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British government clowning around with patents -- but no-one's laughing
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| On the assumption that this is not a
| practical joke, it now seems that the
| British government is set to tax the fruits
| of research and development in order to fund
| ... research and development. What a
| wonderful incentive to invest, particularly
| when other countries are encouraging R&D by
| doing the exact opposite. Merpel says, don't
| worry: Britain's best tax brains will soon
| find ways of showing that the income in
| question isn't derived from patents at all,
| and the government's coffers will be none
| the fuller.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/12/british-government-clowning-around-with.html
Apple Countersues Nokia
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| Responding to a lawsuit brought against the
| company by Nokia, Apple today filed a
| countersuit claiming that Nokia is
| infringing 13 Apple patents.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/emotional_epide.html
Apple, Nokia Patent Fight Continues
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/apple-nokia-patent-fight-continues/?cs=38102
Apple countersues Nokia
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1565940/apple-countersues-nokia
Apple and Nokia's battle hots up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8408696.stm
Round Table on Software Patents at the Israel Patent Office
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| As I have explained in this blog in earlier
| articles, I consider the copyright double
| protection idea is problematic since
| copyright protects the embodiment of the
| idea and not the idea itself. Why shouldnât
| a software invention be protectable against
| reengineering? Is a 70 year protection
| against copying of any value in a field
| where a generation is usually 2 years?
| Considering software not technical is
| ridiculous. software is rightly considered
| an engineering discipline. Since algorithms
| can be hard-wired into chips or by a machine
| with valves, the concept of software being
| different from hardware is somewhat
| arbitrary. Nevertheless, Lord Justice Jacobs
| has presented powerful arguments as to why
| software patents are not in the interest of
| promoting progress and there is a large
| open-source community.
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http://blog.ipfactor.co.il/2009/11/02/round-table-on-software-patents-at-the-israel-patent-office/
Israel in danger of software patents
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| The Israeli Patent Office (IPO) has launched
| a consultation on whether or not to allow
| software patents, with a February 2010
| deadline. Iâve put the details at the end of
| this post, but first some background.
|
| * The IPO consistently rejects software
| patents and business method patents.
| Examples:
| o The 2005 rejection of the 142049
| website patent
| o The September 2006 rejection of
| the 131733 sales coupons patent
| * Patent Attorney Ehud Hausman, with the
| support of international pro-swpat lobby
| group AIPPI, has been trying since 2007
| to change this.
| * He claimed in May 2008 to have partly
| convinced the IPO to grant software
| patents (but no change on business
| method patents). Iâve no third-party
| confirmation of this.
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http://news.swpat.org/2009/11/israel-in-danger-of-software-patents/
Objectivists: "All Property is Intellectual Property"
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| In other words, if you take a principled
| approach to IP, you endorse a system that
| condemns society to stagnation and death. So
| most proponents, like Rand, realizing this,
| start making ad hoc, unprincipled,
| utilitarian exceptions to avoid the most
| obvious, harsh consequences of a principled
| implementation of their confused IP ideas.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001988
Recent:
Virgin Media wins Gemstar EPG ruling
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| Virgin Media has succeeded in the patent dispute
| brought against it by Gemstar TV Guide. The
| London High Court rulings call into question the
| ability for intellectual property rights holder
| Rovi to enforce its patents both in the UK and
| with operators around the world.
|
| Gemstar, now part of Rovi, had claimed the
| cablenetâs EPG had breached three patents â EP
| 0969662, EP 1377049 and EP 1613066 â which were
| involved in the display and transfer of
| programme information and metadata. BSkyB,
| Foxtel, Portugal Telecom, Sky Italia and UPC
| Broadband have all signed up to Roviâs patent
| programme.
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http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/11/27/virgin-wins-gemstar-epg-case/
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