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[News] ACTA Poses Patent Danger, NZICT Lobbyists Try to Shatter NZ System

  • Subject: [News] ACTA Poses Patent Danger, NZICT Lobbyists Try to Shatter NZ System
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:47:16 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Caught in the ACTA: piracy and patents

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/04/caught-in-acta-piracy-and-patents.html

Big players fight changes to patent law

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| Multinationals protest New Zealand's 
| removal of software patents
| 
| [...]
| 
| The New Zealand Information and 
| Communications Technology Group (NZICT), 
| whose members include Microsoft, IBM, Cisco 
| and other multinationals as well as New 
| Zealand software developers and exporters, 
| says the committee got it wrong.
`----


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10641203

Lawyers want patents, engineers don't:

Chinese Companies Are IPR Victims Too

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| Ms Lin writes: "The report in Shenzhen-
| based Jing Bao quoted Fang Zhen, marketing 
| manager of Crastal Technology (Shenzhen) 
| Company, saying that some of the company's 
| patented products were found to be copied 
| overseas and then imported back to China." 
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http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2010/04/chinese-companies-are-ipr-victims-too.html


Recent:

Netizens: How ACTA will make a criminal of you

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| The 'Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement'
| (ACTA) might sound like it's aimed
| exclusively at the crooks selling pirated
| DVDs at the markets, but it's really about
| curbing the behaviour of individual internet
| users, according to one of Australia's
| leading legal academics.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/171910,netizens-how-acta-will-make-a-criminal-of-you.aspx
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