
| Thursday voted to extend the controversial
| Patriot Act, an antiterrorism law passed
| shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist
| attacks on the U.S.
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| Supporters of the Patriot Act say it gives
| law enforcement important powers to track
| down and investigate terrorists. Without
| the Patriot Act, U.S. law enforcement
| efforts to find terrorists would be
| significantly harmed, members of former
| President George Bush's administration
| argued.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20091008/tc_pcworld/senatepanelapprovesextensionofpatriotact
Recent:
Careful What You Ask For: China's Patent System Causing Trouble
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| All those foreign nations who kept pushing China to build up its own patent
| system and learn to "respect intellectual property" may soon be regretting
| that, as they're suddenly blocked out of the Chinese market by Chinese firms
| who fast-tracked cheap utility patents themselves with little to no review.
| Be careful what you wish for.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090826/1354186007.shtml
Beijing ruling shows why foreign companies need a patent strategy for China
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| When France's Schneider Electric faced a patent battle in a Chinese court
| recently it had reason to feel confident. It thought it had a solid prior art
| case for invalidating the patent being used against it by Chinese firm Chint,
| and foreign companies win 95% of patent cases in the Chinese courts.
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http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=10323
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