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Going Solo
http://www.patenthawk.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ going_solo.htmlLast month, seven major telecommunications patent holders: Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson, agreed to limit patent licensing fees, so as to engender continuing evolution of 3G mobile technologies, and limit litigation.
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STS and IP: Innovation networks
http://tushnet.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ sts-and-ip-innovation-networks.htmlSession 6: Papers by Dana Wang (“Constructing and Objectivating Information: The Identification, Sourcing and Meaning of Information in Reference Lists Found in Patents”) and Katherine Strandburg (“Users as Innovators: Implications for Patent Doctrine”) Wang: Studies the meanings of manmade objects.
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STS and IP: Patent narratives
http://tushnet.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ sts-and-ip-patent-narratives.htmlSession 5: Papers by Henry Huang (“Reevaluating Science in Patent Law: Lessons From the Historiography of Science”) and Dan Burk (“Patent Law’s Black Box: How Intellectual Property Aligns Creative Networks”) The usual patent-related caveats apply: not my field; I may have missed rather a lot.
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Feathering the Nest for Inventors
http://www.patenthawk.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ summing_up_feathering_the_nest.htmlSensible patent reform should focus on feathering the nest for inventors in the United States. There is nothing more important to our long-term prospects within the global economy. To summarize the posts made this week: IP is a limited exclusive right to an inventor's time, not a limited exclusive right to a thing.
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No cure for costly medicines? Draft law affirms patent rights of drug firms
http://www.pcij.org/ blog/ ?p=2315No cure for costly medicines? Draft law affirms patent rights of drug firms Posted by: Alecks P. Pabico | May 12, 2008 at 1:08 am Filed under: i Report Features, Public Health, Congress Watch PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected to sign into law this week the recently ratified cheaper
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The Role of Novell et al in Stifling EC Rulings Stresses GPLv3’s Need
http://boycottnovell.com/ 2008/ 05/ 11/ stifling-ec-ruling/The Role of Novell et al in Stifling EC Rulings Stresses GPLv3’s Need Posted in Microsoft, GNU/Linux, Novell, Patents, Europe, Antitrust, FOSS at 2:05 am by Roy Schestowitz
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Microsoft + Government + Patent Troll Push Against Free Software
http://boycottnovell.com/ 2008/ 05/ 10/ patent-trolls-laws-vs-foss/Microsoft + Government + Patent Troll Push Against Free Software Posted in Microsoft, GNU/Linux, Patents, Europe at 12:08 pm by Roy Schestowitz Obligatory NO-FUD Clarification/Disclaimer: Knowing the threat and recognising foes makes you more defensible, less uncertain, and less vulnerable In this
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STS and IP: plants and genes (and authorship)
http://tushnet.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ sts-and-ip-plants-and-genes-and.htmlKeynote Talk: Mario Biagioli (“The Author as Vegetable: Environmental Metaphors in the Discourse of the Commons and the Public Domain”) Interested in organic/environmental tone of images, not just rhetoric but almost a necessity of a movement that defines itself as being about protecting.
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Software Patents, Microsoft Trolls and Intellectual Monopoly Miscellany
http://boycottnovell.com/ 2008/ 05/ 09/ intellectual-monopoly-miscellany/Software Patents, Microsoft Trolls and Intellectual Monopoly Miscellany Posted in Microsoft, DRM, Patents, Asia at 11:49 pm by Roy Schestowitz Can’t compete? Buy new laws to ban the competition. The intellectual insanity resumes. Let’s take a quick look at some highlights from the news.
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Science and Technology Studies and IP
http://tushnet.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ science-and-technology-studies-and-ip.htm…Science & Technology Studies (STS) and IP Law, St. Helena, CA May 9-10, 2008 Session 1: Papers by Brett Frischmann (“Intellectual Infrastructure and Commons”) and Mike Madison (“Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment: A Theoretical Framework and Research Agenda”) Frischmann’s book project brings together his work on infrastructure.