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Canada Finds Patents No Help For Poorest In Need Of Medicine
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| Canadaâs National Bureau of Economic Research
| today released a report on the relationship
| between patent protection for pharmaceuticals
| and investment in development of new drugs
| since the negotiation of the 1994 World Trade
| Organization Agreement on Trade-Related
| Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
| (TRIPS). The NBER report âInvestments in
| Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPSâ found
| that patent protection is associated with
| increases in research and development in
| developed countries, but âthe introduction of
| patents in developing countries has not been
| followed by greater investment.â
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/11/02/canada-finds-patents-no-help-for-poorest-in-need-of-medicine/
Recent:
Microsoft accused of 'ulterior motive' in Linux patent sale
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| Does the troll-blocking organization that recently
| secured a set of supposedly Linux-related patents from
| Microsoft need sizing for a penguin-shaped tinfoil hat?
| Or was the IP sale really Redmond's secret scheme to
| "create fear, uncertainty, and doubt" in the open-
| source community?
|
| On Monday, at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon, Open
| Invention Network chief executive Keith Bergelt had
| more harsh words for Microsoft over Redmond's allegedly
| sinister sale. Apparently, Microsoft shopped its
| patents to several firms, including some notorious
| patent trolls, and it didn't offer them to OIN.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/22/linuxcon_2009_oin/
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