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Why The Firm, Simple Declaration Against ACTA
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| ACTA (1), a treaty designed to attack the
| rights of computer users in some 40-odd
| countries -- and others later -- is
| encountering increasing opposition. ACTA
| threatens, in a disguised way, to punish
| Internet users with disconnection if they
| are accused of sharing, and requires
| countries to prohibit software that can
| break Digital Restrictions Management
| (DRM), also known as digital handcuffs
| (2).
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http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/why-acta-declaration
Another Bilski-Free Day at the Supreme Court
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| The Supreme Court is approaching the home
| stretch in its dash to end the current
| term, and it's a period when the big
| pending decisions start to emerge. But not
| this morning.
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/06/another-bilskifree-day-at-the-supreme-court.html
Waiting for Bilski
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| Unless and until the Supreme Court
| reverses the Federal Circuit decision in
| Bilski, applicants should take the interim
| instructions into account when drafting
| and prosecuting patent applications. For
| example, a process claim should pass
| muster under the interim instructions if
| it recites that non-trivial steps are
| performed by a computer or microprocessor,
| or if it specifically identifies
| electronic data by indicating what the
| data represents, the particular type or
| nature of the data, and/or how or from
| where the data is obtained and recites a
| change in the nature of the data such that
| it has a different function or is suitable
| for a different use. In addition,
| applicants may wish to include the term
| ânon-transitoryâ in claims directed to a
| computer-readable medium, to avoid a
| possible rejection under Section 101.
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http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4805c288-0d3b-4b56-8ed1-c410e65bd896
Lawyers.
Recent:
No Bilski Opinion from the US Supreme Court Today. June 21 Next Possible Day
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| No opinion on In Re Bilski will issue today.
| The next possibility is June 21.
|
| Opinions today were in Dillon v. United
| States, Schwab v. Reilly, Ontario v. Quon,
| Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v.
| Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection
| and New Process Steel, L. P. v. NLRB. All
| are available at the link as PDFs, and there
| are some highlights by Tony Mauro on
| Law.com.
|
| According to SCOTUSblog, Schwab was the last
| undecided case, except for Bilski, argued
| during the last November session.
|
| I don't know about you, but the suspense is
| killing me.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100617102220583
â Freedom and Secrets
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| Not only is the patent system broken (it has
| forgotten to protect the public good in
| return for granting a temporary monopoly),
| but it turns out that thousands of the
| things are kept secret.
|
| Shaped for an analog age where businesses
| were control points in a disconnected
| society, patents have become sinkholes for
| money an innovation in the connected digital
| age, allowing unjust monopolisation and
| chilling of network effects.
|
| We are /so/ overdue reform of the patent
| system, in the UK, the US and pretty much
| everywhere else.
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http://webmink.com/2010/06/17/links-for-2010-06-17/
Tuxera dresses embedded Linux for convergence
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| While it has drawn some controversy for its
| IP deal with Microsoft, Tuxera says this
| allows it to benefit from the ability to
| offer support, integration and licensing for
| both NTFS and exFAT filesystems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/06/16/tuxera-dresses-embedded-linux-for-convergence/
Bilski Decision Watch
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| They are probably right to be. A delay
| this long in the decision most likely
| means that the Court is waiting until the
| end of the term to release it - which they
| traditionally do for what the Justices
| consider to be their most important and/or
| far reaching decisions of the year.
|
| It may also be the case that there are
| either important dissents or concurring
| opinions on the case, thus prompting a
| delay with back and forth rewrites and
| revisions to the final decisions. (Though
| one should recall that at oral arguments,
| the Justices seemed universally critical
| to the idea of broad-based business method
| patents.)
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000003049
And I thought patents encouraged innovation
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000003046
Mailing Out Patent Absurdity
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| On the eve of re: Bilski, the anxiously
| awaited Supreme Court decision on business
| method patents (with potential
| implications for software patents), I
| decided to collaborate with the End
| Software Patents coalition and send out
| 200 copies of the short movie they
| recently produced called Patent Absurdity
| about why software should not be able to
| be patented to a focused list of key
| people. The letter follows.
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http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/06/mailing-out-patent-absurdity.html
Mailing Out Patent Absurdity
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=358&bpid=25296
Patent Absurdity mailed to 200 policy setters
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| Venture capitalist Brad Feld has mailed a
| copy of Patent Absurdity to 200 policy
| setters in the USA (see Who should see
| Patent Absurdity?). The 200 are
| influential people in companies, standards
| groups, academia, and the relevent
| political committees.
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http://news.swpat.org/2010/06/patent-absurdity-mailed-to-200-policy-setters/
Venture Capitalists Lobby Against Software Patents
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| ciaran_o_riordan writes "No matter which
| side the US Supreme Court's Bilski
| decision pleases, it will be just the
| beginning of the software patent debate in
| the USA â the other side will start a
| legislative battle. The lobbying has
| already begun, with venture capitalist
| Brad Feld arguing against software
| patents, mailing a copy of Patent
| Absurdity to 200 patent policy setters. As
| Feld puts it, 'Specifically, I'm hoping
| the film will bring you to an
| understanding of why patents on software
| are a massive tax on and retardant of
| innovation in the US.' The patent lawyers
| and big patent holders often tell us that
| patents are needed to secure investment,
| so it's interesting to see now that
| venture capitalists are refuting that. And
| Brad Feld isn't the only vocal one;
| there's a growing list."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/07/1930220/Venture-Capitalists-Lobby-Against-Software-Patents
Bilski leaves us waiting
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/06/01/Bilski-leaves-us-waiting.aspx
Bilski Sets the Patent Pondering Record
http://www.investingcontrarian.com/global/bilski-sets-the-patent-pondering-record/
More concern over synthetic biology patents
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| The piece, which was originally published in
| the Financial Times, follows earlier
| criticism from Nobel laureate John Sulston,
| PhD, that such patents could be "extremely
| damaging."
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http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/archives/2010/06/synthetic-biology-patents.html
No Bilski Blockbuster from Supreme Court Today
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| The Supreme Court handed down two
| relatively low-profile decisions this
| morning, leaving to another day some of the
| most-awaited cases of the term like Bilski
| v. Kappos, the business-methods patent-
| eligibility case that was argued last Nov.
| 9. The Court won't be in session again
| until May 17.
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/05/no-bilski-blockbuster-from-supreme-court-today.html
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