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Obama: Patent office's system is 'embarrassing'
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/76055-obama-patent-offices-system-is-embarrassing
Obama Calls The Patent Office Embarrassing For Its Outdated Workflow
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| Indeed. It is embarrassing (perhaps the
| fear of patent infringement holds the
| patent office back from modernizing?), but
| not quite as embarrassing as the fact that
| the patent office has not done its job of
| "protecting and promoting innovation" at
| all for a very long time. Given the number
| of questionable and obvious patents that it
| has approved, and its willingness to create
| massive patent thickets, it has become
| clear that the patent office has been much
| more focused on processing patents, not in
| promoting innovation.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100115/1052177773.shtml
Lessons from 60 years of pharmaceutical innovation
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| He also admits that "in many organizations,
| short-term priorities encourage marginal
| innovation, which provides more reliable
| returns on investment, at the expense of
| major change." He recognizes, in other
| words, that the current incentive system
| rewards the development of me-too drugs
| over novel therapies. Finally, he admits
| that alternatives to the traditional patent
| system, including prizes, may be required
| to boost R&D productivity.
|
| Very encouraging words!
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002319
Nokia Defeats IPCom's UK Patent Lawsuit
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| Nokia has scored two consecutive victories
| against German patent license manager IPCom
| in the U.K, it said on Tuesday.
|
| On Monday, the U.K. High Court announced
| that two IPCom patents named in a suit
| brought by IPCom against Nokia are invalid,
| and therefore can't be infringed upon,
| according to Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant.
| The patents are related to how phones
| connect to a GSM (Global System for Mobile
| Communications) network, he said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/187160/nokia_defeats_ipcoms_uk_patent_lawsuit.html?tk=rss_news
Marcus Dapp: Do SW patents hamper motivation and innovation of FOSS developers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjRAlH8hcc
Recent:
U.S. losing Right Stuff in science, engineering
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| According to a 2010 National Science Board report, the state
| of science and engineering in the U.S. is still good; however, the
| countryâs lead in the number of researchers is being challenged by China.
| Other science and engineering indicators in the U.S. are also being
| challenged by Asian countries.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30532/1066/
IBM Fluffs Patent Portfolio with Services Tech
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| For what seems like a zillion years
| running--alright, for the past 17 years
| now--IBM has come out as the top dog in
| the annual rankings of patents granted by
| the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A
| few years back, the USPTO stopped giving
| out data about patent counts, but market
| researcher IFI Patent Intelligence takes
| the raw patent data and dices and slices
| it like the patent office used to.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011810-story06.html
USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM
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| theodp writes "Among the last batch of
| patents granted in 2009 was one for IBM's
| Resolution of Abbreviated Text in an
| Electronic Communications System. The
| invention of four IBMers addresses the
| hitherto unsolvable problem of translating
| abbreviations to their full meaning â e.g.,
| 'IMHO' means 'In My Humble Opinion' â and
| vice versa. From the patent: 'One
| particularly useful application of the
| invention is to interpret the meaning of
| shorthand terms ... For example, one
| database may define the shorthand term "LOL"
| to mean "laughing out loud."' USPTO records
| indicate the patent filing was made more
| than a year after Big Blue called on the
| industry to stop what it called 'bad
| behavior' by companies who seek patents for
| unoriginal work. Yet another example of what
| USPTO Chief David Kappos called IBM's
| apparent schizophrenia on patent policy back
| when he managed Big Blue's IP portfolio."
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http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/12/30/166220/USPTO-Awards-LOL-Patent-To-IBM
IBM Patents Managing Your Patents
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| theodp writes "Before leaving a long IBM career
| last summer to head the USPTO, David Kappos
| managed Big Blue's patent and trademark
| portfolios. Last Tuesday, the USPTO awarded
| U.S. Patent No. 7,630,915 to IBM for its
| inventive method of Managing an Intellectual
| Property Portfolio."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091216/1806457391.shtml
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