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EU Community Patent And UPLS: Will There Be A Political Breakthrough Soon?
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| The Intellectual Property Expert Group
| (ipeg) are feeding hopes in their Blog that
| the Swedish EU Presidency might be lucky
| enough to successfully forge some sort of
| political compromise on the EU Community
| Patent as well as on the Unified Patent
| Litigation System (UPLS) later this year.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/133-EU-Community-Patent-And-UPLS-Will-There-Be-A-Political-Breakthrough-Soon.html
The Copyright Ratchet Racket Explained
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| I and many others have noted how changes in
| copyright law only ever work in one
| direction: to *increase* copyright's term
| and to give greater powers to copyright
| holders. In effect, it's a ratchet. But
| until now, I've not seen a good explanation
| of what's driving all this (although I had a
| pretty good idea). The motor behind the
| ratchet (assuming such mixed metaphors are
| permitted) is harmonisation:
|
| Simply put, âharmonizationâ is a concept
| whereby the intellectual property laws
| of different countries are made
| consistent, mostly to facilitate
| international trade and business. The
| concept of harmonization is not unusual;
| almost all the states and territories in
| this country are signatories to the
| Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), a model
| law in the U.S. that makes consistent
| (or âharmonizesâ) the law of contracts,
| sales, banking, and secured
| transactions. This allows firms in one
| state to reasonably, predictably, and
| consistently do business with firms in
| another state.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/copyright-ratchet-racket-explained.html
âStaff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization
of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to
make more money.â
âOne of the ways that the EPO has done this is by issuing software patents in
defiance of the treaty that set it up.â
--Richard Stallman
Recent:
Reform of Europe's patent system moves a step closer
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| Changes to Europe's costly and fragmented patent system have edged a step
| closer after EU industry ministers agreed formally to ask the European Court
| of Justice for its opinion on a potential overhaul.
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| Ministers, meeting in Brussels yesterday, said they would consult Europe's
| top court on the legality under EU law of introducing specialist courts to
| handle patent disputes along with a so-called "community patent".
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| The latter - which would be a single intellectual property right that would
| apply across Europe - has been an elusive goal for decades.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc4715a4-4be8-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
EU states consult top court on patent litigation
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| European Union states agreed on Thursday to ask the bloc's top court whether
| draft plans to cut the cost of defending patents in a new system of courts
| would be compatible with EU law.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8530149
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oeWg2zPlaPE
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ROVOE-T9uQU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kr0Foq3CQE&NR=1
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