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Amazon Patents Selling Used Goods At Starbucks, Barnes & Noble Or Other Locations
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| theodp writes "Having already been burned by
| Amazon's 1-Click patent, one imagines Barnes
| & Noble will be fuming to learn that the
| USPTO granted Amazon a patent Tuesday
| covering the use of Barnes and Noble's
| physical stores to fulfill orders placed for
| used goods on Amazon. The e-tailer was
| awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,702,545 for its
| System and Method for Facilitating Exchanges
| Between Buyers and Sellers, legal-speak for
| arranging a place to meet to exchange cash
| for used goods ordered online. From the
| patent: 'In an exemplary embodiment, buyers
| and sellers are permitted to designate
| exchange locations in the system 100. An
| exchange location may be a location that the
| user regularly visits. For example, users
| may designate locations such as health
| clubs, schools, coffee shops, book stores,
| and so on, as acceptable exchange
| locations.'"
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100426/1028009167.shtml
Film, new media and music featured at Connecticut Film Festival workshops
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| The Connecticut Film Festival will also
| feature the world premiere of the film
| "Patent Absurdity," which explores the case
| of software patents and the history of
| judicial activism that led to their rise,
| and argues that programmers are finding it
| increasingly difficult to write programs for
| which they won't be liable to be sued.
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http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Film-new-media-and-music-featured-at-Connecticut-470022.php
Meat claimed as invention by multinational company of Monsanto
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| *Stop patenting the food chain!
|
| Multinational seed corporations are
| following a consequent strategy to gain
| control over basic resources for food
| production. As recent research shows not
| only genetically engineered plants, but more
| and more the conventional breeding of plants
| gets into the focus of patent monopolies:
| International patent applications in this
| sector are skyrocking, having doubled since
| 2007 till end of 2009. Further on the
| multinationals expand their claims over the
| whole chain of food production from feed to
| animals and food products such as meat. In a
| pending patent application from Monsanto
| even bacon and steaks are claimed: Patent
| application WO2009097403 is claiming meat
| stemming from pigs being fed with the
| patented genetically engineered plants of
| Monsanto. A similar patent is applied for
| fish from aquaculture in March 2010
| (WO201027788). Far reaching patents on food
| are even already granted: Monsanto received
| a European patent (EP 1356033) in 2009,
| which the chain of food production from
| seeds of genetically engineered plants up to
| food products such as meal and oil are
| covered.
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http://www.gmwatch.eu/latest-listing/1-news-items/12178-meat-claimed-as-invention-by-monsanto
A conference on software patents and free software
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| A survey was done back in 2008, with 15,000
| surveys sent out to a large number of firms.
| 1,333 of them - representing over 700
| companies - came back. The numbers that came
| out were interesting, if arguably
| unsurprising.
|
| According to this survey, 65% of software
| companies have no interest in software
| patents; they do not see patents as an
| important part of doing business. That
| compares with 82% of non-software companies
| which said they were working toward the
| acquisition of patents. It is worth noting
| that companies with venture capital backing
| had a higher level of interest in software
| patents than those without.
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https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/385600/be02f91a09bd0ff2/
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