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USPTO: give one up, get one fast
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| The USPTO offers an interesting deal to
| applicants with more than one
| application: give one application up in
| exchange for expedited examination of
| another application. This program has
| been available for a while, but the USPTO
| announced on 17 May that it will now be
| open to all applicants:
|
| Under the expanded Project Exchange,
| which will take effect with the
| publication of the Federal Register
| notice in the coming weeks, any
| applicant with more than one
| application, filed prior to the
| inception of the program, currently
| pending at the USPTO can receive
| expedited review of one application
| in exchange for withdrawing an
| unexamined application. The expanded
| Project Exchange will give all
| applicants with multiple filings
| greater control over the priority in
| which their applications are examined
| and enable priority applications to
| be examined on an expedited basis. By
| providing incentives for applicants
| to withdraw unexamined applications
| that may no longer be important to
| them, Project Exchange is expected to
| appreciably reduce the backlog of
| unexamined patent applications
| pending before the USPTO.
|
| The expanded Project Exchange will be
| limited to 15 applications per entity
| through December 31, 2010.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/05/uspto-give-one-up-get-one-fast.html
Patents and Free and Open Source Software
http://lawweb.colorado.edu/events/mediaDetails.jsp?id=2703
Patents and Free and Open Source Software
http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/events.php?id=817
Patents (and Amarok)
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| Ade makes some interesting points about
| the GPL, particularly the opportunity to
| exclude certain jurisdictions where the
| use of the software would infringe a
| patent. He also raises the question of
| whether distribution of source code â as
| opposed to binaries â can be counted as
| infringement and reflects on the trend to
| explicitly claim for a medium containing
| code that would cause the invention to be
| ârealisedâ on a computer.
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http://www.asinen.org/2010/05/patents-and-amarok/
Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
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| "A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer
| leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the
| Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called
| the news that Monsanto will be donating
| 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid
| corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of
| them treated with highly toxic
| pesticides. The MPP has committed to
| burning Monsanto's seeds, and has called
| for a march to protest the corporation's
| presence in Haiti on June 4, for World
| Environment Day.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/haitian-farmers-commit-to_b_578807.html
Recent:
Monsanto targets public radio to spread false biotech messages
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| For years my alarm has been set to pubic
| radio so I can lie in bed for five minutes
| and have a grasp on the day's news before I
| even get up. I, like many other Americans,
| rely on NPR and other public-radio shows for
| news that is what I deem to be as unbiased
| and fair as possible. But this morning my
| ears burned as I listened to an on the
| American Public Media show Marketplace
| sponsored by Monsanto, the world's largest
| corporate agribusiness chemical firm, touting
| how its genetically modified (GM) seeds are
| going to save the world from environmental
| catastrophe and human hunger. It left me
| wondering, particularly in tough economic
| times, how do media ethics hold up? (The GMO
| seed giant has been bombarding liberal-minded
| publications with similar propaganda, see
| image to the right, for months.)
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http://www.grist.org/article/national-public-propaganda
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