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Digital Commissioner Kroes proposes new EU policy of open standards
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| AN IMPORTANT POLICY PAPER, A Digital Agenda
| for Europe â
| A policy for smart growth and innovation in a
| digital society, HAS BEEN LEAKED OF WHICH AN
| EXCERPT IS BELOW. DIGITAL AGENDA
| COMMISSIONER KROES HAS PROPOSED A SERIOUS
| MOVE OF THE EU TOWARD OPEN STANDARDS AND
| INTEROPERABILITY. THESE PROPOSALS ARE
| ALREADY BEING ATTACKED BY HER COLLEAGUES IN
| THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION WHO REPRESENT
| ENTERPRISE, COMMERCE AND INTERNAL MARKET.
| NEVERTHELESS, THESE PROPOSALS DESERVE
| CONSUMER AND CITIZEN SUPPORT.
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http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog/2010/03/19/digital-commissioner-kroes-proposes-new-eu-policy-of-open-standards/
Software patents
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| In simplified terms the UK Intellectual
| Property Office (UK IPO) on the other hand
| follows law and practice in the UK instead
| where a patent for software can be granted
| only where the software has a technical
| effect.
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http://www.lawdit.co.uk/reading_room/room/view_article.asp?name=../articles/5225-Software-patents.htm
Verizon Figures If It's Already Involved In A Patent Lawsuit With TiVo, Why Not Sue Cablevision For Its DVR Too
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| Ah, the patent wars. As you're probably
| aware, TiVo spent years fighting a big legal
| battle with EchoStar/Dish Networks over some
| patents on DVR technology. TiVo won big, and
| then immediately turned its patent lawyers on
| some other companies including Verizon. In
| Verizon's response to TiVo's lawsuit, it went
| nuclear back, accusing TiVo of violating
| Verizon's patents on DVR technology --
| including a patent that the world's biggest
| patent hoarding firm, Intellectual Ventures,
| gave Verizon for the purpose of being used
| against TiVo.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100318/0352238615.shtml
Recent:
Kroes hearing
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| On software patents Kroes focussed on
| interoperability within her portfolio.
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| âWe should discuss what about software
| patentsââ
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| A view which satisfies stakeholders against
| and for software patenting alike.
|
| [...]
|
| Kroes is the perfect person for the position
| of a âDigital Agendaâ Commissioner. Agenda
| policy is usually a slow and ineffective
| snowball process driven by technocratic
| sermon, an undisputed lie or truth in the
| center of it all. Having someone involved who
| is still able to talk plain language and check
| the premises is very much beneficial. Most
| digital policy matters require a strong focus
| on market order. Who would be better qualified
| than Kroes to get that right?
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/kroes-hearing/
Needlessly Needling Neelie
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| What's interesting here is that Kroes is juxtaposing proprietary and open
| source. Now, for you and me, this is reflexive, but for the EU's
| Competition Commissioner to be framing an extremely contentious
| intervention in these terms seems pretty stunning to me. It implies that
| the difference between those two worlds has been interiorised by at least
| some senior politicians to such an extent that they are using it as a
| central part of their analysis in major decisions, without feeling the
| need to justify that approach. Whatever your views on other aspects of the
| decision, I think Kroes deserves some credit for getting to that point.
|
| More importantly, it basically means we're winning, people.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/09/needlessly-needling-neelie.html
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