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Researchers: Copying And Imitation Is Good For Society
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| And, now some researchers have started to look
| into it, and actually have built a model that
| shows society is likely better off when copying
| is the norm. Aaron deOliveira alerts us to the
| research on this, which tries to model societies
| with creators and innovators, and finds that
| society is served best when 30% of the
| population is involved in creating new goods,
| while 70% is focused on copying.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1158236974.shtml
Patent Pending: How to Get an Interview With the PTO Chief
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/patent_pending_how_to_get_an_interview_with_the_pto_chief/
Rambus EU Settlement Appears Near
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20091125100020353
EU set to accept Rambus antitrust proposals-source
http://www.forexyard.com/en/reuters_inner.tpl?action=2009-11-24T175702Z_01_N24310850_RTRIDST_0_RAMBUS-UPDATE-1
Recent:
What use are research patents?
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| In any case, I'm not buying David's assertion that "most universities", or
| most hospitals or research institutes for that matter, rely heavily on
| licensing income. And that being so, I am also somewhat skeptical about the
| number of researchers' families being supported by patents.
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| What's the Open Science connection? Well, if you're interested in patenting
| the results of your research, there are a lot of restrictions on how you can
| disseminate your results. You can't keep an Open Notebook, or upload
| unprotected work to a preprint server or publicly-searchable repository, or
| even in many cases talk about the IP-related parts of your work at
| conferences. It seems from the data above that most universities would not be
| losing much if they gave up chasing patents entirely; nor would they be
| risking much future income, since so few seem to get significant funds from
| licensing.
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http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2009/06/what_use_are_research_patents.php
Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
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| Conversely, there is widespread anecdotal evidence that the act created a
| mind-set among many researchers that their knowledge represents a potential
| goldmine not to be shared with potential competitors (i.e. those working in
| other universities) - at least until it has been protected by a patent
| application.
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| Similarly, the act has led to a flood of âupstreamâ patents on basic
| scientific knowledge, leading to what some commentators describe as a
| virtually impenetrable âpatent thicketâ blocking small-scale inventors from
| marketing their products. For example, restrictive software patents limit
| further development and commercialisation in the field of information
| technology.
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http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8543&page=
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